Comparison

Air Route vs Flow

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

Head to head
About

Air Route

This utility displays detailed information about your device's current network routes. It helps you understand how your device finds network paths to other systems, including details about gateways, hosts, subnets, and interface types.

Highlights
  • View network route information
  • List default gateway addresses
  • Show hostname, network type, and MAC address
  • Offline MAC vendor database
  • Display MTU, entry expire date, and hop count
  • Supports various network interfaces including Wi-Fi and VPN
Features
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Air Router is a small utility that lets you show all information about your current network routes. Network routing is the mechanism that allows an iOS device to find the network path to another system. A route is a defined pair of addresses which represent the “destination” and a “gateway”. The route indicates that when trying to get to the specified destination, send the packets through the specified gateway. There are three types of destinations: individual hosts, subnets, and “default”. The “default route” is used if no other routes apply. There are also three types of gateways: individual hosts, interfaces, also called links, and Ethernet hardware (MAC) addresses. Known routes are stored in the routing table of iOS device. DEFAULT GATEWAYS • List the default gateway (router) addresses of active network interfaces. • Show hostname, network type, MAC address (on Wi-Fi network only), PING capability, WHOIS record for each default gateway. • Full offline MAC vendor database. HOSTS AND SUBNETS • List the known network hosts and subnets. • Show hostname, network type, MAC address (on Wi-Fi network only), PING capability, WHOIS record for each host. • Full offline MAC vendor database. • Show link local and multicast destinations. ROUTE ENTRY INFORMATION • Maximum transfer unit (MTU) value. • Entry expire date. • Maximum hop count. • Estimated round trip time (RTT). INTERFACE DETECTION • Supported interfaces: • Local loopback (this device). • Wi-Fi network (client mode). • Cellular (wireless WAN) network. • Bluetooth PAN network. • VPN tunnel (L2TP, PPTP or Cisco IPSec). • Personal hotspot bridge (general mobile internet connection sharing). • Connection sharing via Wi-Fi radio. (access point mode) • Connection sharing via Bluetooth radio. • Connection sharing via USB cable.

About

Flow

Features
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Flow turns your iPhone and iPad into a powerful sensor hub. Build visual data pipelines by connecting nodes on a canvas — stream camera, motion, and AR data to any device over OSC, UDP, or TCP. VISUAL NODE EDITOR Drag, connect, and configure nodes on an interactive canvas. No coding required. Build complex sensor routing in minutes with an intuitive drag-and-connect interface inspired by tools like TouchDesigner and Max/MSP. 50+ NODES IN 3 CATEGORIES Sources — Camera & Vision (body pose, hand tracking, face landmarks), Sensors (accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer, barometer, ARKit), Generators (signal, noise, counter, timer, clock, array sequencer), and Data (API request with JSON extraction). Processing — Math operations, trigonometry, normalize, quantize, smooth filters, map range, waveform modulation, oscillators, logic gates, comparators, thresholds, triggers, delay, sample & hold, looper, vector math, string formatting, and JSON building. Destinations — TCP client & server, UDP sender, OSC sender. Plus multi-device nodes that broadcast to sequential IP addresses with per-device value offsets — perfect for LED installations, coordinated displays, and multi-device performances. REAL-TIME LIVE DATA Monitor every node in real time. Source nodes show output data, processing nodes show both input and processed output, destination nodes show what they receive. Human-readable formatting for all data types — JSON pretty-printing, pose joint details with confidence bars, hex blob previews, matrix grids, and sparkline history charts. MULTI-DEVICE ORCHESTRATION Control multiple devices simultaneously. Set a base IP and device count — Flow sends to each device with optional per-device value offsets. Create wave effects, staggered animations, or synchronized installations across OSC, UDP, or TCP. API INTEGRATION Fetch data from any REST API with configurable HTTP method, headers, and request body. Extract values from JSON responses using dot-notation key paths. Auto-fetch on intervals or trigger manually. 30+ READY-MADE TEMPLATES Start instantly with pre-built workflows for hand tracking, body pose, face landmarks, accelerometer streaming, ARKit world tracking, noise generation, signal processing chains, multi-device broadcasting, and more. CAMERA PREVIEW Live camera feed appears automatically on the canvas when running vision pipelines. See your pose tracking, hand detection, or face landmarks overlaid in real time. SAVE & REUSE Save workflows and destination presets. Quickly switch between network configurations. Load saved workflows from the template picker. BUILT FOR CREATIVE TECHNOLOGISTS Flow is designed for artists, VJs, installation designers, creative coders, and anyone who needs to get sensor data from iOS to other software or hardware. Works seamlessly with TouchDesigner, Max/MSP, Processing, openFrameworks, Unity, Unreal Engine, Resolume, and any OSC/UDP/TCP-compatible tool. TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS • iOS 17+ with SwiftUI and Swift Concurrency • 60fps pipeline engine with actor-based architecture • Network.framework for low-latency TCP/UDP • Full OSC 1.0 protocol support • Vision framework for real-time pose estimation • CoreMotion for all device sensors • ARKit for world and face tracking

Screenshots

Air Route4 screens
Flow4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Air Route at $2.99 against Flow's $4.99. Air Route also leads on device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Air Route costs $2.99 and Flow $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Air Route ships an update every 3 months, Flow every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Air Route versus Flow: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAir RouteFlow
Price$2.99 — better$4.99
Rating3.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB5 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperCsaba IranyiIbrahim Sefa Tuna

In-app purchases

None

Air Route

No in-app purchases

None

Flow

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Air Route free?
Air Route costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Flow free?
Flow costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Air Route or Flow have ads?
Neither Air Route nor Flow shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Air Route or Flow?
Air Route ships an update every 3 months, and Flow every 4 months. Most recently, Air Route was updated on October 29, 2026 and Flow on October 31, 2026.

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