Lan Analyzer vs Best NetTools
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lan Analyzer
This app scans your local network to identify connected devices and display their IP addresses, MAC addresses, and machine names. It offers visual network layout mapping to help troubleshoot issues. Functions include ping, traceroute, NetBIOS lookup, and obtaining your router's external IP address.
- Device discovery
- IP and MAC address display
- Machine name identification
- Visual network layout
- Ping functionality
- Traceroute
- NetBIOS lookup
- External IP address retrieval
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Lan Analyzer searches for all devices which is connected to your Local Area Network, and shows informations such as IP address, MAC address, and machine name. Displays network-layout visually, you can grasp device's location and resolve network troubles. A few packet are delivered in a short time, so load isn't applied to your network. Functions are shown below. - Ping : Searches for all devices using broadcast address. - Traceroute : Collects router's IP address and relationship. - NetBIOS : Gets device's MAC address and machine name. - HTTP : Transmits acknowledgement signal to external Web server, and gain your router's external IP address(global IP address).
Best NetTools
This utility app provides a suite of network tools for information searching, traceroute, ping, WHOIS, and DNS lookups. It's designed for network operators, website owners, and programmers seeking a fast and convenient assistant.
- Network information searching
- Traceroute
- Ping
- WHOIS lookup
- DNS dig
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Best NetTools is a toolkit that have many network utilities. Includes network information searching, traceroute, ping, whois, dig and other services. It is the popular used toolkit for network operators, websit owners, programmers and so on. It's a fast, simple, convenient assistant. Free users have a limit number of queries, please contact us for commercial license.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Best NetTools at 3.5 against Lan Analyzer's 1.0. Best NetTools also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 11 months) and ratings volume (6 vs 1). Lan Analyzer's advantage is review sentiment (57% vs 33%) and iOS requirement (6.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Best NetTools holds the better App Store score, 3.5 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Best NetTools has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 57% of Lan Analyzer's written reviews are positive against 33% of Best NetTools's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Lan Analyzer ships an update every 11 months, Best NetTools every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lan Analyzer | Best NetTools |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 3.5 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 57.1% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Shoichi Fujita | Beijing Tiantexin Technology Co., Ltd. |
Customer experience
Lan Analyzer
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In-app purchases
Lan Analyzer
No in-app purchases
Best NetTools
No in-app purchases
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