Angry IP Scanner for iPhone (2026): iOS Equivalents That Work
Short version. Angry IP Scanner is a Java desktop application for Windows, macOS and Linux. There is no iOS build and no official plan for one. On iPhone the equivalent job, sweeping your local range and reporting what answers, is handled well by a native scanner: PingKit does it free, with device naming and a TCP port scanner alongside.
Angry IP Scanner is a deservedly popular tool: free, open source, fast, and it does one thing clearly. When people move from a desk to a phone they naturally look for it in the App Store, and it is not there.
Full disclosure: I build PingKit, so weigh the recommendation accordingly. The comparison below is written to stay useful even if you pick something else, and the limits section is not padding. Competitor features and pricing change, so check the current listing before you decide.
Why It Is Not on iOS
Two reasons, and only one of them is technical.
The practical one is that Angry IP Scanner is written in Java with SWT for its interface. Neither runs on iOS. A port would be a rewrite, not a recompile.
The technical one is that some of what desktop scanners do casually is restricted on iOS. Raw socket access is unavailable to App Store apps, so ICMP behaviour is more constrained and full UDP scanning is out of reach. Sweeping a range with TCP connect probes and ICMP echo, however, is entirely possible, and that covers most of what people use Angry IP Scanner for at home.
What an iPhone Can Actually Do
| Angry IP Scanner feature | On iOS? | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Ping sweep of a range | Yes | Standard on iOS scanners |
| Hostname resolution | Yes | Via reverse DNS and mDNS |
| MAC address and vendor | Partly | See the limits section below |
| TCP port checking | Yes | Connect scan only |
| Arbitrary large ranges | Limited | Practical on a local segment |
| CSV / XML export | Varies | App dependent |
| Plugin / script extensions | No | No equivalent on iOS |
Doing It with PingKit
PingKit's LAN Scanner sweeps your local segment and lists every host that responds. Each result is named using the signals a phone can legitimately collect: vendor prefixes, Bonjour and SSDP service advertisements, hostnames, and the pattern of open ports. A printer that advertises IPP, a Sonos speaker announcing itself over SSDP and a Synology NAS with its usual ports open are all recognisable this way.
From any result you can jump straight into the Port Scanner, ping it, or run a traceroute. There are 19 tools in total, all free, with no ads and no account.
Honest Limits on iPhone
- MAC addresses are not reliably available. Modern iOS returns a placeholder address for peers rather than the real hardware address, so vendor lookup from OUI alone is not dependable. PingKit works around this by naming devices from the services they advertise, which in practice identifies more devices than a MAC lookup would.
- The sweep is scoped to your local segment. That is deliberate. Very wide ranges are slow and rarely what someone on a phone actually wants.
- TCP only. PingKit does not probe UDP, and full UDP scanning is impossible on iOS in any case.
- No plugin system. Nothing equivalent to Angry IP Scanner's fetchers.
Which Should You Use?
You are at a desk: keep using Angry IP Scanner. It is free, fast and good, and a phone is not an upgrade.
You are standing in front of the router or the device: a phone scanner wins on convenience, which is most of the point.
You need scripted or scheduled scanning: that is a desktop or server job.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is there an Angry IP Scanner app for iPhone?
No. Angry IP Scanner is a Java desktop application for Windows, macOS and Linux. There is no iOS version, and porting it would require a full rewrite since Java and SWT do not run on iOS.
What is the best Angry IP Scanner alternative for iPhone?
A native iOS LAN scanner. PingKit provides a free local network sweep with device naming plus a TCP port scanner and 17 other tools. Other options include Fing, iNet and Scany, each with different trade-offs on ads, price and depth.
Can an iPhone see MAC addresses of other devices?
Not reliably. Recent iOS versions return a placeholder MAC address for network peers, so vendor identification from the OUI prefix is unreliable. Better iOS scanners identify devices from Bonjour, SSDP and hostname signals instead.
Can I scan a large IP range from an iPhone?
In practice you are limited to your local segment. Wide range sweeps are slow on a phone and most iOS scanners scope the sweep to the network you are connected to.
Does PingKit scan UDP ports?
Not in the full sense. Distinguishing a closed UDP port from a filtered one relies on seeing ICMP port-unreachable replies, and that needs raw sockets, which iOS does not grant to App Store apps. An app can still send a UDP datagram and detect a service that answers, so limited UDP probing is possible. PingKit's port scanner is TCP connect only.
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