Use Cases

Who reaches for
NetSweep?

It's a scanner you'll actually open — because finding what's on your network shouldn't require a laptop, a terminal, and a free afternoon. Here's how different people put it to work.

For IT & sysadmins

Walk into a site and know the network in 60 seconds.

Pull out your phone, scan, and get an instant inventory — no laptop, no console cable, no VPN. Perfect for the first five minutes on an unfamiliar network or a quick spot-check of your own.

  • Inventory every responding device with hostname, vendor guess, and open ports
  • Spot the device that shouldn't be there — new arrivals are flagged on the map
  • Check the gateway, subnet, and what the connection looks like from outside
  • Hand off a clean PDF report for documentation or a ticket
Scan summary
Devices found14
192.168.1.1 · gateway80, 443, 53
192.168.1.42 · NAS22, 445, 5000
192.168.1.88 · unknownNEW · 23 open
Health score72 / B
For developers

Is my dev server actually reachable — and only where it should be?

Confirm that the service you just spun up is listening, check which ports are exposed on your machine or a Pi, and verify a TLS certificate without leaving your couch.

  • Targeted port scan against any host on your network
  • TLS inspection: certificate chain, expiry, and handshake timing
  • Banner grabs and service detection to confirm what's really running
  • DNS forward/reverse lookups and subnet math built in
TLS inspection · api.local:443
Handshake84 ms
IssuerLet's Encrypt
Expires in12 days
Chaintrusted
Open ports22, 80, 443, 3000
For the security-curious

Find out what's quietly living on your home network.

Smart plugs, cameras, that one mystery device — see them all, learn what their open ports mean in plain language, and get pointed at real CVE data when something looks risky.

  • Plain-language risk notes for the services each device exposes
  • Live CVE lookup against the NIST National Vulnerability Database
  • Per-device breakdown showing exactly where the risk concentrates
  • Background checks that nudge you when a new device joins your Wi-Fi
Vulnerability insights
Devices with risk notes3
IP camera · port 554RTSP exposed
Old router · port 23Telnet — high risk
NAS · port 445SMB — check shares
CVE searchNIST NVD · live
Honest by design

What it does — and what iOS won't let any app do.

✓ What NetSweep does

  • TCP-connect scanning within iOS's sandbox — no private APIs
  • Bonjour / mDNS service discovery
  • TLS, DNS, banner, and CVE tooling
  • Connection quality estimates and history

✕ What iOS restricts

  • Reading other devices' MAC addresses (privacy-walled)
  • Raw sockets, ICMP ping, or ARP sweeps
  • Continuous background monitoring (only opportunistic checks)
  • Scanning a LAN over cellular — there isn't one

NetSweep is built for auditing networks you own or administer. It never claims capabilities iOS doesn't allow — every limitation is stated plainly in the app itself.

Built to be opened, not configured.

No setup, no agents, no dashboards to maintain. Just scan and see.