Network Scout vs OSINT Toolbox
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
Network Scout
This app helps you understand your device's network capabilities and discover devices and services on your local network. It provides detailed information about Wi-Fi, cellular, VPN, and Bluetooth connections, as well as media devices and AirDrop.
- Network device and service discovery
- Detailed Wi-Fi and cellular information
- VPN and Bluetooth connection analysis
- Hotspot client analysis
- Find TV, media renderers, and AirPlay speakers
- Offline MAC vendor and carrier databases
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One App to rule them all, One App to find them... Network Scout is an all-in-one network discover and analyzer application. It can helps you to understand the network features of your device and find network devices and services on your local home or office network. INTERNET INFO ⢠Show default gateways, IP addresses, networks. ⢠Show DNS servers, search domain names, local MAC addresses, host name resolve. ⢠Depth external address analysis: ISP name, autonomous system name, whois, ping, regional internet registry info. ⢠Full offline MAC vendor database. ⢠List the default gateway (router) addresses of active network interfaces. ⢠List the known network hosts and subnets. WI-FI INFO ⢠Detect standards (802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ad). ⢠Detect speed-up features (short guard interval, STBC, HT duplicate, etc). ⢠Detect operation frequencies and channels. ⢠Detect available antennas, MIMO config, spatial streams. ⢠Detect security options and modes (WPA standards and EAP modes). ⢠Detect optimization (WMM) and access features (Wi-Fi Direct, Miracast, Voice). ⢠Detect max. physical speeds. ⢠Detect hotspot type. ⢠Hotspot SSID, MAC address, IP address and vendor information. CELLULAR INFO ⢠Detect mobile generations and standards (2G, 3G, 4G, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, HSPA, LTE, VOLTE). ⢠Detect max. physical cellular speeds in the supported mobile technologies. ⢠Show cellular network interface IP address, ISP name, autonomous system name, whois, ping, regional internet registry info. ⢠Detect cellular features: SIM card size, phone and Wi-Fi calling, cellular data transfer capabilities. ⢠Detect mobile network operator name, country, region, MCC and MNC codes. ⢠Detect current cellular connection mode (GPRS,EDGE,UMTS,HSPA,LTE), ⢠Detect LTE operation bands supported by your carrier. ⢠Detect carrier features available in your country. ⢠Full offline carrier database contains 500+ mobile networks from 150+ countries. PERSONAL HOTSPOT INFO ⢠Detect current network sharing types. ⢠Detailed information about communication type, speed, mode. ⢠Analyze currently connected hotspot clients. Show IP and MAC address, PING capability, etc. VPN INFO ⢠Detect current VPN tunnel type. ⢠Show VPN Server address, DNS hostname, WHOIS record, PING capability, ISP details. ⢠Analyze private networks, remote gateway address. AIRDROP INFO ⢠Detect AirDrop usage requirements and limitations. ⢠Detect supported iOS/OSX devices for sharing content. BLUETOOTH INFO ⢠Detect protocols and standards. ⢠Detect profiles and versions, tethering options. ⢠Detect supported power classes, max. ranges. FIND TV AND MEDIA RENDERER DEVICES ⢠Detect internet-capable television (LCD, LED, OLED, Plasma). ⢠Detect Apple TV devices. FIND MEDIA LIBRARIES ⢠Detect shared iTunes Libraries and running iTunes applications. ⢠Detect iTunes Home Sharing, Apple TV Home Sharing, Media Servers, Media Centers and Extenders. FIND AIRPLAY SUPPORTED SPEAKERS ⢠Detect wireless speakers with Apple AirPlay support. ⢠Detect speaker model type, model number, release date, firmware version, service version, and so on. ⢠Detect AirPlay capabilities, security features. ⢠Detect wireless speaker Wi-Fi capabilities. FIND REMOTE CONTROLLERS ⢠Detect Home Sharing remote controllable devices. ⢠Detect Remote controller pairing. FIND PRINTERS ⢠Detect the shared printers. ⢠Detect AirPrint support REACH UI FEATURES ⢠Info menu with feedback and privacy settings. ⢠Use the camera icon (upper-right corner) to create and print/send/share a screenshot from the entire page. ⢠Pull down with your finger to refresh the information. ⢠Long press on a cell to copy/print/send/open as/share the cell value. ⢠Shake your device to refresh the information.
