Firewalla Reviews
4/5 rating based on 50 reviews. Read all reviews for Firewalla for iPhone.
Firewalla is free iOS app published by ROTTIESOFT LLC
Great Firewall, simple to use, but powerful
Nutcracker13
If you want to protect your network and have great visibility into what is going on under the hood, Firewalla is a great solution. It’s easy to install and shows all the devices connected to that network. For each device you can see the traffic and where they are connecting to. You can limit access to the Internet, gaming, porn, social networks and videos. It supports both VPN server and client allowing remote network connections while limiting which devices can use that connection. Is supports DNS caching, encrypting DNS requests limiting your ISP ability to track what you are doing and supports ad blocking. Highly recommended
Slow VPN
Thatxjguy
The VPN feature needs work. My home internet supports 50Mb/s, and my cellular provider supports 150Mb/s. So why is my VPN through my home router throttled to 10-15Mb/s? Clearly this needs work. I should be getting at least 50 given the numbers aforementioned.
Great App and Firewall Device
frontranger1
The Firewalla team has done a great job developing an app and device that is both powerful and easy to use for a normal person. There are many features that work well. The VPN feature is easily my favorite other than the usual firewall features like intrusion detection and prevention and IP upstream/downstream blocking.
Firewalla Blue basic FW
Rrod6902
This is a great product if all you want to do is block traffic and keep family from certain sites. It is also good for monitoring your IoT devices. But very horrible job of setting allow statements. There is none. No white listing. If monitoring any Alexa Dots or Echos you cannot reach these from outside of your network. Also I can not use my vpn while paying bills or using the internet. The manufacturers suggests “stop monitoring” those devices. That is not an acceptable solution because then you cannot are traffic flows. Overall I give it a one star because it does not support the features I stated above.
App is intuitive and performs very well
Ray Zoller
Firewalla Red is easy to set up and does what it’s advertised to do. In retrospect I would probably spend the extra 80 bucks to get the Firewalla Blue with its extra features. The app works really well and gives me the features and functionality I need.
Installing Firewalla
Already with the nickname
Had I known installation required turning off dhcp on a isp provided WiFi router I might have thought twice before purchase. I kinda feel like I was lead to believe it was all plug & play. Now I’m at the point of trying to get the isp to reset the WiFi router to reset the password, now I’m wondering what’s next after disabling dhcp... Buyers be ware
Simple and effective
10%ofnothing
We have had the Firewalla blue for several months now and it has been very helpful in ensuring our home network security. Pros Let’s you know what devices are on your net with usage and connections details. Built in VPN which works great. Notifications of changes on the network. Outbound and inbound data usage. Services in use. List goes on and we don’t even use all of the attributes. No latency that I have been able to detect. Let’s me know when new devices are introduced to the network. Cons Can’t think of any. Overall excellent device with a very low learning curve and excellent support. Can not recommend it enough.
Great device
fl1p7
It provides insight into your network. You can control what your kids are viewing. Highly recommend it.