Features — Beyond Site Website & SSL Monitor

Everything below is included, and free during our launch period. We plan to add an optional paid plan later; a free plan will always remain.

NewHome-Screen Widget

Your status at a glance, without opening the app.

The Same Four Figures

Total, Up, Issues and Cert — with exactly the same wording and colours as the top of the main screen

Light & Dark

Follows your device theme and switches the moment it changes

Every Size

Small, medium and large on iPhone, plus extra large on iPad

Needs Attention List

The larger sizes name each site that is down or has a certificate problem, worst first, with the reason

Lock Screen

A ring of sites up, a three-line summary, or a single line beside the clock

One-Tap Refresh

The refresh button opens Beyond Site and checks every site straight away

Always Current

Updates whenever the app or a background check records new results

Android Widget

A freely resizable widget, from 2×1 upwards, ships with the Android app

Beyond Site widgets on an iPhone Home Screen

Scheduled Reports

Branded PDF reports, emailed on your schedule.

Recurring Emailed PDF Reports

Assemble a branded PDF from your site checks and have it emailed on a schedule you choose — free during our launch

Hourly, Daily, Weekly or Monthly

Pick a cadence from every few hours to a specific day and time each month, delivered automatically in the background

Pick Your Checks & Sites

Choose from every reportable feature — ping, HTTP status, SSL, security scan, DNS, mail server, email auth, domain expiry — for any monitored site or custom domain

Combined or Per-Site PDFs

One PDF covering every site, or a separate PDF per site — both branded with the Beyond Site logo and store links

Send to Yourself or a Team

Add any number of recipients; the report reaches their inboxes through your own SMTP mailbox

Auto-Save a Dated Copy

Optionally save each generated PDF to a folder of your choice with a date-stamped filename

Email-Configuration Gate

A clear notice links you to email setup until SMTP is configured, and scheduled delivery resumes automatically once it is

Building a scheduled report in Beyond Site

Core Monitoring

Every check, every site, around the clock.

Website Availability Monitoring

Detects up/down status with robust failure detection

SSL Certificate Validation

Tracks expiry dates, issuer info, issued-to details, SAN entries, and days remaining

HTTP Status Code Detection

Identifies 2xx, 3xx, 4xx, 5xx responses with colour-coded labels

Response Time Measurement

Time-to-first-byte tracking in milliseconds

DNS Resolution Checking

Verifies domain resolves before attempting HTTP checks

TCP Connection Testing

Detects connection refused vs timeout failures

IP Address Support

Monitor servers by IP address in addition to domain names

Duplicate Prevention

Smart domain normalization catches duplicates regardless of protocol prefix

SSL Certificate Intelligence

Know exactly when every certificate runs out.

Certificate Details Dialog

Tap the shield icon on any site to view full SSL certificate information including status, expiry, issuer, issued-to, and SAN

Color-Coded Status Badges

Valid (green), Expiring Soon (yellow), Expired (red), or Not HTTPS indicators

Live Certificate Refresh

Update SSL information from within the certificate details dialog without closing it

Days Until Expiry

Real-time count of days remaining until certificate expiration with visual urgency indicators

Site details with certificate information

Detailed 5-Phase Diagnostics

Find out why a site failed, not just that it did.

Phase 1 — DNS Resolution

Success/failure + timing in ms

Phase 2 — TCP Connection

Detects refused connections and timeouts separately

Phase 3 — SSL Handshake

Verifies certificate chain validity

Phase 4 — HTTP Request

Follows redirects (up to 10), captures status codes and redirect chains

Phase 5 — HTTP Fallback

Falls back to plain HTTP if HTTPS is unreachable (but not if explicitly down)

Monitoring details, ports and email authentication

Alert System

Warned early, by push and by email.

Three-Tier SSL Alerts

Configurable Green, Orange, Red thresholds (0–100 days), one alert as a certificate reaches each, and a renewed notice when the new certificate arrives

Down & Recovery Alerts

A distinct alert each time a site goes down and each time it comes back

Push Notifications

Device-level alerts for certificate and availability changes. Tapping one opens the app’s Notifications screen

Before & Now in Every Alert

Each push, email and Notifications entry shows what changed, such as “Before: Up → Now: Down”

Email Alerts to Your Own Mailbox

Add recipients to each severity level and alerts are emailed as well as pushed, with no monthly cap on delivered alerts. Only alerts that actually send are counted

Email Diagnostics & Test Email

Test the SMTP and IMAP connections separately, and send yourself a real test email. Both are free and never count against anything

Background Refresh Summary

An optional quiet notification after each scheduled check, saying how many sites were checked and whether anything needs attention

Connectivity Alerts

Warn when the device itself loses its internet connection — while it is offline nothing is monitored, so a site could go down without you hearing about it

DNS Change Emails

An optional email, with its own recipient list, listing every DNS change a check found with the records before and now

Powerful Tools

A full diagnostic toolkit in your pocket.

Ping Tool

Ping any domain/IP with DNS lookup, TCP socket connect, and optional continuous pinging every 5 seconds

Port Scanner

Check 9 common ports (21, 22, 25, 80, 443, 3306, 5432, 8080, 8443) with latency per port

DNS Monitor

Comprehensive DNS analysis for all monitored websites including A, AAAA, MX, TXT, CNAME, CAA, SOA records, DNSSEC validation, DNS propagation checking across 5 public resolvers, the last 20 checks per site with what ran each one, per-record-type alert toggles that deliver push notifications (and optional emails) when a record changes, and a daily background auto-monitor

Speed Trace

Diagnostic analysis of response time, DNS, SSL, redirects with severity ratings and improvement suggestions

Data & Logging

Charts, logs and portable data.

