Prism Ping
Coming Soon

For iPhone & iPad · Free

The ping app, reimagined.

One field, one button — and everything a technician or gamer wants underneath. Real ICMP over IPv4 and IPv6, a live latency chart, honest statistics, and exact controls.

Coming Soon

Prism Ping is on its way to the App Store — this page will flip to a download button as soon as it goes live.

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Type a host. Tap Ping. That's the whole app — until you need more.

Prism Ping opens on a single field and a single button. Underneath sit the things ping apps usually leave out: a resolved address you can always see, per-reply rows with sequence, bytes, TTL and round-trip time, a console-style log, and statistics that tell you what your connection is really doing.

IPv4 and IPv6 — ping any hostname or IP; the resolved address is always shown.

Down to 100 ms — set the interval, timeout, size, TTL and count exactly.

Nothing collected — no ads, no account, no analytics, no subscription.

Features

Here is exactly what ships in the app.

Real ICMP ping, IPv4 and IPv6

Ping any hostname or IP address. The resolved address is always shown — even when every reply times out — so you know exactly what you reached for.

Live chart and per-reply detail

A live latency chart, a row for every reply with timestamp, sequence, bytes, TTL and round-trip time, and a console-style log underneath.

Exact controls, not sliders

Steppers and numeric fields for interval (down to 100 ms), timeout, packet size, TTL, and count or continuous. Type the number you mean.

Audible ping and haptics

Hear and feel replies — sound on reply, on loss, or when latency crosses a threshold you set. Watch the cable, not the screen.

Favorites, recents, and groups

Hosts you ping stick around. Group them, favorite them, and start a new session with one tap.

Watch several hosts at once

The Watch tab monitors multiple hosts side by side, each with a status pill and a sparkline.

The tools next to ping

DNS lookup (A, AAAA, and reverse), TCP port check, and My Network — your interfaces and local IP addresses, plus an optional show-public-IP button.

Every session, saved on device

Replay the chart, read the full log, and share any session as text or CSV. History never leaves your phone unless you share it.

Built for iPhone and iPad

Light and dark mode, Dynamic Type, and layouts sized for both screens.

Statistics that mean something

Every session reports the numbers a technician reaches for and the ones a gamer actually feels.

  • Sent, received, lost, and loss %
  • Min, average, max, and standard deviation
  • Jitter
  • p50, p95, and p99 latency
  • A quality grade from A+ to F

Honest about the background

iOS limits how long an app can keep running after you leave it — roughly 30 seconds. Prism Ping says so plainly instead of hiding it, and every session records why it stopped, so a background cutoff never gets mistaken for a real outage.

For longer runs, keep the app in front, or turn on audible ping and let your ears do the watching.

Feature lists describe the current build and may change as the app evolves.

The only traffic is the traffic you asked for

Prism Ping collects nothing and talks to no one on your behalf. The packets it sends are exactly what you typed: ICMP echo requests to your hosts, DNS lookups through your device's resolver, and TCP connection attempts for port checks. Favorites and history stay on your device. The one optional exception — the show-public-IP button — asks a public what-is-my-IP service only when you tap it.

Support

Answers to the questions we hear most, and a direct line to us for everything else.

Why did my ping stop after about 30 seconds in the background?

iOS limits how long an app can keep running once it leaves the foreground — roughly 30 seconds. Prism Ping says so plainly rather than pretending otherwise, and every session records why it stopped so you can tell a background cutoff from a real outage.

Does Prism Ping collect any data?

No. There are no ads, no account, no analytics, no third-party SDKs, and no subscription. Favorites and history live on your device in the app's own storage.

What does the “show public IP” button do?

It asks a public “what is my IP” service for the address your network presents to the internet. That is the only third-party request the app ever makes, and it happens only when you tap the button.

The host timed out — why do I still see an IP address?

The app always shows the address a hostname resolved to, even when no replies come back. That tells you DNS worked and the problem is somewhere past it.

How fast can I ping?

The interval goes down to 100 ms. Timeout, packet size, TTL, and count (or continuous) are all set with exact steppers and numeric fields.

Can I export a session?

Yes. Open it in History and share it as text or CSV. Every session is saved on the device with its chart and full log.

Need a hand?

Questions, bug reports, or feedback about Prism Ping? Send us a note and we'll get back to you.

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