pingVu watches your cellular and Wi-Fi connections through a dead zone and alerts you the instant service is verified usable again — a real connection has to complete, not just bars reappearing.
COMING SOON — pingVu is in final testing ahead of its App Store release.
Free to use · Premium field tools $1.99/mo or $14.99/yr · No accounts, no ads, no tracking
Signal bars aren't a promise — and no third-party app can even read them. Phones give apps no public way to see the bars in your status bar, so apps that claim to measure or "boost" them are guessing. pingVu is deliberately honest: it never pretends to read the bars. It proves your connection works by opening a real, secure connection over the exact network being checked — and only then tells you service is back.
See how it workspingVu monitors your cellular and Wi-Fi paths independently, in real time, using public system APIs — including whether the path looks constrained or expensive.
Before ever alerting you, it completes a real secure connection over the specific network being checked. Traffic actually flowed — or no alert.
The moment service is verified back: sound, haptics, or silent — your choice, per network and per quality tier, with escalating reminders if you miss it.
Rough direction toward better signal, built from your own recent samples, community coverage, and a cell-tower directory. Honest about being rough.
Download, upload, ping, jitter, packet loss — plus an estimated call quality (MOS) score computed with the industry-standard ITU-T E-model.
Streams a short test video and measures what streaming actually feels like: startup time, stalls, and the quality level your connection sustains.
Your personal map of where service worked and where it didn't — plus an optional anonymous community layer showing real verified coverage.
Draft texts and calls while you're offline. The moment service is verified back, they're one tap from going out — nothing ever auto-sends.
Bigger controls, higher contrast, boosted alerts, screen-awake — built for gloves, glare, and jobsites. Plus widgets and Live Activity.
Every cell on the pingVu community map comes from a real device that verified a real connection — shared anonymously by users who opted in. Locations are coarsened to roughly 150-meter areas and 15-minute windows on the phone, before anything is sent. No accounts, no identifiers, ever.
Community sharing is currently available in the United States.
Explore the coverage mapNo app needed — run pingVu's connection check in your browser: download, upload, latency, and jitter, graded in plain language.
Run the free speed testThe web test sends no data to pingVu — results live and die in your browser.
Everything pingVu records stays on your device unless you explicitly opt in to anonymous community sharing — and even then, anonymization happens on your phone before anything is transmitted. The developer publicly commits to never attempting to re-identify contributed data. This website holds itself to the same standard: no ad pixels, no trackers.
Read the privacy policypingVu for Android is in development. Android's public APIs expose actual RF signal measurements that iPhones don't, so the Android app will report measured signal strength alongside the same verified usability tiers. Leave your email and be first to know.
One email when pingVu lands on Google Play. Nothing else, and your address is never shared.
