Not usable
This app is unusable due to connection issues and battery drain problems. It also has odd defaults not present on the netbird client on other platforms.
Works great!
I’m using self-hosted NetBird for remote access to my homelab and LAN. It is stable with macOS and iOS peers connecting to a provmox ve container peer. The very comprehensive docs and terminology (groups, peers, users) takes some time to absorb but keep at it and you’ll be rewarded nicely! The exit node option is a great bonus too.
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Didn’t work
After connecting i tried to open other applications and lost connection…
Quoting Apple: “It just works”
I like when things work as intended and does what it says it does.
Was working great but doesn’t work at all now
When I click connect, it connects briefly then immediately disconnects. Can’t actually connect to anything. Please fix this bug and I’ll change my rating
Battery issues
Switched from Tailscale but noticed battery dying really fast, Check iOS battery stats and this app used around 26%. Seems very high drain.
Good
Good app
Unreliable
App and VPN setting in iPhone says connected but unable to access any services routed through NetBird randomly, on iPhone 13 ProbMax, iPhone 14, and iPhone 16 pro max. Great idea though but this issue needs sorting as it prevents large scale deployment.
Glass look 🤢🤢🤢
They’ve just made me actively not want to use this app, no VPN on demand and now full of the worst UI in decades.
Don’t work DNS
The site's DNS doesn't work, it just won't open. I have clients on Android, Linux, Windows, Macos but this problem is only on iOS VPN just doesn’t work
Excellent VPN and Mesh
I have tried the cloud and self-hosted version both are amazing especially the peer authentication on cloud version.
Keep it up, Thanks.
Keep it up, Thanks.
Bug
Since I updates to the version 0.0.15, the app tells me im disconnected, even if I am connected
Still no VPN on demand
I’m writing this at the point of stopping using NetBird because there is still no VPN on demand feature and, to my knowledge, proper fixes for the battery drain issues. It’s a shame because the NetBird service is fantastic but without decent mobile client support in 2025 it’s not viable. For a service like this to work and be of use, a company needs to support (and support well) as many client devices as possible and this just isn’t happening at present. I may revisit in the future if this changes.
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Great everywhere except iOS
Very happy with this on every other device, but the battery drain on iOS is unfortunately forcing me to look at alternatives.
Constant issues and frequently out of date
The single least reliable application I have had the displeasure of using
Will consistently disconnect in the background, crash, hang, generally unpleasant and bad. If you don’t turn on lazy connections you get terrible battery issues, if you do you get disconnected after your phone is off for more than 15 minutes and routes will just sometimes not work when reconnecting.
They do not keep the runtime version up to date and is consistently well behind all other platforms. Sometimes I wonder if it’s completely unmaintained.
Will consistently disconnect in the background, crash, hang, generally unpleasant and bad. If you don’t turn on lazy connections you get terrible battery issues, if you do you get disconnected after your phone is off for more than 15 minutes and routes will just sometimes not work when reconnecting.
They do not keep the runtime version up to date and is consistently well behind all other platforms. Sometimes I wonder if it’s completely unmaintained.
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Promising
Gave it a test run and played around with the admin portal and its quite easy to set up but its not for me just yet. My entire internal infrastructure and dns configurations are mainly ipv6 with no real management over ipv4 except for dual stack for external access. If I were to use netbird in its current state then I’d have to work backwards and configure ipv4 statics and reservations for my servers and dns which Im not too keen on doing so I’ll have to pass for now. I’ll revisit it whenever ipv6 is supported.
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Quality of life features Missing
I love your service, it works really well. I just wish for an implementation of VPN on Demand and it would be perfect
Unreliable
The function called “VPN on demand” not implemented, which makes it way less efficient battery wise then tailscale. It also keeps disconnecting. People have been asking for this for a longtime on github. Seems like the IOS stuck in beta. Great infrastructure let down by a weak IOS client.
Unoptimized
third class level ui design and power hungry
It works :)
It works good. One suggestion would be to allow turning on and off entire Networks. For example, if I want to ensure that I’m connected to k8s dev network, but not to prod network then turning on / off entire Networks would be a handy feature.
