Network Tools vs DNS/HTTP Tester
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Network Tools
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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 • Ping — ICMP latency and packet loss, with a live chart • Traceroute — the hop-by-hop path, each router named • LAN scan — every device on your subnet, named and identified: routers, NAS boxes, printers, Macs, phones • Port scan — TCP connect scan with banners and service names, from a handful of ports to all 65535 • DNS — 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 • HTTP check — status, redirect chain, the DNS/connect/TLS/TTFB split, security headers • TLS — the full certificate chain, expiry, SANs, cipher suite, and whether the system trusts it • WHOIS — the referral chain followed to the registrar that actually holds the record • Wi-Fi — link quality graded against local thresholds, and a walking survey that compares rooms • Speed test — download, upload, latency and jitter, against Cloudflare or a URL you name • iperf3 — throughput against your own iperf3 server, up or down, multi-stream • IP calculator — CIDR maths, masks, host ranges, binary, and subnet division including VLSM • MAC lookup — 39,000 vendor prefixes, bundled and fully offline • Wake on LAN — the magic packet, sent to every address that might reach a sleeping machine • Network interfaces — addresses, subnets, flags and live throughput • Telnet — a raw TCP terminal for switches, PDUs and console servers • SSH — 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: • Jump hosts — reach a machine behind one bastion or several, each hop with its own account, its own credential and its own host key to confirm • Port forwarding — 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 • scp — send a file up or pull one down, straight to the Files app • ssh-copy-id — put your public key in a server's authorized_keys without a second terminal • Keys — 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 • Snippets — the commands you always type, one tap above the keyboard • A proper terminal — a real VT/xterm emulator, so vim and htop work, with esc, ctrl, alt, arrows and F-keys on a row of their own
DNS/HTTP Tester
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DNS/HTTP Tester — a complete network diagnostic toolkit wrapped in a nostalgic retro '90s desktop interface. Built for developers, sysadmins, and IT professionals who want fast answers, with no accounts, no ads, and no tracking. CORE TOOLS ▸ DNS Lookup — A, AAAA, MX, TXT, CNAME, NS, SOA records ▸ DNS Propagation — check across 5 global resolvers, with an "Is it down or just me?" verdict ▸ HTTP Header Inspector — status, security headers, CORS, compression, response time ▸ SSL Certificate Checker — expiry, issuer, alt names, protocol ▸ DNSSEC Validation — verify the AD flag ▸ Whois Lookup — registrar, key dates, nameservers ▸ Hosting & Location — country, city, ASN, organization ▸ Ping / Latency — visual response-time graph ▸ Tech Fingerprint — detect CDN, WAF, server, and framework DOMAIN AUDIT — all in one place ▸ Health Score — a weighted A–F grade with a full checklist (DNS, HTTPS, TLS, HSTS, CSP, DNSSEC, email…) ▸ Subdomain Discovery — from Certificate Transparency logs ▸ Email Security — SPF, DMARC, DKIM and MX analysis STAY ON TOP OF CHANGES ▸ Network Status — run a full health check on any domain at once ▸ Watchlist — track domains and spot IP, status or certificate changes between checks ▸ Query History — your last 50 lookups, stored locally ▸ Export & Share — save any report as TXT, JSON or CSV, or share a health report card NATIVE iOS EXTRAS ▸ Home-screen & Lock Screen Widget — live status + certificate countdown, with an interactive in-widget Recheck ▸ Siri Shortcuts & App Intents — Check DNS, Check SSL, Run Audit by voice ▸ Share extension — audit any URL straight from Safari ▸ Compare two domains side by side, or Batch-check many at once ▸ Watchlist trends & on-device certificate-expiry alerts ▸ More records: CAA / SRV / PTR · email BIMI / MTA-STS / TLS-RPT · HTTP/2 & HTTP/3 detection PRIVACY FIRST No account required. No ads. No tracking. No data sent to our servers. Everything runs on your device — DNS queries go straight to public resolvers, and only the domain name is sent. BUILT TO ENJOY ▸ Authentic retro '90s desktop aesthetic, right down to the dial-up boot ▸ 16 languages ▸ 2 themes: Classic + High Contrast One-time purchase. No subscription.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Network Tools at Free against DNS/HTTP Tester's $0.99. DNS/HTTP Tester's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs every 3 weeks) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On 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
Network Tools is free to download; DNS/HTTP Tester costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Network Tools ships an update every 3 weeks, DNS/HTTP Tester every 6 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Network Tools | DNS/HTTP Tester |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pavel Khorenian | Juraj Mudroch |
In-app purchases
Network Tools
No in-app purchases
DNS/HTTP Tester
No in-app purchases
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