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NetBlade is live on Google Play

NetBlade is the studio's sixth app and the first one built for people who actually run networks. It turns a phone into a full workbench: open it, tap scan, and in seconds you know what is connected, what is exposing open ports and how the Wi-Fi is doing. It is on Google Play from today, free.

Three scanners in one app

The LAN scanner runs a parallel ping sweep across the whole subnet and returns every device with IP, MAC, vendor, hostname and latency; the vendor comes from the IEEE OUI database, around 40,000 prefixes bundled into the app, while mDNS and SSDP enrich names and icons. The port scanner works over TCP with the service name, a plain description and a risk rating, alongside real UDP probes for DNS, NTP, TFTP, mDNS, NetBIOS and SNMP. The Wi-Fi analyser lists nearby networks with channel, width, signal and security, charts channel usage on 2.4, 5 and 6 GHz, and measures coverage room by room.

More than twenty tools, written on sockets

Ping, traceroute, DNS records, WHOIS, Wake-on-LAN, a subnet calculator, a TLS certificate inspector, SNMP v1/v2c/v3, a Bluetooth LE scanner, a speed test, public-IP information, a latency monitor and an SSH terminal for your servers and switches. No third-party library does the work: SNMP is BER-encoded, DNS is in wire format, SSDP goes out over multicast, Wake-on-LAN sends a magic packet and the TLS inspector reads the handshake. That is why the app stays small and keeps working where the system APIs stop.

What changes after the first scan

Every device keeps its identity from one scan to the next — MAC first, then hostname, then IP — so you can give it a name, a note, an icon and a group, and find it exactly as you left it. Anything never seen on that network before gets a “new” badge. On the networks you choose, a periodic background check tells you when a device joins or leaves, raises priority alerts for risky services, and keeps a log of internet outages with an uptime percentage.

Scans stay on the phone

Scans run and are processed on the device and saved in local storage only: Innovatek Software receives no data about your networks, and there is no account to create. The only outbound lookups are the public services you start yourself, such as public-IP information or WHOIS. The app is free and ad-supported; a one-time purchase removes the ads.

Try it

NetBlade is on Google Play in 42 languages. The iOS version is in preparation.

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