Comparison

Gnip vs SpokPass

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

Head to head
About

Gnip

Features
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Gnip is a network toolkit with a modern terminal interface. COMMANDS myip Your local and public IP addresses, connection type, and carrier. speedtest Download and upload throughput across parallel streams, with latency sampled while the transfer is running rather than only at idle. lanscan Finds devices on your network using an ICMP sweep, TCP connects, the ARP table, and Bonjour discovery. Lists IP address, hardware vendor, device name, and open ports. Add --diff to see only what changed since your last scan, including devices that moved to a new address. mtr Traceroute and ping in a single view that keeps updating, so you can see which hop is dropping packets over time. ping Round-trip time, TTL, packet loss, and jitter, with a sparkline of recent samples. traceroute The route to a host, hop by hop, with timing for each. tcping Connection latency to a specific TCP port, for networks where ICMP is filtered but the service still responds. dig DNS over HTTPS through Cloudflare, Google, or Quad9. Returns full record sets with their TTLs. ifconfig and arp Interfaces, addresses and subnet masks, plus the ARP table with hardware vendor names. weather, just for fun Active warnings and watches first, then current conditions and a short forecast. Requests are kept small so it still loads on a weak connection. THE SHELL Flags behave the way they do on a workstation: -c 5, -c5, --count 5, --count=5, grouped short flags, and -- to stop parsing. Tab completes command names, the history recalls what you ran, and man command prints the full option list. Buttons above the prompt run any command without typing. PRIVACY Gnip has no accounts, no ads, and no analytics, and there are no servers behind it. Scan results and command history stay on your device. Location is used by one command, weather, at approximate accuracy while the app is open. You can supply coordinates yourself instead with weather --coords.

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SpokPass

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YOUR PASSWORDS ARE ENCRYPTED BEFORE THEY LEAVE YOUR PHONE. Every password manager says something like this. SpokPass lets you check it. Open the app, tap "See how it looks", and watch the line at the bottom of the login screen: that is literally what goes to our server. A block starting with "sp1." and nothing readable after it. No title, no site, no username, no password, no notes. WHAT THE SERVER ACTUALLY KNOWS When a record was last changed. Which folder it sits in. That is the complete list. WHY WE CAN'T READ YOUR VAULT The key is derived from your master password, on your device, and never leaves it. We don't hold a copy, a backup, or a recovery override. This isn't a policy we could quietly change in a future update โ€” it's the shape of the product. BUILT THE SLOW WAY, ON PURPOSE โ€ข Argon2id with 64 MiB of memory. Deliberately expensive, so your master password can't be guessed millions of times per second on rented graphics cards. โ€ข AES-256-GCM. Change one bit of a stored block and it refuses to open, instead of quietly returning something wrong. โ€ข Search runs on your device, after decryption. A search index on our side would leak exactly what we promised never to see. FACE ID AND TOUCH ID The vault key goes into your phone's Secure Enclave and comes out only for your face or fingerprint. It never touches the network and is never written to ordinary storage. A GENERATOR THAT KNOWS ABOUT BAD FORMS Random passwords, created on your device. The symbol set leaves out quotes, apostrophes and backslashes โ€” precisely the characters that sloppy sign-up forms strip in silence, leaving you with a saved password that no longer matches the site. IN YOUR LANGUAGE, NOT JUST IN ENGLISH Romanian, English, German, French, Italian, Russian, Arabic and Chinese โ€” the whole app, not a machine-translated menu. Arabic reads right to left, the way it should. Switch language from the lock screen, before you even sign in. THE PART NOBODY ADVERTISES If you forget your master password and lose your recovery kit, your vault is gone. Permanently. There is no "forgot password, email me a link", because we have nothing to open it with. That is the exact same property that stops anyone else from opening it. We would rather you read this now than discover it later. YOUR DATA IS NOT OUR HOSTAGE Export everything, any time, in an open format โ€” including after you stop paying. A password manager you cannot walk away from is a trap, not a product. SpokPass works with a SpokPass account. SUBSCRIPTIONS SpokPass Personal โ€” monthly or yearly, for one person. SpokPass Familie โ€” monthly or yearly, for up to 6 people. The price is shown in the app, in your country's currency. Subscriptions renew automatically unless turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the period, in Settings โ†’ your Apple Account โ†’ Subscriptions. Terms of Use: https://spokpass.ro/en/terms Privacy Policy: https://spokpass.ro/en/privacy

Screenshots

Gnip4 screens
SpokPass4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Gnip at none against SpokPass's 4. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

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. SpokPass sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Gnip asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
Gnip versus SpokPass: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGnipSpokPass
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyโ€”Every 2 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.416.4
Further details โ€” not scored
Size31 MB46 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChris GreningerOCTAV - VIOREL ENE

In-app purchases

None

Gnip

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

SpokPass

Subscriptions4
  • SpokPass Personal$4.991 Month
  • SpokPass Family$7.991 Month
  • SpokPass Personal Yearly$49.991 Year
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  • SpokPass Family Yearly$79.991 Year

Questions

Is Gnip free?
Gnip is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SpokPass free?
SpokPass is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Gnip or SpokPass have ads?
Neither Gnip nor SpokPass shows ads.

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