NetScanPro vs. Fing
NetScanPro and Fing are both free to download and both cap their free tier at three scans a day. What separates them is what happens next: NetScanPro sells a single paid unlock, Fing sells subscriptions. This comparison is built from what each developer publishes — App Store listings, Fing’s pricing page and Fing’s privacy documentation — with every claim sourced and anything unverifiable listed as such. NetScanPro is published by Fogarty Holdings LLC, which also operates AppMatchup; see the disclosure below.
Everything below comes from published sources, checked on 2026-08-08 and linked in each section. Where the sources don’t answer a question, it’s listed under What we couldn’t verify rather than guessed at.
NetScanPro
An on-device iPhone scanner from a solo developer, free to scan with a single paid unlock for port scanning and security summaries.
Published by Fogarty Holdings LLC, which operates AppMatchup.
Fing
A long-established scanner sold as a free tier plus subscription plans, with an account, desktop and web clients, and an optional hardware add-on.
If you scan occasionally and want it to stay on your phone with no account, NetScanPro is the pay-once option. If you want the network watched continuously, with alerts when something new joins, Fing is built for that, and that is what the subscription buys.
At a glance
| Field | NetScanPro | Fing |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | Fogarty Holdings LLC | Fing Limited |
| Price | Free to download; a $6.99 one-time in-app purchase unlocks Pro | Free to download; Premium $7.99/month or $69.99/year, Professional $16.99/month or $149.99/year, per Fing’s pricing page on 2026-08-08 |
| App Store rating | 5.00 from 2 ratings | 4.65 from 115,727 ratings |
| Current version | 1.11.6, updated 2026-08-07 | 12.13.2, updated 2026-07-23 |
| First released | 2026-04-24 | 2011-04-19 |
| Install size | 7.9 MB | 235.1 MB |
| Minimum iOS | 17.0 | 16.4 |
| iPad support | Yes | Yes |
Pulled from the App Store on 2026-08-08. Prices, versions, ratings, install sizes and OS requirements change — check the current App Store listing before relying on any of these values.
Feature comparison
| Field | NetScanPro | Fing |
|---|---|---|
| Differs: Pricing model | Free to download; a single $6.99 in-app purchase unlocks the paid features permanently. No subscription | Free tier plus recurring subscriptions — Premium $7.99/month or $69.99/year, Professional $16.99/month or $149.99/year, per Fing’s pricing page |
| Free-tier scan limit | Unlimited device discovery, capped at 3 scans per day | Up to 3 manual scans per day; unlimited on paid plans, per Fing’s pricing page |
| Differs: Account required | None. The app has no accounts and no sign-in | The pricing page presents every plan, including the free one, behind a sign-up |
| Differs: Data collection | No accounts, no analytics and no third-party SDKs. Scan results stay on the device. The only outbound request is a UPnP description fetch to a device that answered on the user’s own network, so nothing leaves the local network | Apple’s App Store privacy card states data may be collected but is not linked to the user’s identity. Fing’s help centre states the app sends the device’s public IP to an external GeoIP service to look up ISP information |
| Differs: Continuous monitoring and alerts | Not offered | Available on paid plans, and requires Fing Desktop, Fing Agent or Fingbox running separately — the phone app alone does not provide it |
| Discovery methods | Four running in parallel — TCP probing, Bonjour/mDNS, SSDP/UPnP and ICMP ping | NetBIOS, UPnP, SNMP and Bonjour analysis, per its App Store description |
| Device identification | Bonjour records, UPnP announcements and open-port patterns, plus MAC vendor prefixes for devices that broadcast one, such as AirPlay and Chromecast hardware, matched against an offline IEEE database. Every identification carries a confidence level, and devices that share nothing identifiable stay unlabelled rather than guessed at | Device recognition the developer describes as patented |
| Port scanning | 27 common TCP ports, in the paid unlock. Each scanned port carries a plain-language explanation, and sensitive ports carry security guidance. Devices with an open web port get a one-tap link into Safari | Listed in the App Store description; the pricing page distinguishes a basic open-ports finder on the free plan from an advanced one on paid plans |
| Other platforms | iPhone and iPad only | Windows and Mac desktop apps, a Raspberry Pi agent, a web app, and an Android version |
Sources for this section: NetScanPro App Store listing, NetScanPro product page, Fing App Store listing, Fing pricing page, and Fing GDPR and privacy help article. All five were checked on 2026-08-08. Published feature lists change — check the current pages before relying on any row above. A heavier amber rule marks a row where the two apps meaningfully differ.
Where each one fits
NetScanPro is a single $6.99 unlock rather than a subscription, it has no accounts and no sign-in, and its one outbound request goes to a device that answered on the user’s own network, so nothing leaves the local network. Each scanned port carries a plain-language explanation, which is aimed at people who don’t already know what a port does. Three things sit against that. It runs on iPhone and iPad only. It offers no continuous monitoring or alerts. And it is far newer and far less widely used than Fing — the rating counts in the table above are the clearest measure of that gap.
Fing has the widest reach of the two — Windows and Mac desktop apps, a Raspberry Pi agent, a web app and an Android version, plus Fingbox as an optional hardware add-on — and it is the only one of the two that lists continuous monitoring and alerts, on paid plans. Against that, its free plan allows up to 3 manual scans per day, the same cap as NetScanPro’s. Every plan, including the free one, sits behind a sign-up. And its monitoring requires Fing Desktop, Fing Agent or Fingbox running separately, on top of the subscription.
What we couldn’t verify
These are questions the published sources do not answer. They are listed here unresolved rather than guessed at.
- Whether Fing’s free plan can be used without creating an account
- What Fing’s device recognition patent covers, which its App Store description asserts without detail
- How many devices on a typical network broadcast a MAC address NetScanPro can read; iOS restricts access to the address table, so this depends entirely on the mix of devices present
- What Fing’s paid open-ports finder adds over the free one, beyond the pricing page labelling them basic and advanced
- How either app’s identification performs in practice, which no published source establishes
Ownership disclosure
AppMatchup is operated by Fogarty Holdings LLC.
NetScanPro, one of the two apps on this page, is published by Fogarty Holdings LLC. Fing is published by Fing Limited, which has no connection to Fogarty Holdings LLC. This page compares an app we publish against one we don’t, and you should read it with that in mind.
Every claim above is sourced to a published page, listed under the tables. Where the sources don’t answer a question, it’s listed under What we couldn’t verify rather than resolved in our own favour.