Network Master an android app to take control of your WiFi

    

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Yesterday while I was looking for new and interesting apps for my Samsung Galaxy s4 running Android marshmallow, CyanogenMod 13.0 to be exact. An app attracted my attention, so I went ahead and downloaded and installed it, then I played around and saw all its features then I decided hmm this is a good app and I need to review it, and here we are.

O.K so starting with the name, the app is "Network Master" fancy right ! Well, it does remind me of clean master, the looks and the overall design is also very close to that of clean master, of course they are all from the same company cheetah, these guys know what the audience need, they focus on design, but unfortunately they use very intrusive ads, they also collect mass data from their users. The app I have on my phone is an ad free version, but yours will probably not be ad free (at least if you downloaded from play store)

Short Overview

Here is a short overview of what Master network does :
Network Master is a small, fast and free network tool. You can identify phishing WiFi hotspots to protect your online security, test network speed to find fast WiFi hotspots, detect all devices connected by professional network analyzer, Speed up phone by terminating unauthorized background apps, monitor 3g/4gdata usage and share portable hotspots with Network Master.

Now let's see if this app does what it says, Decoding Time 😎😎

The landing page (main activity) is clean and appealing to the eye. The app when first ran checks and analyzes connected wifi network, after that it displays stats of your network. if you scroll down you will see additional options and features of the app as seen in bellow picture.

Features I love in this app

The first option & feature I love in this app  is the ability to list apps that are currently using data with meters of how much each app is consuming in real time . this is a very handy feature because some times you see data traffic (if you have traffic indicators in status bar) but you do not know which app is using that data. This app is also good for spotting spying apps that keep open connections to unknown servers on the net .

Second feature I enjoy with this app is that it can kill apps that are using your data in the background so if you are downloading a large file on chrome for example, you don't want any app running in the background to use data, because that would limit downloading speed of your file, this app can take care of that.

of course there are more options in the app for example "Wifi spy detect" which lists all devices connected to your wifi and if you see any suspicious device that is not yours then you probably need to change your wifi password. You can also check whether your network has been tampered with as this app can detect man in the middle attacks, and checks for arp poisining, it checks for dns hijacking too, and that would be enough reason for you to get this app

Final Verdict

Overall the app is a swiss-army utility for your network , you can boost security of your network , see who is on your network, see which apps are using your data, test your download and upload speed, use firewall and many other things I leave them for you to check .

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