Network Utilities & Analyzer

It appears that people who previously paid for full versions, are losing much of their “already paid for functionality” when they update to a more current app version. Read “The most current” reviews yourself.EDIT: I Updated this review from 1 star, to 3 star, because the app really is good (there are “as good” or possibly better). I still don’t like that many people appear affected by some of the functionality limitations or “missing data”, especially after having paid for a “fully functional and unlimited” app, prior to the developer’s decision to go subscription based.

Top review talks about how there’s no better app, paid or free. That was definitely true 5 years ago when the review was written. However, somewhere along the lines, using network utilities became a subscription model? how can it make sense to charge me for more than 10 dns lookups in a day? Truthfully, it may still be the best network utility out there, but as someone who’s not using it for enterprise work, there’s 0% chance I’m willing to be able to pay to use it, and the only time I need most of these tools is when I’m tinkering with the network, so will actually need a nontrivial number of lookups. ETA: I need to acknowledge that the subscription price is by all means reasonable, even for hobbling. However, I’d rather just have ads for something like this. I know devs have to eat, but 4 nslookups is just not realistic.

I use this app regularly when I don’t feel like taking out my laptop to do network activities. My favorite feature is the integrated SSH client, which I use very frequently to access my remote server from just about anywhere. But after I updated my phone to iOS 16.6, I noticed that the app crashes when I try to open Blink. It’s not a huge dealbreaker, as there are other mobile SSH clients out there, but this app is super versatile and I hope developer can get it back up to date.