MySpd vs Network Hamster
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MySpd
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MySpd measures download and upload speed, ping and jitter, with local history and support for English and Arabic. Understand your connection • Download and upload speed in Mbps or MB/s • Idle latency, jitter and latency during download and upload • Estimated round trips per minute (RPM) and an A–F stability grade when enough loaded-latency measurements are available • Estimates for 4K streaming, video calls and online gaming • Network provider, IP address and test-server information when available • Wi-Fi and cellular connection detection RPM is derived from latency under load; it is not a full IETF responsiveness test. Suitability indicators are estimates, not guarantees. Results depend on your device, network conditions and the route to the test service. History on your device View saved results, filter by Wi-Fi or cellular, and explore speed trends. If history cannot open or a result cannot be saved, the app tells you and provides recovery guidance. No accounts, ads, analytics or third-party crash reporting. Test traffic goes directly to Cloudflare, which receives your IP address and test requests under its own privacy practices. MySpd does not send your saved history or a completed results report to the developer or Cloudflare. See our privacy policy for details. Choose Quick or Standard testing and switch between Arabic and English in the app. Tests use mobile data when run on cellular; usage and duration vary. Version 1.2 uses a dark interface.
Network Hamster
Diagnose internet issues with a real-time visual indicator and detailed diagnostics. Understand your network's performance, identify bottlenecks like bufferbloat, and generate shareable reports to prove problems to your ISP.
- One-tap network diagnosis
- Bufferbloat grading and fixes
- Live ping, jitter, packet loss monitoring
- Speed test with history
- Router vs. internet fault isolation
- Advanced tools like MTR and Ping Lab
- Shareable diagnostic reports
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Your internet is acting up. Is it your Wi-Fi? Your router? Your ISP? Network Hamster tells you — in plain English. A helmeted hamster pedals a bicycle in real time, matched to your actual latency. Fast connection, fast pedaling. Congested network, and he grinds to a crawl. It's the most honest status indicator you'll ever install. Behind the mascot is a genuinely serious diagnostic toolkit. ONE-TAP DIAGNOSIS Tap Diagnose and get eight checks in under a minute: interface, captive portal, your router versus the internet, NAT topology, DNS, web response time, and latency under load. Then a verdict in words you can act on — "Local network is healthy, high latency is upstream. Your router is not the problem." BUFFERBLOAT GRADING The reason your video calls stutter when someone downloads something. Network Hamster measures how much your latency balloons under load and grades it A+ through F, then tells you exactly how to fix it. FIND OUT WHERE YOU STAND • Live ping, jitter, packet loss, and p95 latency across six rotating servers • Speed test with download, upload, and bufferbloat, plus saved history • Router vs. internet isolation — know instantly whose fault it is • CGNAT, double NAT, and symmetric NAT detection • DNS benchmarking against Cloudflare, Google, and Quad9 ADVANCED TOOLS • Monitor Mode — ping every second for hours, graph the whole session, get alerted the moment your connection drops, and export CSV • MTR traceroute with per-hop whois, reverse DNS, and a map of where your packets actually travel • Ping Lab — test with different packet sizes to expose MTU and queueing problems • Buffer Probe — detects undersized modem buffers that quietly cost you the bandwidth you pay for • Wireless Health — tells you whether jitter is born on your Wi-Fi or upstream • Wi-Fi Guard — catches repeated forced disconnects • Inbound Watch — spots unusual traffic arriving at your device • Cellular coverage mapping and DNS record lookup PROVE IT TO YOUR ISP Every diagnosis exports as a shareable report: latency per server, packet loss, traceroute, bufferbloat grade, and a timestamped event log. Stop arguing from memory. Paste the evidence. BUILT HONESTLY Some things iOS simply does not allow — Wi-Fi signal strength, raw packet capture, cell tower identity. Network Hamster never fakes them. Where a limit exists, the app says so and does the most useful thing that is actually possible. No account. No tracking. No data collection. Just a hamster who is very concerned about your ping.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Network Hamster at every 3 days against MySpd's every 2 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
MySpd ships an update every 2 months, Network Hamster every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MySpd | Network Hamster |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | hamam alabdulla | HarborViewIT, LLC |
In-app purchases
MySpd
No in-app purchases
Network Hamster
No in-app purchases






