Comparison

NasScale vs Network Tools

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β€” with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

NasScale

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NasScale is an iPhone client for people who own their own NAS. With built-in Tailscale, you can reach Synology NAS devices on your Tailnet without installing a separate Tailscale appβ€”manage files, transfers and downloads, play media remotely, and work with common packages and self-hosted services. What you can do: β€’ Connect to Synology DSM and view system, storage, and package status β€’ Browse and manage files via File Station, SMB, SFTP, or FTP β€’ Upload, download, and preview files, and manage transfer tasks β€’ Play media remotely (AVPlayer first, MPV when needed) β€’ Optionally connect Immich, Jellyfin, and similar self-hosted services β€’ Optionally manage qBittorrent, Aria2, Transmission, and similar download clients

About

Network Tools

Features
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A network engineer's toolkit that runs entirely on your iPhone. Seventeen tools, no account, no server of ours, and nothing about you collected. THE TOOLS β€’ Ping β€” ICMP latency and packet loss, with a live chart β€’ Traceroute β€” the hop-by-hop path, each router named β€’ LAN scan β€” every device on your subnet, named and identified: routers, NAS boxes, printers, Macs, phones β€’ Port scan β€” TCP connect scan with banners and service names, from a handful of ports to all 65535 β€’ DNS β€” your own wire-format resolver: every record type at once, any public resolver you choose, DNS-over-HTTPS, reverse lookups, and a comparison mode that queries five resolvers and flags the one that disagrees β€’ HTTP check β€” status, redirect chain, the DNS/connect/TLS/TTFB split, security headers β€’ TLS β€” the full certificate chain, expiry, SANs, cipher suite, and whether the system trusts it β€’ WHOIS β€” the referral chain followed to the registrar that actually holds the record β€’ Wi-Fi β€” link quality graded against local thresholds, and a walking survey that compares rooms β€’ Speed test β€” download, upload, latency and jitter, against Cloudflare or a URL you name β€’ iperf3 β€” throughput against your own iperf3 server, up or down, multi-stream β€’ IP calculator β€” CIDR maths, masks, host ranges, binary, and subnet division including VLSM β€’ MAC lookup β€” 39,000 vendor prefixes, bundled and fully offline β€’ Wake on LAN β€” the magic packet, sent to every address that might reach a sleeping machine β€’ Network interfaces β€” addresses, subnets, flags and live throughput β€’ Telnet β€” a raw TCP terminal for switches, PDUs and console servers β€’ SSH β€” see below A REAL SSH CLIENT Not a wrapper. The protocol is implemented in Swift, and it does the things you actually need from a phone: β€’ Jump hosts β€” reach a machine behind one bastion or several, each hop with its own account, its own credential and its own host key to confirm β€’ Port forwarding β€” bind a local port to a service on the far side, then open it in a browser inside the app: a router's web interface, a database, a dashboard listening only on the server's loopback β€’ scp β€” send a file up or pull one down, straight to the Files app β€’ ssh-copy-id β€” put your public key in a server's authorized_keys without a second terminal β€’ Keys β€” generate ed25519 on the device, or import ed25519, ECDSA and RSA in OpenSSH or PEM form, protected or not. Private keys live in the Keychain and can be exported under a passphrase when you need them elsewhere β€’ Snippets β€” the commands you always type, one tap above the keyboard β€’ A proper terminal β€” a real VT/xterm emulator, so vim and htop work, with esc, ctrl, alt, arrows and F-keys on a row of their own

Screenshots

NasScale4 screens
Network Tools4 screens

Verdict

The call

NasScale and Network Tools are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters β€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them β€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
NasScale versus Network Tools: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNasScaleNetwork Tools
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 8 daysβ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.0 β€” better18.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size68 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerθ΄Ί ι»„Pavel Khorenian

In-app purchases

None

NasScale

No in-app purchases

None

Network Tools

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is NasScale free?
NasScale is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Network Tools free?
Network Tools is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do NasScale or Network Tools have ads?
Neither NasScale nor Network Tools shows ads.

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