WiFi Manager for Huawei Routers
Because browser's UI is shit
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Because browser's UI is shit
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Huawei never made a proper app for these routers. Their web interface is slow, clunky, and completely unusable when your connection is acting up. This app gives you the full picture — connected devices, internet schedules, parental controls, WiFi settings — right on your phone. No browser. No typing IP addresses. Works whether you've never touched a router setting or you run the network for your whole household.
I got tired of opening a browser tab just to see what was connected to my
router.
The Huawei web interface at 192.168.100.1 is slow on a good day. When your
internet is misbehaving — which is exactly when you need to get into your
router — it's basically unusable. You're sitting there waiting for a page
to load on the very connection that's broken, trying to fix the thing
that's breaking it. And Huawei had no app for these models at all.
So I reverse-engineered it and built one.
What it does:
→ See every device on your network in real time — names, IPs, online
status, wired vs wireless.
→ Block any device from the internet instantly. One tap, no menus.
→ Set internet schedules — recurring weekly blocks or a one-time block
for tonight. Bedtime, study hours, focus time.
→ Parental controls per device. Each person's phone gets its own rule,
not a blanket block on the whole network.
→ Reboot the router, manage WiFi settings, check WAN status — without
touching a laptop.
Important — supported routers:
This app works with Huawei routers that use the standard HiLink web
interface (the one at 192.168.100.1 in your browser). If you can log
into that page on your home network, the app will work for you. It does
not support Huawei enterprise routers, 4G/LTE portable hotspots, or
models that use a different admin interface. Check the Play Store listing
for the supported model list before downloading.
Who it's for:
Anyone with a supported Huawei home router. You don't need to know what
a subnet is. But if you're the household IT person managing six devices
for everyone else, you'll get a lot out of it too.
It found its own audience:
Launched March 16 with no marketing. DAU went from 1,132 on day two to
2,392 by April 3 — 17 consecutive days of growth, not one down day,
entirely from organic Play Store search. Turns out a lot of people were
already looking for exactly this. There was just nothing good to find.
Pricing:
Free to download. Core features are completely free. Advanced features
like parental controls and internet scheduling are premium — unlock
permanently with a one-time purchase. No subscription. No account required.
I launched this app on March 16. No posts, no ads, no campaign. Just
put it on the Play Store and watched what happened.
Here's the 19-day picture:
— 5,100+ total installs
— DAU: 1,132 on day two → 2,392 by April 3
— 17 consecutive days of growth, zero down days
— ~79 new daily active users added every day, all organic
— 400+ DAU currently
— 8 minutes average session length
— 4.52 stars · 58 ratings · 40 written reviews
— 66% store listing conversion rate
— $30 in in-app purchases from people who found it themselves
— Users across Pakistan, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia,
and 10+ other countries
Pakistan makes up roughly half the user base. Huawei routers are
extremely common there and there's been nothing decent to manage
them with — the demand was already there, just completely unserved.
The whole thing is reverse-engineered from scratch. No official API
docs exist for these routers, so I captured browser traffic with HAR
files, traced the token flow, and mapped out every call. The parental
controls alone need a 3-step API sequence in a specific order with
tokens sourced from specific pages — the kind of thing you only figure
out by getting your hands dirty for a few weeks.
One small feature that sounds minor until it bites you: the app detects
when the router's internal clock is out of sync with your phone's local
time and tells you exactly how many hours off it is. If you've ever set
a 10 PM bedtime block and had it fire at 5 PM, you know exactly why
that exists.
One thing I want to be upfront about: the "Account" benchmark in Play
Console reviews sits at 1.8 stars, which drags the overall rating down
slightly. The reason is a compatibility expectation gap — some users
download it assuming it'll work on any Huawei device (including 4G
hotspots, enterprise routers, or models with different firmware) and
leave a 1-star when it doesn't connect. That's a me-problem to fix with
clearer store listing copy, not a product flaw, but I'd rather say it
plainly than have someone discover it after downloading.
Outside of that, the category scores are: Design 5.0, Stability 5.0,
Usability 5.0, Speed 4.6, Updates 5.0. People who have a compatible
router are happy.
Current crash-free rate is 94.5% — one build flagged for investigation
and that's my immediate priority before anything else.
Android only right now. iOS is Flutter so it's a clean port — it's next.
If you have a supported Huawei router and you've been putting up with
the browser, give it a try. And if it doesn't work with your model,
tell me anyway — I'd rather have that feedback than lose you silently.
Happy to answer anything