Network Scanner Toolkit vs School Bus Home
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Network Scanner Toolkit
This app helps you discover all devices connected to your WiFi network, providing details like name, IP, and MAC address. It offers a suite of network diagnostic tools, including subnet calculators, port scanners, and DNS lookups, all within a user-friendly interface designed for larger screens.
- Device discovery (name, IP, MAC, manufacturer)
- Network diagnostic tools (subnet, port scan, traceroute)
- DNS lookup and Whois
- Bonjour and Network Info
- Optimized for iPad and iPhone Duo
- History of scans and tests
- Find Cameras and MAC Explorer (Pro)
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See every device on your WiFi. Free — no ads, no subscription. Now on iPad and built for iPhone Duo. Network Scanner Toolkit finds everything on your network in seconds: name, IP, MAC address and manufacturer (iOS 27+) — even devices that hide from ping. Devices tell you what they are: Apple TV, HomePod, Chromecast, printers, HomeKit and Matter gear, Sonos, Fire TV, Windows PCs, NAS boxes and more. Capability tags show which are pingable, run a web interface, speak Bonjour, UPnP or Matter, or are your gateway. Filter by Web UI, SSH, file shares, printers, TVs, smart home or cameras. Tap a device to ping it, open its admin page, connect over SSH, VNC or SMB, rename or favorite it. New devices are flagged automatically. Made for big screens. On iPad and the iPhone Duo the scanner becomes three columns — past scans, device list and full details side by side — and the tools spread into two panes. Stand the Duo up like a laptop and every tool splits across the hinge: graph, map or results on top, controls below. Fold, unfold or rotate and nothing is lost. A full network toolbox — free: • LAN Scanner — fast sweep with naming over Bonjour, NetBIOS, WS-Discovery and SNMP; models and manufacturers, custom names & icons, new-device badges, filters, quick-connect. Scans Wi-Fi, Personal Hotspot or wired, and keeps going after you leave the app (iOS 26+). • Subnet Tools — IPv4 and IPv6. Type any address with a prefix, netmask or wildcard and get the whole answer on one card: network, broadcast, host range, counts, type with its RFC, binary with host bits highlighted. Then explore: child subnets on a visual map, VLSM planner, overlap checker, supernet, membership test, range-to-CIDR, config lines, IPv6 forms, netmask table. Siri Shortcut included. • Port Scanner — presets, custom ranges, or all 65,535 ports • Traceroute — every hop geolocated on a live map with latency charts • Ping — live graph, configurable payload size and interval • DNS Lookup — A, AAAA, MX, TXT, CNAME, NS, SOA, PTR, SRV, HTTPS & SVCB records, custom resolvers, DNSSEC check • Whois — modern RDAP lookups for domains, IPs and AS numbers, with classic WHOIS referral chasing as the fallback • Bonjour Monitor — watch services appear and disappear live • Network Info — IP, router, DNS, IPv6, data usage, SSID, and a Router card that names your router, shows its WAN address and tells you whether you're Direct, behind Double NAT or on Carrier-grade NAT, in plain English • History — every scan and test saved automatically; reopen scans as fully interactive device lists Toolkit Pro — one purchase, yours forever: • Find Cameras — sweep for security cameras using RTSP, ONVIF, camera web interfaces hree-tier confidence ratings. Know what's watching on any WiFi you join. • MAC Explorer — paste any MAC in any format and see its vendor, IEEE registry block, address bits, reserved uses, every notation and the IPv6 address it implies. Name devices yourself and search the registry by maker. • Speed Test — live download and upload graphs in Mbps and MB/s, your latency idle vs. under load with a bufferbloat grade from A+ to F, and your ISP • Security Audit — find exposed or insecure services on every device and ports your rrnet, with a fix for each finding and an A–F grade • Bluetooth Scanner — see nearby Bluetooth LE devices with signal strength, maker and type; locate one with the hot/cold Find meter or the radar view • Wake-on-LAN — wake your PC or NAS from the couch • Export & share — CSV and PDF reports of any scan or test; Whois and DNS results as text, JSON or CSV • Themes — Phosphor, Amber, Synthwave and more Private by design. No account, no analytics, no tracking. Whether you're a network engineer, a tinkerer, or just want to know what that mystery device is doing... Download free. Upgrade once if you want the Pro tools.
School Bus Home
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School Bus Home is for working parents whose kids get home from school before they do. Pick your entry cameras or video doorbell (up to four), set an after-school window and an "expected by" time on school days, and get a calm alert when a school bus is detected. Turn on the optional morning window and you also get a note when a school bus is seen in the morning. WHAT YOU GET • School-bus detection — on motion or a doorbell press inside your window, the app checks up to three still images from your camera for a US yellow school bus • The proof — the one snapshot that confirmed the bus is kept for 31 days; open it from Today or History • No-bus heads-up — one gentle, amber note if no school bus has been detected by your expected-by time (after school only) • Late update — one follow-up if the bus is confirmed after the heads-up • Optional morning window — off until you switch it on: one "School bus seen this morning" note with the time, and nothing else • Today, a 31-day History, Schedule, Alerts and Account, the same as on the web dashboard • Skip today and Pause for half days and school breaks • Send test alert — check delivery any time HONEST BY DESIGN Detection is best-effort: a bus can stop out of camera view, and a snapshot is not always available. An alert reflects what your camera captured; neither an alert nor its absence confirms anyone's whereabouts. School Bus Home is an arrival-awareness convenience, not a childcare, supervision, security, or life-safety service. PRIVACY BY DESIGN Your camera is checked only inside the windows you set, and only as still images — never video, clips or live view. Each image answers one question: is a US yellow school bus visible? The check runs on GPU servers we own and operate in the United Arab Emirates, reached through a reverse proxy hosted for us in Germany that keeps nothing; if our servers are unreachable, the same question goes to Anthropic Claude via Amazon Bedrock. Images without a school bus are discarded at once. The one that confirms a bus is kept for 31 days, private to your account, and deleted with it. The app never identifies people, and nothing is used to train AI models. HOW IT WORKS Link your account in seconds with a passwordless email code, choose your entry cameras and confirm your window — about two minutes. Requires a Ring account with at least one camera or video doorbell in the United States, with cloud recording active on the entry camera. Alerts arrive by email and push. School Bus Home is an independent app. Ring is a trademark of Ring LLC; School Bus Home is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Ring LLC or Amazon.com, Inc. Support: info@erbacciltd.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: School Bus Home at none against Network Scanner Toolkit's 1. School Bus Home also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 5 weeks) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, ads 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. Network Scanner Toolkit sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. School Bus Home asks for nothing beyond the download.
Network Scanner Toolkit ships an update every 5 weeks, School Bus Home every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Network Scanner Toolkit | School Bus Home |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sawhorn LLC | Nicola Erbacci |
In-app purchases
Network Scanner Toolkit
- Toolkit Pro$1.99
School Bus Home
No in-app purchases
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