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

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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

The clearest difference is update cadence: NasScale at every 8 days against Network Tools's every 3 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

NasScale ships an update every 8 days, Network Tools every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference Β· 5 level
NasScale versus Network Tools: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNasScaleNetwork Tools
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 8 days β€” betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad β€” better
Requires iOS17.0 β€” better18.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size68 MB8 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.
Which is updated more often, NasScale or Network Tools?
NasScale ships an update every 8 days, and Network Tools every 3 weeks. Most recently, NasScale was updated on October 10, 2026 and Network Tools on October 19, 2026.

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