A rare gem in a sea of trash

I rarely ever write app store reviews, a positive one rarer still. This app deserves some praise. They kept it very basic, It’s simply doing a continous ping scan at a set interval and showing a notification when a device appears that you have not tagged as “Known”. If you are running an open wifi AP this could be very useful. However, I’ve found it fills an awesome role as a wifi doorbell. For example, my partner has our network saved in her phone. When she arrives home from work, it auto-connects to the network, and if I leave her marked as Unknown, I’ll get a notification that pop ups and translated, tell me “Time to hide the porn, wifey is home!”

The only negative part of this app is that I want it to do MORE, like fing (another similar app). I want it to do port scans on connected computers, which they probably don’t have because it would require admin access and a libpcap layer. I want it to have more icons for devices. I want it to have an export feature and to keep logs. I would pay for these features. Unfortunately they have chosen the subscripton model for the premium service, the same as fing. For the totally not-low price of $10/month you can get cloud logging and some other stuff that a simple home user like myself simply doesn’t need (well, not for $120/year!). Please make a version of this app aimed at home power users who dont necessarily need all the fancy enterprise level stuff, but want more out of this app. The space you are trying to function is, frankly, better served by fing and others in my opinion and there is a vaccuum when it comes to home users with less than 20 devices to monitor. Add some features to the app, allow people to save logs to a local network server and charge $10 for it and I’ll buy it for days.

This app slaughters other contenders I’ve seen on the app store trying to boast the same features with neutered functionality like a device limit. This app is clean, basic, and just works. Kudos for that, it’s hard to find on the app store. I haven’t tested whether it can recognize a device by the mac address if the ip changes, as it will, with DHCP. If it can’t please get on that. Also, where is the OUI lookup???

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