Honest Signal: Network Quality
Speed, latency and packet loss
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Your bars show radio strength, not whether data is moving. Honest Signal times four probes and a real 120 KB transfer, then scores what the connection can actually do.
Your phone's signal icon reports radio strength — how loudly the nearest mast or router is shouting. It says nothing about whether data is actually moving. Everyone has stood somewhere with five bars and a page that will not load.
Honest Signal measures the connection instead of listening to the radio. Each cycle sends up to four timed latency probes; periodic cycles also download a real 120 KB transfer sample. It scores what the connection can actually do — from 0 to 5 bars, with a plain-English verdict and the real numbers next to it.
WHAT IT MEASURES
• Latency — the median round-trip time across four probes
• Jitter — how much that round trip wobbles between probes
• Packet loss — how many of the four probes never came back
• Throughput — timed from a real download, not guessed from ping
• Network type — Wi-Fi or mobile data, shown beside the score
THE CASE A PING-ONLY TOOL MISSES
A link can answer pings promptly while no real data moves through it. Latency and jitter both look excellent in that state, so anything that only pings will call it healthy. Honest Signal takes a real transfer sample, and when the probes answer but the download will not complete it caps the score at 2 bars and tells you why. That is the "full bars, no data" failure this app exists to expose, and you cannot see it by pinging.
WHAT'S WRONG, IN WORDS
When something is off, Honest Signal says what: a Wi-Fi sign-in page, failing DNS, Wi-Fi up but the internet down, or signal with no data — and what usually fixes it.
NO MYSTERY SCORE
"How the score works" is a screen in the app, not a footnote. Every curve, weight, threshold and cap is written down.
ALMOST NO DATA
A round of four latency probes costs about 2.8 KB. A transfer sample costs about 120 KB and is taken far less often. A daily traffic counter — 25 MB by default, adjustable from 5 to 250 MB on every tier — sits on the home screen. When that limit is reached, transfer samples pause until midnight; small latency probes keep running so you still get a reading.
THIS IS NOT A SPEED TEST
A speed test answers "how fast is this right now". Honest Signal answers "is this connection actually working", repeatedly, for almost nothing. It does not report dBm: radio strength is the wrong number.
A WIDGET THAT CHECKS FOR ITSELF
iOS does not let an app measure while it is closed, and Honest Signal never pretends otherwise: every reading carries its age. The home-screen and lock-screen widget runs its own quick check whenever iOS refreshes it, so you can glance at your connection without opening the app.
HONEST SIGNAL PRO — one-off purchase, no subscription
• 30 days of history — the last hour, day, week or month as a chart, with every drop-out listed by time and length and split by Wi-Fi and mobile
• Evidence reports — a PDF of every drop-out, or every reading as CSV, to send to your provider
• Custom sampling intervals, from 2 to 60 seconds
• Indicator themes: bars, dots or wave
Buy once, keep it. Restore purchases from the paywall or Settings.
PRIVACY
No account, no sign-in, no analytics, no advertising, no tracking and no crash reporting. There is no server, so there is nothing for us to receive. Your measurements, settings and the record of your purchase stay in the app's private storage on your device and go when you uninstall.
Measuring a connection means using it. The app makes small HTTPS requests to public connectivity-check endpoints run by Google and Cloudflare. They carry no account or app identifier, but the operators can see your IP address. Readings stay on your device. You can cap the daily budget, lengthen the interval, or switch off measuring on mobile data.
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New: a home-screen and lock-screen widget that runs its own quick connection check, so you can see your score without opening the app.
When something is wrong, Honest Signal now says what in plain English — a Wi-Fi sign-in page, failing DNS, Wi-Fi up but the internet down — and what usually fixes it.
Pro now keeps 30 days of history, lists every drop-out with its time and length, splits results by Wi-Fi and mobile, and exports a PDF report or CSV you can send to your provider.
The developer, Froggy Eye Ltd, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- Froggy Eye Ltd
- Size
- 21.7 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Honest Signal Pro $4.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Froggy Eye Ltd