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PingKing

Know exactly how good the Wi‑Fi is. From your desk to 45,000 feet.

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iPhone and iPad · iOS 17 or later

PingKing Ping tab: live replies from google.com on port 443, averaging 8 ms PingKing Speed test tab: 733.3 Mbps download, 239.9 Mbps upload, 34 ms ping, 15 ms jitter PingKing History tab: groups by tail number and aircraft with stability scores
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Evidence, not a snapshot

Every ping session and speed test is kept, grouped by flight, and exportable as a formatted report.

Measurement suited to satellite links

Four concurrent streams with the warm-up excluded, because single-stream tests understate high-latency service.

Works at altitude

318,943 aircraft registrations carried on board. Tail verification needs no connection at all.

Nothing leaves the device

No account, no analytics, no advertising. Results are encrypted locally and excluded from backups.

Most speed tests tell you what the connection is doing right now, then forget it. PingKing records what it was doing across an entire flight, files it against the aircraft it came from, and produces a report you can hand to a provider.

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Every reply, measured.

Everything in the Standard edition, on the App Store today for iPhone and iPad.

Continuous ping. Reachability and latency against any host, at an interval you set. Every reply and timeout shown, with running totals.

Multi-stream speed test. Four concurrent download streams measure latency, jitter, download, and upload, and show where the test was served from.

Grouped by aircraft. Tests are filed under the tail number, type, route, connection, provider, and flight time they belong to.

Offline tail verification. Registrations are checked against an FAA registry carried in the app. No connection required.

Stability scoring. The share of packets that arrived, per flight, in color bands, so 96% and 99.6% don’t look alike.

One flight, in full. Tail, type, route, provider, and every test it contains.

Reports that leave the device. A formatted PDF per flight, a comparison report across several, or CSV for your own analysis.

Measured for satellite links.

Three choices that make PingKing’s numbers differ from other apps.

Four concurrent streams

One TCP connection cannot fill a high-latency pipe. Single-stream tests routinely report a fraction of a satellite link’s real capacity.

Warm-up excluded

TCP ramps up. Measuring from the first byte penalizes exactly the high-latency links this app exists to assess.

TCP rather than ICMP

iOS does not permit raw ICMP for ordinary apps. Timing a TCP handshake answers the same question, and works where ICMP is dropped.

Nothing leaves the device.

Results are stored only on your device, encrypted at rest.

  • No account
  • No analytics
  • No advertising
  • No tracking
  • Encrypted on device
  • Excluded from backups
  • Erase any time

Speed tests transfer randomly generated data with a server we operate. It is not configured to log requests.

Forthcoming release

Flight Tracking.

Everything the Standard edition does, plus the aircraft identifying itself. Enter a tail number and PingKing retrieves live type, route, and position from Flightradar24, then plots where the connection held and where it didn’t. These features are not in the released app.

Aircraft identification

Next release

Type and route, filled in

Enter the registration and the type, origin, and destination populate from live ADS-B.

Any registration, not just US

The onboard registry covers N-numbers. Flightradar24 resolves Maltese, Cayman, and the rest.

Position recorded with the test

Latitude, longitude, altitude, and ground speed captured alongside each measurement.

Fewer fields to fill

Three of six group fields populate themselves. That’s the difference between logging a test and not bothering.

Mapped outages

In development
Route map from KOPF to LSZH colored by measured throughput, with two service interruptions marked over the Atlantic
>100 Mbps 20–100 <20 LSZH–KOPF · two interruptions, 71 min total
The route flown, colored by measured throughput, with every service interruption marked where it happened. The same map prints into the PDF report alongside a table giving each interruption’s coordinates, duration, and the conditions at the time.

Why this matters for a provider conversation

“The connection was poor somewhere over the Atlantic” is an anecdote. “Service degraded for 52 minutes beginning 240 nm southwest of Shannon, at FL430” is a claim a provider can check against their own logs, and answer.
What Flight Tracking will need. Lookups run through a Flightradar24 API subscription and are requested manually rather than automatically, so usage stays predictable. Results are cached for the session, since an aircraft’s type and route do not change mid-flight. Aircraft whose operators have opted out of public tracking will not resolve; this is common in business aviation and no subscription changes it. The onboard FAA registry continues to work regardless, with no connection at all.

Features in this section are not in the released app and are described for planning purposes; specifications may change.

Editions compared.

What ships when.

Capability StandardAvailable now Flight TrackingForthcoming
Measurement
Continuous ping, configurable interval
Four-stream speed test
Stability scoring per flight
Records
Grouping by aircraft, route, and provider
PDF and CSV export
Multi-flight comparison report
Aircraft identification
Offline FAA registry (318,943 N-numbers)
Live type and route from ADS-B—
Non-US registrations resolved—
Position captured with each test—
Mapping
Route plotted and colored by throughput—
Interruptions marked where they occurred—
Map and interruption table in the PDF—
Requirements
Works with no connectionPartial
Flightradar24 API subscription—Required
Available now

Everything in Standard

Ping, speed testing, grouping, stability scoring, offline tail verification, and both report formats.

Next release

Aircraft identification

Built and tested against the live Flightradar24 API; awaiting release.

In development

Mapped outages

Designed, not yet built. No date committed.

Mensara Software

Precise apps for iPhone and iPad.

Mensara Software LLC is an independent studio in Virginia. We build a small number of apps and give each one close attention, so every screen earns its place.

One job, done well

Each app is built around a single question and answers it quickly.

Numbers you can trust

Results are shown plainly, with enough context to compare them over time.

At home on Apple devices

Familiar controls and layouts, so the app feels right from the first launch.

Get in touch.

Questions about PingKing, feedback, or anything else. For support, include your device and iOS version.

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