Fing - Network Tools

It was great for years. Now the developers have become greedy and the app is inefficient. I paid for a subscription, needing a few of the paid features (that used to be free), and it got worse. After paying, it won't even show all of the devices connected to my network. It doesn't let me scan or refresh the search either.

The app is good but the scanner takes so long to finish, and I noticed that the Desktop/web/mobile apps do not sync with each other, so data may be skewed. It's a good concept and the app works well, especially on mobile...but my initial scans are taking over 12 hours to complete (10% after 12 hours) and there are no options to change the scan settings....

Used to be great, not any more. Changing my 5-Star review form 2016 to 1 star. Pushy to get users to subscribe, features are gone or severely limited. I'd consider a one-time (reasonable) price to purchase, not a monthly fee for something I only use a few times a year, if even. Perfect example of ensh@tfication. As soon as I find an alternative I'm uninstalling.

Used to be a good scanner before they got money hungry. Now they want you to pay for a monthly subscription and when you run a scan it labels every device as generic while other scanners actually show the brand name of the device making it much easier to know what you're dealing with. Don't waste your money on this app there are much better free ones in the Play store. I just uninstalled it.

This app has multiple major problems and that's strange because according to Google Gemini your app is supposed to be the best out there but it lists all of my devices twice. It says that some of them are offline when they're not. It doesn't acknowledge that I have cameras on my phones or my echo and I got the paid version so I'm going delete the app and cancel my subscription.

The limited tools you get free is rough, especially since it won't let me refresh what's on my network without paying. it hasn't refreshed in 14 hours, and claims I only have 4 devices connected, when in fact I don't. It can't paywall refreshing what's connected to my network. oh, another thing, the connection or something fails when I try signing in with my Google account. worked fine on my desktop, but on mobile, no matter what I do, it won't let me. So for me personally, this get's 2 stars.

I just uninstalled this app after using it for multiple years. I suggest reconsidering before downloading it. You’re required to pay for the upgraded version just to scan the network more than two or three times. If you’re trying to troubleshoot issues, don’t waste your time—after a few scans, it blocks you and pushes you to upgrade. Like many other apps, it ultimately just wants your money. 💸

For several years, this was my goto app for a quick network view. Sadly, not anymore. This app was dependable, always, now it is trying very hard to force you to pay for a subscription. What that means, is at a random time, the app will stop allowing you to refresh the network data of a random network. You have no way of knowing when it will happen, it could be the next time you open the app, it will just refuse to allow you to hit refresh. Really sad end to a great relationship. Bye.

Just a disgrace. I bought a find box and expected a good free app to control it. But greedy developers at Fing keep taking features away and making you pay for them. No thanks! I'll be finding another solution. I used to be able to control users and their devices without any outside app. Now they make you install their crapware on your PC to see a list of users. Instead of making the app user friendly it keeps going the other way. Less control and more complicated than ever. Don't buy!

This application can't even pull a device MAC address inside my own network from a device its known for years. I am changing my review of this product after about 5 - 7 years of use. This was, and I want to emphasize was, the best application for network enumeration, port scanning, and device recognition. Now it can't recognize devices correctly anymore, port scanning is inaccurate, and there is no reason. I understand they are trying to monetize but don't sacrifice quality!!

When I first starting using this in 2017 it was a quick and efficient app I used to see what was on my network. Now it's become a bloated mess. The desktop version is unusable with incessant notifications. The mobile version forces you too wade through several selling screens before getting what you want. I'll be looking for something simpler.

The old version was easy to use and efficient. This version is completely strange and to me both useless and unusable. when you use any of the menu options when using the back button you are informed that "discovery" is running and are prompted to cancel or continue. To get back you have to cancel. That's every time with no obvious way to stop. Fing informed me that i wasn't connected to the internet but then did the internet speed test. I'm uninstalling it. Sad to see a good tool spoiled.

Edit: Like many others, I will say that this app used to be fantastic. Now, it's just like every other sell-out/subscription model service. Also it's grossly overpriced for what it does... Plenty of alternatives out there that do not price gouge with a ($3+) monthly fee. Hilarious. Uninstalling and never looking back. Good job, guys. Previous 5 star review: A must have tool for anyone who wants a little more information on their networks.

I opened up the app and there were several pages of very tiny writing of beige fonts on white background! What's THAT all about? Anyway, all I could read was at the bottom in a "dark" font the words to agree and accept! Needless to say, it scared the heck out of me (since they really didn't want me to read it, or they would have a dark font on white), so I got out asap and here I am saying: agree & accept at your own risk! No app is worth just signing your rights away!

was fantastic, now force paid. was using this intermittently for a few years to find addresses of devices on my network. now I can scan one network, one time, per day. will find another app to use that's not a subscription monthly. as a non- IT person this makes no sense to me to pay monthly for something I use a couple times a day, like 1 day a month.

it would be five stars except the pop-up advertisement requires clicking on it to remove the window and it takes five or six tries because they made X extremely small on purpose. It's just annoying and does not get me to read the ad. Otherwwise, Best network monitoring software !! Either free or paid. Desktop OR app. App is extremely powerful in the all the right places. No bloat. Efficient and powerful.

Terrible. It used to be good until it was bought and they started charging for the features. Now they've just done another upgrade to the app where more stuff is suddenly considered premium and they broke the app at the same time. It's now throwing bugs. I just unplugged the device and switched to an open source firewall, and I am much happier. So congrats.

Fing used to be an amazing app when i fist startedcusinn it a few years ago. It was clean and really good at getting me the information I wanted. Now, it feels clutters and this is only made worse by the prompt to sign in and the ads. I miss the old experience. I don't want to have an account sign in and I'd rather pay for a now ad version - particularly if it resembled the app from a couple years ago. And stop trying to push the fingbox!

REPLY TO DEV: It's not that I'm dissatisfied with the progress of the updates, and I don't want them for free, but I object to paying for things in advance, especially if I don't know whether I'll want or need them. I question the wisdom of paying for promises before results. A one-off payment to ditch the ads is fair. Charging an ongoing fee to do so is extortion. ORIG: The "paid" version is actually a subscription. No outright purchase like others offer. Too bad. Hate ads, so uninstalling.

I have used this occasionally for the tools, but this morning a notification popped up from it about the super bowl. Really? It shouldn't even have been running. So I looked at the permissions, and not only can it access location data, it reads my contacts. So it's stealing contact information? Why would a program basically design for pinging the network need contacts. Sounds like spyware to me. I removed it.