Comparison

CellMap vs Bug Detector

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

Head to head
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CellMap

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Your carrier says you have 5G. Your video keeps buffering. Who's right? CellMap puts the truth on a map. When you tired of dropped calls in your apartment, want to know which SIM actually performs better or you're driving cross-country and want to see exactly where coverage fell apart - CellMap is the tool that turns "my internet feels slow" into real numbers, real locations and real answers. SEE YOUR COVERAGE, EVERYWHERE YOU GO Every speed test and ping you run gets pinned to the map with a color that actually means something - green when your network is flying, red when it's struggling. Turn on drive-test mode and app quietly logs a point every time you move, even with the app closed, building a personal coverage map of everywhere you go. No other app does this from your own real-world data. REAL SPEED TESTS. NOT ESTIMATES. CellMap downloads and uploads actual bytes over your live connection and measures how fast they move. You get download speed, upload speed and a clean animated gauge that updates in real time as the test runs. No gimmicks, no made-up numbers. PING TEST THAT ACTUALLY PINGS This isn't a fake latency estimate. App sends real ICMP echo requests - the same thing your Mac's Terminal does when you type ping - and gives you min, avg, max, jitter and packet loss across 10 packets. Choose between Cloudflare (1.1.1.1), Google (8.8.8.8) or Quad9 (9.9.9.9). DUAL-SIM CARRIER COMPARISON Have two SIMs or an eSIM? App shows both active lines side by side with their current radio generation. And over time as you log more measurements a carrier ranking builds up automatically - so you can see with your own data which carrier actually performs better at the places you care about not the places carriers put in their ads. BACKGROUND DRIVE-TEST LOGGING Enable it once drive anywhere and open the app later. App will have logged coverage points the whole time - pinging the network quietly as you move and tagging each point to your exact location. Great for road trips, commutes or finding out once and for all where your signal disappears on the way to work. EXPORT EVERYTHING Every measurement you've ever taken exports to a CSV file - open in Excel, Numbers or Google Sheets. Timestamp, coordinates, carrier, network type, download, upload, ping, jitter, packet loss, quality rating. Your data, yours to keep. BEAUTIFUL AND HONEST App is upfront about what iOS lets apps measure and what it doesn't. It won't show you fake signal bars, so no app that claims otherwise is being straight with you. What app shows is what it actually measured: real throughput, real latency, real location. Perfect for: - Remote workers who need to know if a coffee shop will actually support a video call - People switching carriers and wanting real proof of which is better - Road trippers and van lifers mapping coverage before they go off-grid - Anyone who's ever said "my internet is terrible here" and wanted to prove it Privacy Policy: https://policy-6ef9d.web.app/ Terms of Use: https://terms-345fd.web.app/

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Bug Detector

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Stakeout is a listening stakeout. You put the phone down, walk away, and come back to a timestamped tape of the steady tones it heard in the near-ultrasonic band โ€” the range above ordinary hearing that a phone microphone can still sample. WHAT IT ACTUALLY DOES There is no live spectrum in this app. No waterfall, no decibel meter, no needle to watch. That is deliberate. A meter tells you about the instant you happen to be looking at it; a tape tells you what happened while you were not in the room. The running screen is a session clock and a log, and the output is evidence with timestamps. TEST YOUR OWN PHONE FIRST Before a session, run the self-test. Stakeout plays 16, 18, 20 and 21 kHz through the speaker, measures what your microphone returns, and prints the measured response for each one. Not a spec sheet copied from somewhere โ€” your handset, in your room, at your volume. Microphone response above 20 kHz varies enormously between phones, so the honest thing is to measure it and show you, rather than promise a flat response nobody can guarantee. THE TAPE Every row is one event: the wall-clock time it started, the frequency, how long it held, and how far above the room's own noise it sat. Times are zero-padded and absolute โ€” never "3 minutes ago" โ€” because a log you might act on needs real timestamps. Tones that stop and restart are folded into one row with a count, so a pulsing source reads as one finding rather than forty. A tone has to hold for at least two seconds to be logged at all. That single rule removes almost everything a room throws at a microphone: a chair scraping, a door, a cough, a passing car. THE UNVERIFIED BAND The region above 20 kHz is drawn differently and labelled unverified, because that is the truth: it sits where phone microphones start to roll off and where your particular handset may hear nothing at all. The self-test is what tells you which side of that line you are on. WHAT YOU GET FREE - The full near-ultrasonic detector, 15 to 22 kHz - Sessions up to 15 minutes - Three saved tapes - The loopback self-test, unlimited - Steady tones in the audible band logged as events WHAT PRO ADDS - Sessions with no time limit, running all night - Every tape kept, not only your last three - Export a tape as plain text, timestamps and all - Detection strictness: loose, standard or strict BEING HONEST ABOUT THE LIMITS A phone cannot scan the radio spectrum. It cannot detect an analogue transmitter, and it cannot find a wired or fully passive microphone โ€” those things emit nothing a microphone can hear. Any app claiming otherwise is selling you a feeling. What a phone can do is listen very carefully, in a band you cannot. A tone in your tape is something worth explaining. It is not, on its own, proof of surveillance โ€” ultrasonic tones also come from motion sensors, some televisions, rodent repellers, cleaning equipment and a surprising number of ordinary appliances. The app gives you the evidence and the timestamps; the conclusion is yours. PRIVACY No account, no sign-up, no analytics and no tracking. Audio is analysed live on the device and is never recorded, saved or uploaded โ€” the tape holds numbers, not sound. The only connection the app makes is the subscription check with the App Store. SUBSCRIPTION Stakeout Pro is $3.99 per week with a 3-day free trial, or $17.99 per year. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscription in your App Store account settings. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when you buy a subscription. Privacy Policy: https://leomarston.github.io/manycode-legal/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

CellMap4 screens
Bug Detector4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. CellMap sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days and Bug Detector sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
CellMap versus Bug Detector: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCellMapBug Detector
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.017.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size2 MB15 MB
Age rating+44+
DeveloperLarysa KoltsovaEmine Saridogan

In-app purchases

2 purchases

CellMap

Subscriptions2
  • Unlock CellMap Pro$3.997 Days
  • Unlock CellMap Pro$49.991 Year
2 purchases

Bug Detector

Subscriptions2
  • Weekly3 Days trial$3.997 Days
  • Yearly$17.991 Year

Questions

Is CellMap free?
CellMap is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Bug Detector free?
Bug Detector is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do CellMap or Bug Detector have ads?
Neither CellMap nor Bug Detector shows ads.

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