Paid $80 and got told your WiFi was on. That's on you for trusting a podcast ad. The guy probably made bank off that. Free router admin page does more, yeah, but most folks never log into it. They don't know the IP, don't know the password, don't know what WPA2 even means. So a dumb app that at least gets them to look at their network is not nothing. You paid for a reminder to care. Worth $80? No. Worth something? Sure.

Same here, @joseph_adams66, kept a little battery one in my kitchen drawer for years and it saved us during that big outage two winters back. We got nothing on the phone but the AM news station came in clear as day, so we knew which roads were closed and when the crews were coming. My kids thought I was nuts for hanging onto it until that night. Best 25 bucks I ever spent, honestly.