# Baldrick Buddy — Easily find & manage boards

> Easily find & manage boards (iPhone/iPad app by ILightThat.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/baldrick-buddy/id6800031690 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [ILightThat](https://appshunter.io/developer/6800031692)
- Category: Utilities, Productivity
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 6 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-10-13
- Data updated: 2026-10-24

## What is Baldrick Buddy?

Baldrick Buddy finds the Baldrick lighting controllers on your network and lets you run and set them up from one place, without hunting for IP addresses or opening each board's web page.

FIND YOUR BOARDS
• Every board on the network in one list, with name, type, firmware, address and whether it is receiving data
• Search, filter and sort when you have a lot of boards
• Tap a board's address to open its web interface in Safari

RUN THEM
• Start a test pattern to check your wiring, with brightness and colour
• Start and stop Cunning FX presets, and choose the one that runs at power-up
• Busk Board: big buttons for running looks live, with a Blackout button
• See what is sending a board data, and how fast

SET THEM UP
• Outputs and pixel models: names, pixel counts, colour order, brightness
• Relays and dimmers
• DMX presets, and the preset sent at power-up
• Physical buttons: what a press and a long press do
• Board name and network: fixed IP address and WiFi
• Create and edit Cunning FX presets and Busk Board buttons

Nothing is changed on a board until you tap Save.

KEEP THEM UP TO DATE
• Update one board, or every board that needs it, and watch them come back
• Switch boards between the main, beta and commercial release channels, one at a time or all together
• Offline update: download firmware while you have internet, then update boards on a network that has none

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
Buddy talks only to the boards on your own network. There is no account and no cloud, and your board list and settings never leave your device. The only internet use is downloading firmware when you ask for it.

You need Baldrick hardware on the same WiFi or Ethernet network. If nothing is found, check you are on the right network and allow Local Network access when asked.

## Is Baldrick Buddy safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Baldrick Buddy.

## Is Baldrick Buddy legit?

Baldrick Buddy has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Baldrick Buddy is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 4 releases)

### 0.7.1 — 2026-10-23

What's new
• System updates for a Baldrick17: when one is waiting, Buddy offers it on the Boards list and the board's Firmware page.
Improvements
• The Baldrick Buddy logo now sits at the top of the Boards and Show players pages.
• Ports and models: Save and Cancel only appear once you've changed something.
Fixes
• Boards behind an FPP stay up to date on the Boards list, instead of showing as not answering until you opened Show players.
• A board that stops answering for about 30 seconds is now marked as not answering.
• A finished offline update shows the version the board was on before, rather than the new one twice.

### 0.7.0 — 2026-10-22

A new look: dark mode, and every screen redesigned to go with it.

Show player monitoring: see what your FPP is playing without going hunting for it.

FPP Proxy support: update boards that sit behind FPP Proxy, and Buddy will tell you if your settings are a bit squiffy (and how to un-squiff them).

Signals counts on the home page.

Test mode and port selection, completely rethought. To be honest, we're pretty proud of them.

Start a triage straight from the app. It sends us much more information, so we can help you faster.

### 0.6.0 — 2026-10-19

• Dark mode… for those complaining that the Baldrick interface blinds them at night. It follows your device's settings, or you can override it in the new Settings page.
• Now shows the live visitor count from a BaldrickSignals board.
• Poke a board: turns test mode on for 5 seconds on that board… useful for debugging with multiple boards, and has nothing to do with the fact we've had three support queries this week from people working on the wrong board… nothing to do with that at all.
• More stuff is live on the board and updates automatically, in a pretty way, rather than waiting for you to refresh.
• You can now add other subnets and VLANs for Buddy to scan, in the new Settings page.
• You can now update boards on older firmware.
• We fixed a few bugs that, to be honest, I can't be arsed to get into.

### 0.5.0 — 2026-10-13

No release notes.

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