StarOrder vs MQTee
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
StarOrder
Organize your GitHub starred repositories with intuitive tagging and search. Easily find specific projects and designate favorites. Enjoy a clean, native interface with seamless multi-device syncing.
- Flexible tagging for repositories
- Search thousands of starred repos
- Designate 'Star of All Stars'
- Simple and elegant native UI
- Multi-device CloudKit syncing
- Secure with minimal OAuth permissions
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Star Order is a professional tool for managing GitHub Stars. With easy and flexible tagging, it allows you to search through thousands of Star repositories and still be able to select the one you need with ease and grace. In addition, you can select your favorite Star repository and make it a "Star of All Stars"! - Simple and Elegant Star Order is a pure native application developed with SwiftUI, and the UI has been carefully designed to make you feel more comfortable using it. - Multi-device syncing Star Order uses Apple's official CloudKit data syncing solution to ensure your data is quickly synced on iPhone / iPad / Mac. - Secure and Pure Star Order does not collect any user data and applies minimum GitHub Oauth permissions to ensure your private data is safe.
MQTee
A native MQTT 5 client for iOS devices that offers a visual topic tree browser, full MQTT 5.0 support, and iCloud sync for seamless connection management. It allows for multi-tab publishing with syntax highlighting and provides a real-time event log for debugging.
- Native MQTT 5 client
- Visual topic tree browser
- Full MQTT 5.0 support
- iCloud sync for connections
- Multi-tab publishing with syntax highlighting
- Real-time event log
- Apple Shortcuts & Siri integration
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MQTee is the only native MQTT 5 client for iPhone and iPad. Built in SwiftUI + Rust. No Electron, no lag, no web views. Topic Tree Browser Explore your MQTT topic hierarchy in a visual tree. Search, filter, view payloads inline, and unsubscribe directly from the tree. Color-coded subscriptions make it easy to track multiple data streams at a glance. Full MQTT 5.0 Support Connect with MQTT 3.1.1 or MQTT 5.0. Full support for shared subscriptions, user properties, no-local, retain handling, session expiry, content type, response topics, correlation data, and message expiry intervals. iCloud Sync Your connections sync seamlessly across your iPhone and iPad via iCloud. Credentials are stored securely in iCloud Keychain. Multi-Tab Publishing Open multiple publish tabs per connection. JSON syntax highlighting and payload auto-detection (JSON, XML, hex, plaintext). Real-Time Event Log Structured event log with filtering by level, category, and direction. Debug MQTT workflows in real time. Apple Shortcuts & Siri Automate your MQTT workflows with Apple Shortcuts. Publish messages and read retained values from any app, Siri, or automation. Session Persistence Save subscriptions and message history per connection. Auto-resubscribe when reconnecting. Configurable message limits for memory and disk. Every feature is free. No limits. No paywalls. No feature gating. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: MQTee at Free against StarOrder's $3.99. MQTee also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 86%). On rating, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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
MQTee is free to download; StarOrder costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for StarOrder against 5.0 for MQTee. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 86% of StarOrder's written reviews are positive against 100% of MQTee's.
| Parameter | StarOrder | MQTee |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 俊 吕 | Felipe Lima |
Customer experience
StarOrder
MQTee
In-app purchases
StarOrder
No in-app purchases
MQTee
No in-app purchases