Monitoring Logs

Full per-check telemetry capture (16 data points) when logging is enabled per site — the latest 50 checks in the app with an up, down and average-speed count, tap any one for its DNS, connection, SSL handshake, certificate and redirect details, and CSV export and import of the whole log

Site Check History

Last 10 check results per site stored with timestamps and status details

Interactive Dashboard

Pie charts (status distribution), bar charts (response time, SSL expiry), and detailed all-sites list

CSV Import/Export

Export/import monitored sites and alert threshold settings

SQLite Persistence

All data stored locally on-device, no cloud dependency

Backup & Reset

Your setup, safe in one verified file.

One-Tap Backup

Save your sites, categories and settings into a single portable .appbackup file — a ZIP of your data plus any PDF reports you exported

Optional Password Encryption

Add a password and the whole backup is sealed as one AES-256-GCM encrypted blob, so nothing is left readable by mistake

Restore Anywhere

Read a backup back onto the same device, or onto a new one after a clean install — with a preview of exactly what would change before you confirm

Backup History

Keep a dated history of every backup with its size, encryption state and status

Scheduled Backups

Back up automatically every day, week or month at a time you choose, to this device or to iCloud Drive on iPhone and iPad, optionally password-protected

Keep the Newest One to Three

Each scheduled backup is written and checked before the oldest is removed, so a failed run never leaves you with fewer backups — and backups you make yourself are never touched

Told If a Backup Fails

A notification if a scheduled backup cannot be made, and optionally one each time a backup succeeds

Guarded Reset App

Return the app to a clean first-install state through a five-step confirmation that ends with you typing RESET

Clears Everything App-Owned

Sites, categories, alert settings, monitoring logs, notifications, DNS snapshots, scan records, app settings and the stored SMTP password are all wiped

Backups & Files Stay Put

Backup files and anything you saved yourself are left untouched, so you can restore your data afterwards

Backup/Reset Lock

A two-way guard stops a backup and a reset from running at the same time, in either direction

Verifiable Result

A final summary reports exactly what was cleared, so the outcome matches what was promised

User Experience

Built to stay clear as your list grows.

Smart A-Z Sorting

Always-on alphabetical ordering that ignores http://, https:// and www prefixes

Pin to Top

Pin critical sites above the alphabetical list

Site Categories

Organize monitored sites into custom categories for easier management

Alphabet Quick Index Rail

Drag-scroll through A-Z with visual feedback

Undo Deletion

10-second grace window to undo accidental deletions

Filter Sites

Narrow the list by site category, by the kind of issue found, by certificate state, or by a certificate expiry date range — with a live count of how many sites still match, and one tap to clear everything

Light, Dark & Automatic Theme

Switch the whole app between light and dark from the main screen, or let it follow your device, with your choice remembered between launches

Colour Themes

Eleven light-mode colour themes, from Original Blue to Slate / Charcoal, previewed across the whole app before you save — or Spectrum, which blends slowly from one to the next. Dark mode is left as it is

Find a Site

A search button on the main screen narrows your sites as you type, matching the domain or category name, and scrolls straight to the one you pick

Copy Site Details

One-tap copy of all site metadata as tab-separated values

In-App Glossary of Terms

Over one hundred and thirty monitoring, security, scan report, DNS and email terms explained in plain language, grouped into ten sections with instant search — built in, so it works with no connection

In-App User Guide

Offline walkthrough of every screen, reachable from the Information menu

Refresh All

Check all sites at once with a single tap

Portrait Orientation Lock

Optimized for portrait on all devices

Tablet Responsive

Progressive layout scaling from 6" phones to 14" tablets

Platform Integration

Works with your device, not against it.

Home-Screen & Lock Screen Widgets

Your KPIs on the Home Screen on iPhone and iPad, and on the Lock Screen — see the widget section below

Background Monitoring

Scheduled checks keep running via Background App Refresh while the app is closed

Battery Optimized

Event-driven connectivity monitoring, auto-paused when backgrounded

Permissions Overview

Full checklist with status indicators and tap-to-open-settings

Scheduled Downtime

Planned maintenance without false alarms.

Pause Monitoring

Pause indefinitely or for a timed window with countdown status bar

Schedule Downtime Ahead

Plan a downtime for all sites, one site or a category, with a start and an end, and an optional reason

Repeating Windows

Run a downtime once, every day, on weekdays or every week — ideal for regular maintenance windows. Each schedule can be switched off without being deleted

Works With the App Closed

Background checks skip the sites a schedule is pausing, and every downtime is recorded in Downtime Notes, even one that ran while the app was closed

Auto-Resume

Automatic timer-based resume when the downtime window expires

Countdown Display

Live countdown showing remaining downtime duration

Per-Site Downtime

Every site card has its own DT chip, so you can put one site on downtime without pausing the rest — perfect when a single server is having maintenance

All-Sites Downtime

The DT button in the app bar opens Schedule Downtime, whose Downtime button puts every site on downtime at once, for those times you want a completely quiet period

Downtime Badge

A site on downtime is marked with a DT badge in the status row that counts down the time left, and the card refresh button is disabled while it is parked

No False Alerts While Paused

A site on downtime is skipped by scheduled checks and manual refreshes, so planned work never triggers an availability alert. Certificate expiry reminders still arrive, because those deadlines keep moving whether or not the site is being checked

Manual Resume

Resume a paused site at any time, and it is checked again the moment you do

All of this, free on your iPhone and iPad.

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