The nicest ping app on iPhone.
Real ICMP ping, connection-quality scoring, and a full session history. Free, no account, no ads.
Real ICMP
Pingly sends ICMP echo requests through iOS's datagram socket, the same protocol as the ping command. True round-trip times, measured on device.
Quality score
Latency, jitter, packet loss, and stability roll up into a single score, updated as replies come in.
All the stats
Sent, received, lost, loss percent, min, average, max, and jitter, all live.
Live charts
Each reply plots on a chart, so a latency spike or a dropped packet shows up in real time.
Sonar Mode
Turn on Sonar and every ping reply plays a note. Keep an ear on things while you get on with something else.
Free and private
No cost, no account, no ads, no tracking. Pingly only contacts the hosts you point it at, and all data stays on your device.
Screenshots
See it running.
Every screen, from live pings to the quality score. Tap any shot to zoom in.
FAQ
Good questions.
The things developers tend to ask first.
Both work. Type a hostname and Pingly resolves it, or point it straight at an address like 1.1.1.1. It pings whatever the phone's network can reach, including your own router or a server you run.
It's a 0 to 100 figure built from four inputs over the session: latency, jitter, packet loss, and how stable the results stay. You get a letter grade from A+ to F and a one-line verdict next to the raw numbers.
Yes. Interval is 0.5, 1, or 2 seconds; ICMP payload is 56, 128, or 512 bytes; timeout is 1, 2, or 5 seconds. Switching hosts starts a fresh session so stats don't bleed across targets.
iOS allows unprivileged ICMP through datagram sockets, so Pingly sends real echo requests from inside the normal app sandbox. No jailbreak, no special entitlement, no raw sockets.
Active pinging is a foreground job, since iOS suspends the app in the background. Leave the screen and the current session stops. Your history is already saved, and you can pick a host back up when you return.
There isn't one. No ads, no account, no analytics SDKs, no paid tier. Everything it records lives locally on your phone. It's a small utility built to be good, not to monetize you.
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Pingly is free: no account, no ads, no tracking. A small iPhone app that does one job and looks good doing it.
No account, no setup, just ping
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