12 best iPhone apps for IT professionals: Apps for IT pros: Best network and utility apps

Spiceworks, a well-known online community for IT professionals offers a mobile app enabling access to its community forums and discussions, for free.

This iPhone app, used by over 1 million IT pros worldwide, enables users to view their network inventory and open a ticket for any existing issues, offer help to others in the community and update information on their Spiceworks account.

Download Spiceworks.

ITmanager.net offers an all-in-one tools for network administrators to securely monitor and manage a variety of enterprise-level servers including VMware, Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop, XenServer, Windows, Microsoft Exchange, Hyper-V, Active Directory, SSH, Telnet, Amazon Web Services and Apple Remote Desktop (to name a few).

ITmanager.net will view, analyse and remotely monitor virtual machines and environments, reset passwords, manage routers, switches, network attached storage devices and printers, manage applications and provide a task scheduler, DNS manager and command prompt for Windows servers.

Download ITmanager.net.

iWork is a suite of applications designed for Apple users aiming to replace the need for Microsoft Office.

iWork includes Pages, Keynote and Numbers which allow users to create a variety of documents on their iPhones. All documents can be saved via iCloud and can be easily accessed across all Apple devices. 

Download iWork.

Comprised of 32 individual tools, this iPhone app scans and analyses local or public networks for security issues or incorrect configurations.

Scanning options include Wi-Fi network IP scanning, port scanning and SHODAN scan engine integration which exposes online devices, their country, port, network and hostname.

Other notable tools include FTP and SFTP clients, IP calculation, HTTP browser, mail server check, socket analysis and terminal tool, ping IP or domain and map search.

Download NetworkToolbox.

Pingdom offers IT pros insight into the uptime, downtime, and overall performance of their website. 

Pingdom will view the current status and response times for each site of the monitored sites and provide notifications, root-cause analysis and quick switches between accounts, if needed.

Download Pingdom.

Developed for network administrators and IT managers, LANScan offers a Wi-Fi network scanner.

The tool provides information about all the devices on a local network, allowing users to drill down into the network providing TCP Connect scanning, ARP scanning, port scanning, information on devices broadcasting Bonjour services, reverse DNS and remote 'wake' devices configured to LAN.

Download LANScan.

Speedtest.pro enables users to test the speed of their Wi-Fi connection and add results to a general database for analysis in (they claim) under 20 seconds.

This app tracks past speeds, calculates how long file transfers will take and compares the data with other networks.

It's a simple app, but very useful to determine what's slowing a network down and calculating how much time should be set aside for large data downloads or transfers.

Download Speedtest.pro.

LogMeIn offers a secure pathway between desktop PCs, its files and your iPhone by providing remote access to PCs and Macs over Wi-Fi or mobile data.

LogMeIn users can access both home and work computers, access and edit __computer files from your iPhone and remotely run any application on your __computer via your iPhone.

Download LogMeIn. 

It's important to note that users of this app will require a subscription to LogMeIn Pro. More here.

CamScanner Pro for iPhone enables users to essentially turn their phone into a portable scanner. Using CamScanner Pro, users can take a photo of a document, save it as an image file or PDF and share them with colleagues via email or the cloud, print or fax.

Ideal for receipts, notes, invoices, meeting notes, business cards and certificates, this app can integrate with Dropbox, Google Drive, Evernote, OneDrive and Box and sync across multiple devices.

CamScanner does offer a basic version for free with 200MB of cloud storage for up to 10 people and a premium option providing an additional 10GB of cloud data for up to 50 people.

Download CamScanner Pro.

The Adobe Acrobat reader enables users to view, annotate and share PDFs, for free. Users can comment on files, offer feedback and sign forms with via Adobe’s file reader. This app is ideal for any IT pro that collaborates often, requiring instant viewable feedback.

Adobe Acrobat reader offers a few subscription levels from £7.99 to £69.99.

Download Adobe Acrobat reader.

For those working with Microsoft's Active Directory, Active Directory Assist enables users to view and manage users, groups, and computers from their iPhone.

Users can remotely can reset passwords, edit user accounts and group memberships and perform other admin tasks. Active Directory Assist supports compatible with Windows 2003, Windows 2008, Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 2012 and can directly connect to the Active Directory server via Wi-Fi or VPN.

Download Active Directory Assist.

Network Utility enables users to check their web server over the internet and locate network information such as internal and external IP, network name, MAC address, gateway address, subnet mask and DNS addresses.

Offering a real-time map, users can visualise PING response times and other real-time statistics.

Download Network Utility.