Network Reports and Evidence PDFs from your iPhone

A screenshot is not evidence

Everyone who has argued with an internet provider, a landlord or a facilities manager has reached the same point: you know what you experienced, and you have nothing to show for it. A speed-test screenshot is a single moment, cropped, from a phone, with no history behind it. It is easy to wave away and it usually is.

PingKit keeps every test you run in a local history with no retention limit and no usage cap, and turns that history into a document. Not a screenshot of a number, but a dated record of what was measured, when, and by what.

What people actually use it for

Disputing an ISP's account of the service

A fortnight of dated speed tests and diagnostics, exported as one file, is a different conversation from "it feels slow in the evenings". If you also have per-network trends, you can point at the date the decline started.

Before signing a lease or taking an office

Run a set of tests during the viewing and export the report the same day. What the listing claims and what the connection delivers at 7pm on a Wednesday are frequently different numbers, and one of them is now written down.

Client and tenant handovers

If you set up networks for other people, a report at handover records the state you left things in. It is a small professional courtesy that also settles arguments later.

Compliance evidence

Guardian Plus includes a separate ISO 27001 evidence export covering network controls, alongside certificate expiry monitoring. That is a different document from the report described here, aimed at auditors rather than arguments.

Scheduled and branded reports

For people who produce these regularly, PingKit 2.1 adds two things to the report itself, both in Guardian Plus.

Your name on the document

Set an organisation name and who the report was prepared for, and both appear in the header. The result reads as a document from your business rather than a screenshot from an app. PingKit is still credited on the page, because a report should say what produced it.

A schedule that tells you when one is due

Choose weekly or monthly, and PingKit tracks when the next report is due and prepares it the next time you open the app. It is worth being precise about what that does and does not mean: iOS does not allow an app to build and file documents in the background, so nothing is generated or sent while PingKit is closed. The schedule is a due date and a prompt, not a delivery service, and describing it as anything else would be a promise the operating system will not let the app keep.

Pricing

The report, the exports and the unlimited history are free. Scheduled and branded reports are part of Guardian Plus, which is $9.99 a month or $79.99 a year on iPhone and iPad. Guardian Plus also includes certificate expiry monitoring and the ISO 27001 evidence export. On the Mac, Guardian Plus is $4.99 a month.