OSINT Toolbox
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From the developer of the award-winning Network Toolbox comes a new standard for open-source intelligence on Apple platforms. OSINT ā Open-Source Intelligence ā is the practice of gathering and analysing information from publicly available sources: domain registrations, DNS records, IP reputation databases, breach data, certificate logs, and more. OSINT Toolbox makes these capabilities available natively on iPhone, iPad, and Mac ā with no accounts, no data collection, and no active probing of target systems. REPLACE A DOZEN BROWSER TABS WITH ONE APP Security researchers, journalists, IT professionals, and privacy-conscious investigators have long relied on a patchwork of web tools ā each requiring a separate account, each handling your data differently, many operating opaquely. OSINT Toolbox consolidates the most important of these into a single, transparent, and consistent interface that works the same on every Apple device. INTELLIGENCE MODULES Enter any indicator ā domain, IP address, email address, URL, file hash, ASN, phone number, username, or company name ā and OSINT Toolbox automatically runs every relevant module in parallel. Results stream in live. Discovered entities can pivot automatically into new investigation threads. Built-in intelligence sources include: ⢠DNS resolution and reverse DNS ⢠RDAP and WHOIS registration data ⢠Certificate transparency logs ⢠VirusTotal, Shodan, AbuseIPDB, GreyNoise ⢠HaveIBeenPwned, ThreatFox, MalwareBazaar ⢠Gravatar, LinkedIn, social account presence ⢠BGP routing, ASN info, IP geolocation ⢠And more ā with new modules added regularly Bring your own API keys for services that support it. Free modules work without any key at all. APPLE INTELLIGENCE BUILT IN OSINT Toolbox integrates Apple's on-device AI so you can describe an investigation in plain language ā no need to know which modules to pick or how to format the input. Just type what you're looking for: "Check if cloudflare.com has been flagged for malware and show its DNS records and registration details" The app understands your intent, selects the right indicator type, and activates the relevant modules ā entirely on-device, privately, with no data sent to any cloud service. The feature is optional and requires a device with Apple Intelligence enabled. INVESTIGATION UTILITIES A growing catalog of standalone utilities covers hashing, encoding, network calculations, DNS lookups, IP geolocation, certificate inspection, JWT decoding, CIDR calculation, URL analysis, mail header analysis, and more ā all available offline, all on-device. PRIVACY BY DESIGN OSINT Toolbox is built on a strict principle: your investigation data belongs to you. ⢠No account required ⢠Passive only ā never touches target infrastructure; queries public APIs and open data sources only ⢠No analytics, no telemetry, no crash reporting to third parties ⢠App Store privacy label: Data Not Collected ⢠API keys stored exclusively in iCloud Keychain ā never logged, never exported, never sent anywhere except the one service they authenticate against ⢠All DNS queries routed through DNS-over-HTTPS ⢠Indicator values never written to logs ⢠No third-party SDKs or libraries of any kind NATIVE. EVERYWHERE. OSINT Toolbox is a Universal Purchase ā buy once, use on all your iPhone, iPad, and Mac devices. Written entirely in Swift 6 with SwiftUI. No Electron shell. No web wrapper. No third-party frameworks. Just native Apple technology, done properly. Scan results, investigation notebooks, and settings sync automatically across all your devices via iCloud. API keys sync securely via iCloud Keychain.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: OSINT Toolbox at $14.99 against Network Scout's $21.99. OSINT Toolbox also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 months) and chart position (#183 vs unranked). Network Scout's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 26.0). On ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS
Network Scout costs $21.99 and OSINT Toolbox $14.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Network Scout ships an update every 5 months, OSINT Toolbox every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Network Scout | OSINT Toolbox |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $21.99 | $14.99 ā better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | ā |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 3 weeks ā better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | ā |
| Best chart rank | ā | #183 ā better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 ā better | 26.0 |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 63 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Csaba Iranyi | Marcus Roskosch |
In-app purchases
Network Scout
No in-app purchases
OSINT Toolbox
No in-app purchases
Questions
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