Hey Dev.to 👋
I’m an indie iOS developer and long-time network engineer who wanted one mobile app to diagnose, analyze, monitor, and secure networks natively, without cloud accounts or bloated interfaces.
Instead of building separate apps for domain and SSL expiry, I decided to bake them into a single toolkit — the result became Network Tools AI.
This post isn’t just a launch announcement, it’s also a share of the problem, architecture direction, and future roadmap, for anyone building or relying on network services.
❗ The Real Problem
If you ever ran a website, internal service, or client infrastructure, you may have experienced:
SSL certificates expiring silently → outages
Domain registrations lapsing → service death
Tools that give raw results but no human explanations
So I built a suite that:
You save a host/domain → the app monitors it in background → you get early warnings before it breaks.
🛡 SSLGuard & upcoming DomainGuard inside Network Tools AI
Live today
SSL certificate expiry countdown
Certificate issuer preview
Certificate detail inspection
Local notifications before expiry
Zero login required
Pipeline (DomainGuard + scheduling concept)
Whois domain expiry monitoring
Registrar insights
Scheduling: daily/weekly/monthly alerts (push + email)
Unified dashboard for both SSL + domain status
Yes — they will be a single monitoring suite, not split subscriptions.
📡 All the network tools I needed in one place
Ping + AI-explained results
Traceroute + GeoTrace map overlays
LAN discovery / IP scanning
Open port detection (only open ports shown)
DNS resolver
Whois lookup
Widgets for Home/Lock Screen
CarPlay notifications
Premium mode auto-removes ads
100% native Swift / UIKit core
This is genuinely the toolset I used to debug massive carrier and ISP networks, now miniaturized for mobile use.
🧠 On-Device AI Explanations
A big part of the app is optional AI assistance, which explains results like:
“The ping to 192.168.1.1 succeeds with low latency, which means your router is reachable and responsive. No packet loss detected — connection is stable.”
I’m working to expand this to deeper contextual network Q&A inside the app later.
🚀 Architecture Direction (without full code dump 😄)
Some native iOS building blocks I rely on and fine-tune:
BGTaskScheduler for background execution
NWPathMonitor for Wi-Fi route/state monitoring
CoreLocation (Visits/Deferred) for network+location correlation
StoreKit 2 for verified premium subscriptions
WidgetKit for Lock & Home screen widgets
If anyone wants a deeper technical breakdown of background task scheduling or certificate parsing on mobile — ask away, happy to share snippets or design decisions.
🚀 Architecture Direction (without full code dump 😄)
Some native iOS building blocks I rely on and fine-tune:
BGTaskScheduler for background execution
NWPathMonitor for Wi-Fi route/state monitoring
CoreLocation (Visits/Deferred) for network+location correlation
StoreKit 2 for verified premium subscriptions
WidgetKit for Lock & Home screen widgets
If anyone wants a deeper technical breakdown of background task scheduling or certificate parsing on mobile — ask away, happy to share snippets or design decisions.
🎯 Who might love this
Self-hosting builders
Network/security pros
Curious Wi-Fi power users
Anyone burned by expired SSL/domain outages
iOS devs building system-aware utilities
🔗 App identity: https://apps.apple.com/bg/app/network-tools-ai/id6444090484
My ask for the community 👇
💬 What monitoring or network feature do you wish existed on iOS mobile?
🛠 What annoys you about current network tool UX?
🚀 What would you improve in a proactive monitoring suite on-device?
Thanks for reading 🙌
Let’s keep shipping powerful, smart, indie iOS tooling — directly from dev hands to real users 👊📱📡
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