Subnet Plus vs CIDR
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Subnet Plus
Calculate IP subnets with ease on your iPhone or iPad. This tool helps visualize binary and hex information for subnets, aiding in network studies and professional calculations. Save your calculated networks for future reference.
- Subnet calculation
- Save calculated networks
- Binary and hex display
- Network address ranges
- Broadcast IP addresses
- Study aid for networking exams
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Subnet Plus is a fast, beautiful subnet calculator for network engineers, sysadmins, and students — now completely rebuilt for iPhone and iPad. Type any IPv4 or IPv6 address and instantly see the network address, broadcast, usable host range, subnet mask, wildcard mask, prefix length, total and usable hosts, IP class, and address type. A live prefix stepper lets you dial the mask up or down and watch every value update in real time. NETWORK CALCULATIONS • IPv4 and IPv6, auto-detected • Binary view with network/host bits color-coded • Visual address-space map PRO TOOLS • VLSM Designer — carve a network into right-sized subnets and save the plan • CIDR to subnet mask to wildcard converter • Subnet membership — is an address inside a network? • Range to CIDR, and supernet / aggregate • CIDR cheat sheet NETWORK UTILITIES • DNS Lookup — A, AAAA, MX, NS, TXT, CNAME, SOA, SRV, and reverse PTR — using your device's resolver or any IPv4/IPv6 DNS server you add • Ping — round-trip time and packet loss • Traceroute — see the path to any host • Path Monitor (Pro) — a live, MTR-style traceroute with per-hop packet loss and latency • Network Scanner (Pro) — find the active devices on your local network, their names, and open ports • Email Auth — check a domain's SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records SIRI, WIDGETS & APPLE INTELLIGENCE • Explain this — turn any subnet calculation or Email Auth report into a plain-English explanation, generated on-device by Apple Intelligence • Siri & Shortcuts — calculate a subnet, ping a host, check a port, or ask "What's my network?" by voice, and use the same actions in your own Shortcuts • Live Activities — follow Path Monitor and Network Scanner from the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island • Home Screen widget — pin any saved subnet, with a different subnet per widget SAVE & SYNC • Label and save subnets, VLSM plans, and lookups • Everything syncs across your devices with iCloud • Share and export your results Available in 45 languages. Remove ads with a one-time in-app purchase.
CIDR
This utility calculates IP address ranges from an IP address and subnet mask. It supports IPv4 calculations, including prefix display, address range counts, and bit notation. Useful for quick CIDR notation checks and subnet mask conversions.
- IP address range calculation
- Subnet mask to CIDR conversion
- IPv4 prefix display
- Number of address ranges
- Bit notation display
- Quick reference table
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Calculate the IP address range from the IP address and subnet mask. It can be used to calculate IPv4 addresses, including prefix display, number of address ranges, and bit notation. CIDR calculation, when you want to check CIDR notation quickly. To convert subnet mask to CIDR notation. It can also be used as a quick reference table for subnet masks. Bit notation is also available, so it is suitable for learning IPv4.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: CIDR at none against Subnet Plus's shown. CIDR also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 26.0). Subnet Plus's advantage is ratings volume (54 vs 1). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Subnet Plus sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and CIDR sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
CIDR holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Subnet Plus has 54 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Subnet Plus ships an update every 2 weeks, CIDR every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Subnet Plus | CIDR |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (54 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 89.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 54 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ted Trentler | akira ohmachi |
Customer experience
Subnet Plus
CIDR
Bugs and requests
Subnet Plus
Reported bugs
8 issues- Text in subnet netmask field too large, last octet not visible
- Values truncated, cannot view full values
- Subnet mask and IP addresses truncated
- Cannot read all data
- Numbers truncated on iPhone 5s
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- Fields populated by app cannot be expanded
- Screen cannot fit full mask on iPad
- Calculation for number of subnets may be incorrect
Requested features
5 requests- Export option to share saved subnets
- Pay to remove ads
- Landscape mode for iPad Pro
- Update for visualising or adjusting screen on iOS 9
- Ability to type netmask
CIDR
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Subnet Plus
- remove Ads$4.99
CIDR
- Remove Ads$1.99







