Wi-Fi SweetSpots Reviews

We’ve all had the experience of being disappointed by a product or service and consequently left a negative review. Therefore, I believe it important to leave a positive review when you find a product that exceeds your expectations. WiFiSweetSpots was critical to diagnosing Internet issues in my home. Rather than spend a lot of money buying new hardware and hoping Wi-Fi got better, I was able to measure the Wi-Fi performance and find this data led me to identify the real problem and therefore,the right solution which ended up not being my the Wi-Fi router but an obsolete cable modem that was losing connection with Xfinity. I thank the developers of WiFiSweetSpots and really appreciate how much is taught me about how Wi-Fi works at my own home. With WiFiSweetSpots I ruled out my Wi-Fi router as the issue and instead of investing hundreds in new wifi equipment I spent $60 on a new cable modem that is rated for my current Xfinity service.

Works with iOS 13.3, and provides useful indication of your WiFi coverage by evaluating data transfer speeds.

I was simply looking for a simple WiFi signal strength-meter, either a moving needle or a multi-segment bar. WiFiSweetSpots instead displays real-time data transfer speeds on a moving chart and that’s really much more valuable.

I have no idea if the Mbps speed displayed is precisely accurate (it may be), but even if it isn’t, being able to move about and see the relative change in indicated speed is sufficient to be able to determine optimal locations and weak spots. Very nice that you can see the ongoing continuous fluctuations in speed or hold a “button” and see an accumulative average.

I think it’s a great tool, very useful for someone looking to optimize their WiFi data transfer rate. Moving just at a few feet can sometimes make quite a difference. I can see this being useful outside my home too, particularly when choosing seating in areas with public WiFi.

It is important that the user understands that this does not search for WiFi sources in your vicinity, rather this evaluates (faster speed = stronger signal) the WiFi source you are already connected with.

I’m using WiFiSweetSpots on an iPhone X running iOS 13.3 and I’m quite pleased with it.

Great app.... but it drives me insane that to do a useful 1 minute test I have to HOLD the button for 60 full seconds and ADD 60 to the current running time. The only useful way to run this tests is in 30, 60 or 90 second scans for average speed.... why can’t this have a simple preference to set an average scan time ? Also, another minor annoyance is the super short pop up of suggested names when you want to rename a location. This should be a full size lists with permanent custom default names as well as recent names . I love WiFiSweetSpots.. LOVE it! But those 2 things drive me absolutely batty nuts every time with frustration.

When passing through different access points of the same wifi name/credentials (poor-man's-mesh-networking) the mac address of the wifi access point never updates but the signal meter continues (you can't map overlapping "cells" to know which AP you're connected to so you know which AP to adjust). It stays as the mac addr first AP you started on.

The feedback window doesn't scroll and the keyboard covers all but four lines of text. You can't read what you've typed without painfully dismissing the keyboard and hope you hit the right word to edit. When I tried to submit this feedback in-app it told me to enter an email address in the settings menu, but there's no place in the settings menu inside WiFiSweetSpots to do that. I have to supply feedback through a review.

Great feedback on connection strength within a home network for device data from router. Helpful to understand coarse impact of location effect on your Wi-Fi potential (assess interference factors which could be numerous or straight forward depending)
It is not measure of speed from home to isp/dns at all but rather from router to a device. Does what it says it does, and useful.

Only quip is ‘hold button’ to average could be made into perhaps collect 30 or 90 sec of information for average as a button rather than manual press and hold.

If you’re looking for a meter to tell you WiFi signal strength WiFiSweetSpots does exactly that. Easy to use and easy to interpret. Only complaint was once I had recorded several locations strength in order to map out the SweetSpots I quit WiFiSweetSpots and lost my records. It would be nice to have a “save data” reminder or auto save on close feature so the spots you’ve recorded over some timed interval would be preserved.

I found the best place in my house for my access point with this. The top floor of my house in a central location was miles better than where I had it before.

You can’t use tools like Speedtest because your constrained by the speed of your isp. I don’t know what clever magic they use (routing data from the phone back to itself?). This overcomes the silly limitation that Apple imposes by not allowing access to signal strength.

I’ve owned several network analyzer apps that dished out a bunch of information that was way over my head. All I wanted to know was how my wifi was getting around my property. Ya, there were sweetspots and deadspots. I also learned my 5meg transmitter wasn’t getting out of the room it was sitting in. Didn’t take long to find out the power level had been turned down to 25% in the router. Dah. Now there are many many more 5meg sweetspots around the house. Great app!

