IP Scanner Home

I don’t NEED this app, but I use it so much because it makes network awareness so easy. I will never have a device that I rely on daily that doesn’t have it loaded. I know how do get all the network info that it sends me on a single screen, but when it is this easy why would I bother, I just use IP Scanner! A great app, a great value and it makes my daily network life easier.

This software tool does exactly what I would expect it too. I like the fact that it will reconize a device and you change the name and other parameters on you network very easily. It recognizes anything Apple with no error. On other devices on your network you can tell this software what kind of device it is and it will remember what you’ve told it. I keep a DHCP home network the same as most everyone else in America. However I can tell my Mac settings very easily what devies I want to take which IP address I prefer. This makes it easier to tell when a device has joined my network & I’m looking at the Free version of this software on my iPhone (why pay for both when you don’t nessarily need to pay for the iOS version). Now with just a little constructive criticism. My biggest negative comments are 2 things: 1. I wish it would “Autorefresh” on it’s own. When I have guests over with devices that have permission to join my network this tool will not Autoreconize their devices. It appears the only solution to reconize a recently joined device is to click on the App, Stop it & then restart it. Kinda a bumper if all u want to do is park it in the dock and simply watch the Apps badges numbers increment when a device is joined to your LAN. 2. The 2nd biggest complaint that I have is when it is closed and then reopened it continues to tell me “New devices have joined my network”. When it fact it’s the same devices that were always on the network prior to me shutting down the App or restarting my Mac. Put some effort into changing these “cons" that I have with your software and I’d gladly give you guys a 5 Star rating. For the price and what I want to accomplish: Bottom Line = I would recommend buying and I would buy again if I didn’t already have the software.

IP Scanner Home fails to find devices that are available on the network and can be reached by ping. It lists two devices with different MAC addresses as having the same IP address and has them both marked as available. It lists a single device with one MAC address twice with two different IP addresses and has them both marked as available. I have it configured to scan a 192.168.1.0 network and it found a device on a 10.0.0.0 network even though that device and network don’t exist. If you need a network scanning tool to be reliable and accurate, then look elsewhere as IP Scanner Home has too many issues for me to recommend it.