Copper vs MQTT Manager
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Copper
View and analyze EAGLE CAD files, including PCB layouts and schematics, directly on your mobile device. Create and render photorealistic 3D models of your PCBs with customizable lighting and materials. Organize your imported files into a convenient pocket library.
- View EAGLE CAD files
- Analyze PCB layouts and schematics
- Create 3D PCB models
- Assign 3D models to footprints
- Real-time photorealistic rendering
- Import files from various sources
- Organize files in a personal library
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Open any EAGLE CAD file (from version 6 and above) directly on your iPhone and investigate the PCB layout and schematics with your finger. Select parts and signals, manage parts and Bill of Materials. Copper creates 3D versions of your PCB including parts that you assign from our extensive 3D model library to your footprints. Copper then renders a photorealistic representation in real time that you can touch, rotate and move in a virtual studio. Setup lights and materials like the solder mask or the floor. Import EAGLE files from any source like the web (just download a ZIP file with EAGLE files), from Github, your Dropbox, or send PCB files directly via Airdrop, Mail or iMessage to your iPhone or iPad. Every file you import is kept in Coppers library. This way you can build up a nice library of PCBs and Schematics right in your pocket. Copper is also available for the Mac and both share the same codebase and file format.
MQTT Manager
This app provides a user-friendly interface for interacting with MQTT brokers. It offers a variety of customizable widgets to display and control data, along with comprehensive documentation for MQTT basics and broker setup.
- Widget-based MQTT topic interaction
- Display, Gauge, LED, Graph widgets
- Switch, Knob, Slider, Push Button widgets
- Secure Switch and Switch & LED widgets
- Comprehensive MQTT and broker setup documentation
- Example sketches for Arduino and Raspberry Pi Pico W
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MQTT Manager is a general-purpose application to read and write topics on a MQTT broker through a friendly interface based on widgets. The application is organized in 4 tabs and each tab can contain any number of widgets. Widgets are chosen between the available ones: * Display: Shows a numeric value or text (scrolling it) * Gauge: Shows a numeric value over a graded scale * LED: Shows the value of a topic as a LED on or off * Graph: Shows the values of a topic as a graph * Switch: Writes a value to the topic depending on the switch position * Secure Switch: Similar to the Switch Widget. To operate the switch, the protection has to be remove with a click on the yellow bands though * Switch & LED: Writes a value to a topic and shows its value as a LED on or off * Knob: Writes a value to a topic proportional to the position of the knob * Slider: Writes a value to a topic proportional to the position of the slider * Push Button: Writes a value to a topic when the button is pushed and another value when it is released * Text: Writes the value entered by the user to a topic The application includes: * a complete user manual * documentation to learn the MQTT basics * the documentation to install a private MQTT broker on: * Raspberry Pi * Linux * macOS * documentation to use the Adafruit IO service instead of your MQTT broker. This allows to get started in a few minutes, without installing additional software * documentation includes how to configure a local mosquitto broker with authentication, using SSL and using client certificates for users/devices identification and authentication * Arduino ESP32, Arduino MEGA, Arduino Nano 33 IoT and MKR1000 sketches to create a MQTT node which sends data to the application and can be controlled by it * Raspberry Pi Pico W micropython script to create a MQTT node which sends data to the application and can be controlled by it
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: MQTT Manager at 5.0 against Copper's 3.3. MQTT Manager also leads on update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 3 months). Copper's advantage is ratings volume (13 vs 1) and price ($4.99 vs $7.99). On review sentiment, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Copper costs $4.99 and MQTT Manager $7.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
MQTT Manager holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Copper has 13 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 47% of Copper's written reviews are positive against 50% of MQTT Manager's.
Copper ships an update every 3 months, MQTT Manager every 5 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Copper | MQTT Manager |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 — better | $7.99 |
| Rating | 3.3 (13 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 47.4% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.3 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 78 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Phillip Schuster | Fabrizio Boco |
Customer experience
Copper
MQTT Manager
In-app purchases
Copper
No in-app purchases
MQTT Manager
No in-app purchases








