SecureCRT vs WLAN Pros Toolbox
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SecureCRT
This app provides secure remote access and terminal emulation for business applications on mobile devices. It offers advanced session management, allowing users to organize connections and import settings from desktop versions. Supports various emulation types and customizable session configurations.
- SSH/Telnet remote access
- Terminal emulation
- Advanced session management
- Session organization with folders
- Import desktop sessions
- Multiple simultaneous sessions
- Customizable session settings
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SecureCRT is a go-anywhere SSH/Telnet app with rock-solid remote access and terminal emulation on your iPhone and iPad. SecureCRT has advanced session management that lets you create folders to organize sessions and import sessions from your desktop version of SecureCRT. SecureCRT makes it easy to: - Access business applications securely on UNIX, Linux, or VMS from your iPhone or iPad with rich emulation support. - Configure, manage, and customize sessions to keep on top of your workload. - Depend on the open standard Secure Shell (SSH2) protocol. Key Features: - Choose from emulations like VT100/102/220, ANSI, SCO ANSI, Wyse 50/60, Xterm, and Linux console - Customize session settings for firewalls, logon data, authentication, agent, emulation, ANSI, font, and more - Import sessions from your desktop version of SecureCRT - Run multiple sessions at a time - Connect to the same host multiple times - Organize sessions into folders - Troubleshoot connections with trace options
WLAN Pros Toolbox
This comprehensive utility app offers over 260 Wi-Fi and network tools, including live tests, calculators, and reference tables. It also features a Wireless Classroom with guided lessons and interactive simulators to enhance understanding of wireless networking concepts.
- 260+ Wi-Fi and network tools
- Wireless Classroom with lessons and simulators
- Live network tests (Ping, traceroute, DNS)
- Extensive calculators (path loss, link budget)
- Quick reference tables and glossary
- Offline functionality for reference and calculators
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WLAN Pros Toolbox gives Wi-Fi pros, IT help desks, instructors and students 260+ network tools, plus a Wireless Classroom of lessons and simulators. Free. No account. No ads. No data collected. Built by Keith Parsons, CWNE #3, and Wireless LAN Professionals. Everything is grouped so you find the tool you need fast: live network tests, calculators, reference tables and the Wireless Classroom. The Wireless Classroom - 30 Guided Lessons in plain language, where the pictures do most of the teaching: Find My, Starlink, Wi-Fi Calling, Travel Routers, Captive Portals, Mesh and Extenders, One Talker per Channel, Is Your Router Too Old?, and more. - 50 interactive simulators: Wi-Fi Through a Wall, Multipath, Rate vs Range, Modulation, Polarization, OFDMA vs MU-MIMO, MIMO and Beamforming, Airtime Fairness, Multi-Link Operation (Wi-Fi 7), Roaming Walk, DFS and Radar, 802.1X and EAP. - Presenter mode for the projector, one step at a time. - A Teacher's Guide and a Field Manual for instructors. Is It Your Wi-Fi or Your Internet? Test My Connection helps answer the question everyone asks, in plain language. Start here when someone hands you a slow connection. Networking Tools Ping, traceroute, DNS, WHOIS, BGP/ASN, MAC vendor lookup, IP geolocation, port scan, HTTP and SSL/TLS inspectors, NTP, Wake-on-LAN. Calculators Free space path loss, Fresnel zone, link budget, EIRP, dBm and watts, rain fade, noise floor, antenna downtilt, capacity planner, SSID airtime, throughput, PoE budget, IP subnets, GPS. Quick Reference 103 tables in 13 topics: channels, 802.11 standards, MCS index, security and authentication, reason codes, cabling and connectors, ports, and a Wireless Glossary of 123 plain-language terms in English, Spanish, French, Italian and German. Reference tables and calculators work offline. Live tests need a network connection. iOS limits what apps can read about Wi-Fi, so on iPhone and iPad some live Wi-Fi details come from an optional companion Apple Shortcut. Free for the community. Also on Android, Windows, Mac, the web and WLAN Pi: toolbox.wlanpros.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: WLAN Pros Toolbox at 100% against SecureCRT's 36%. WLAN Pros Toolbox also leads on price (Free vs $9.99) and rating (5.0 vs 2.9). SecureCRT's advantage is ratings volume (31 vs 9). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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
WLAN Pros Toolbox is free to download; SecureCRT costs $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
WLAN Pros Toolbox holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 31 and 9 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 36% of SecureCRT's written reviews are positive against 100% of WLAN Pros Toolbox's.
SecureCRT ships an update every 4 months, WLAN Pros Toolbox every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SecureCRT | WLAN Pros Toolbox |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 2.9 (31 ratings) | 5.0 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 35.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 31 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 86 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | VanDyke Software | Keith Parsons |
Customer experience
SecureCRT
WLAN Pros Toolbox
In-app purchases
SecureCRT
No in-app purchases
WLAN Pros Toolbox
No in-app purchases







