iNet - Network Scanner vs Network Utility Usage & Stats
iNet - Know Your Network!
Easily get an overview of your local network. Which devices are online, which ports are open, which services are available? What is the address of your router? Is someone using your Wi-Fi without your knowledge? Wake up sleeping computers via the network. With iNet you can do all this and more. You can even customize found devices with your own names and icons.
Thanks to its clear and user-friendly design, iNet allows anyone, even with little technical experience, to get a comprehensive overview of their network, connected devices and active services.
iNet is a network scanner designed to make network information accessible, whether you are an experienced network specialist or a casual user. It gives you the data you need to understand what's going on in your network.
No collection of user data. No “calling home”. No subscription. Just a one-time payment for lifetime use.
One of the best network tools for iOS since 2010. Developed in Germany.
This free basic version of iNet includes the network scanner only, but it still offers a wealth of information about your network. You can unlock additional features through in-app upgrades.
Network scanner:
- View all devices that are online and connected to the network, including their IP.
- You can assign your computers, routers or other network devices your own names and icons from the supplied Ion sets or your own icons to identify a device in the scan list more quickly. Most Macintosh devices are automatically displayed with the correct icon.
- Setting the IP range to be scanned or the interfaces to be scanned
- Exporting the scan results as an Excel (csv) or PDF file
- Connect to devices with different protocols
Bonjour monitor:
- Display of all running services (Bonjour) in real time
- Display of the services running on a specific device
- Display of detailed information about a service
- Selection of the active Bonjour domain
Wake on Lan
- Wake up computers in the local network and via the Internet
- Hibernation, shutdown or restart (Macintosh computers only)
- Creating a favorites list
- Sending commands to devices via ssh
Help
- Detailed help text
iNet does not collect user data and does not make calls home. The one-time purchase of the upgrade includes all future updates.
iNet is also available as a native Mac and iPad version.
- Apple App Store
- Free
- Utilities
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Keep under control your network with Network Utility, an user friendly set of network tools that will help you to analyze your LAN, and not only that.
► NETWORK INFO
A complete and easy to understand report of your device's network interfaces. In that tab you'll find information like the IP, IPv6, other addresses or the data usage statistics about your Wi-Fi, Internet or Cellular connection (if any).
► CELLULAR DATA MONITOR
Don't lose sight of your data usage, with four taps you'll have a data monitor configured and ready to use.
The following data usage plans' period are supported:
- Daily
- Weekly
- Monthly
- 28 days
- 30 days
- 90 days
► LAN SCANNER
Analyze your Wi-Fi with the LAN Scanner tool. Discovering who is connected to your network and Ping it, is a matter of two taps.
Easily manage custom subnets to scan only a portion of your LAN.
► PING
Ping a LAN device, Ping a server, ping whatever you want. IPv6 addresses are supported too and advanced options like packet size, timeouts, intervals, etc.. are available and easily configurable.
The results of your Ping are available numerically in the aggregated stats, graphically in the real time graph or listed, a row per ICMP response received.
► GEO IP
Have you ever wondered where a server or any other IP is located? That's the tool for you, show the location on a map and get additional details like the ISP or the ASN in the details pane.
► DIG
A DNS lookup utility made simple. A list clearly shows the result of your query and the advanced options allow you to customize your request from the type of query to the DNS server.
► WHOIS
Find any information about a domain name and it's owner e.g. the status, creation date, registrant email and address and many more.
► NSLOOKUP
A no-frills textual DNS lookup utility.
► WIDGET *
Network Utility comes with an useful widget that brings network informations and the cellular data usage into your notification center, home screen e lock screen.
► EXPORT RESULTS ANYWHERE
Every utility has an export button that allows you to export the result of your task to the File app, to the Notes app and many other apps or simply copy the raw textual result.
► MAC APP
Network Utility is also available on the Mac App Store as Network Kit X, the same app but tuned to take advantage of macOS.
Start a tool on your iPhone/iPad a continue it on your Mac thanks to Handoff and Continuity.
!! N.B.
- Cellular data monitor is available only on iPhone or iPad with Cellular.
- LAN Scanner on iOS 11 and upper due to a limitation of the OS can't display the MAC address of the discovered devices. Hostname resolution is available only if you don't use an external DNS.
- Widgets on iOS 14 are updated only at scheduled intervals (e.g. every 5 minutes), so they can show outdated info. Open the app to get info updated in real time.
- Data usage widget, full featured network state widgets and lock screen widgets are available only with the Pro upgrade
- Apple App Store
- Free
- Utilities
Store Rank
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iNet - Network Scanner VS. 
Network UtilityDecember 8, 2024