This is a very useful and accurate app to have. Every time I have problem with my Wi-Fi I can check exactly in which area inside my home I am having that problem so make it easier to solve it. I can also record the information and save it to use it in future if I need to make a complain with my internet provider or so. Don’t doubt in downloading it

I use this smartphone productivity app to measure the strength of my Internet connection whether it be at home, work, school, or abroad. It definitely performs its main function quite well although sometimes I have issues with WiFiSweetSpots. The only way you'll know if WiFiSweetSpots floats your boat is if you test it out just like I did awhile ago.

My children were complaining about the Wi-Fi and me being an Engineer wanted quantifiable data. I downloaded WiFiSweetSpots and walked around the house and found the two dead spots, their bedrooms. Got a links’s Velop and installed it and compared it to the previous Wi-Fi settings. Sooo much better, and WiFiSweetSpots helped me with optimizing the location of the Velop. Easy and fun to use.

Since the recent update for iOS my test speeds have gone from 700 to 900 to 200 to 250. My actual Internet test speeds are upwards to 500 and there’s no abnormal traffic on my network. If I had an issue with interference I would think it would be impacting my Internet test babe but 500 is pretty much Max in my environment for my Google Wifi system. All in all my performance is fine on the Internet but it seems like something is happened within the application impacting test results

WiFiSweetSpots is great for find dead spots and quickly assessing whether you efforts to improve wifi coverage are workin. I simply did the inventory by going to all the areas I use it might use my laptop, tablet, anything WiFi. I recorded the readings with the location identifier. Mapped it mentally it's a small apartment. And the adjust location and direction of the the router till I had awesome coverage.

I may have been looking in the wrong place for years, but I’ve never found an app that does what WiFiSweetSpots does in such a simple, straight-forward interface. WiFiSweetSpots was very helpful in locating dead spots throughout my home. It appears that my mesh system wasn’t as “whole home” as I expected. Great work SweetSpots.

I wanted to see where my WiFi weak spots in my two level home are. I have Gigbit Internet on a Netgear CM1150V modem and a Netgear Nighthawk XS6.

I started WiFiSweetSpots and walked around my home and WiFiSweetSpots showed me everything I needed to know! I can see where my weak spots are (my home was built in 1935). So we were experiencing weak zones.

I now know where to improve and place my Router. Thanks to the developers for a nice app!

Easy to use! WiFiSweetSpots will let you know quickly how bad your Wi-Fi signal really is and where all of the dead zones are. No more automatically thinking it’s your Internet Service Provider. It just might be your lame wireless router, like it was mine. There IS a difference in WiFi routers...a BIG difference. Come to the light by knowing the FACTS!

I’ve used WiFiSweetSpots in the past and enjoyed it greatly. However on iOS 15.1 it does not seem to work. Is anyone else having the same problem? I noticed it was just updated a week ago which is well after 15 was released

I tried a couple apps and this was exactly what I was looking for. Turn on the sound and you basically have WiFi “radar” that lets you figure out where your home’s deadZones are. Perfect for figuring out where you might need WiFi extender.

Assuming WiFiSweetSpots is correctly calculating the data transfer rate, WiFiSweetSpots is very helpful. But why not also show the Wi-Fi signal strength like RSSI and dBm? What about 2.4 or 5 Ghz and the current channel? WiFiSweetSpots seems to show the MAC address of the first Access Point it started with, even if the connection switches to another AP or the original AP is turned off, WiFiSweetSpots never refreshes the MAC.

My ISP's installer recommended this for me to check the Wifi speed between the AP and my iPhone. At first it seemed to work but soon became buggy. I would start next to my AirPort Extreme and WiFiSweetSpots would report 500mbps. Good. I moved to another room several walls away and the speed dropped to 60. Good. But when I moved back to the Airport spot, the speed remained at 60. I quit WiFiSweetSpots via Task Switcher and relaunched it, still only 60! I tried again and WiFiSweetSpots froze at "preparing..."! Now it always freezes. So strange and bad.

WiFiSweetSpots works well. You can pay $1.99 to remove ads. The ads are not so annoying that you cannot stand using WiFiSweetSpots . This is refreshing. I am more likely to upgrade WiFiSweetSpots than those that make it cumbersome to work around the ads.

Takes the guess work out of relative location vs signal strength. Wifi coverage in some areas in the house are abysmal. Now I have a tool to see if equipment relocation / tweaking is making any significant difference. Simple reliable tool for simple problems.