NZBClient for NZBGet vs lodestar
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NZBClient for NZBGet
Manage your NZBGet server remotely from your iPhone or iPad. Monitor downloads, edit queues, search for new NZBs, and receive push notifications for important updates. Offers extensive customization and support for multiple servers.
- Remote NZBGet server management
- Search and fetch new NZBs
- Monitor and control downloads
- Push notifications
- Multiple server support
- Full app customization
- Upload NZB files
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Use NZBClient to manage your NZBGet Server on your iPhone or iPad. This app works as a client or front-end for your NZBGet server v13+. Monitor, delete and edit current downloads and items in your history. Including support for multiple servers with fast switching, great for local/remote access setups. Search or Browse Newznab based servers for new NZB's, then fetch or save them. Create custom searches then automatically search and fetch results. Get push notifications from NZBGet or any other service, when new NZB's are added to queue, deleted, fail, or downloaded. With custom settings and menus you can fully customisable the app to suit your needs. Features include: - Search, Browse & Fetch from Newznab servers, - Pause, Resume downloads - Push Notifications - E2E Encrypted Push Notifications - Delete history or active downloads - Upload .NZB files - Multiple Servers - HTTPS/SSL - Set Speed limit - Pause queue for set time, - Set Category when uploading - Set Priority when uploading - Add to top when uploading - Add paused when uploading - Change priority of NZB in queue, - Change category of NZB in Queue, - Pause resume single NZB file in queue, - Save NZB files locally on device - Re-upload local NZB files - Set Default server - View History - View Log files - Edit and delete Servers - Set Refresh time - See detailed overview of each active download - Mark History items as good/bad - Re-download and Re-Postprocess history items - View Hidden items in history - View server log - Open and Uncompress .zip files - Group upload NZB files - Set unpack password - RSS fetching - Search and filter Downloads and History - Full App customisation Note: Some features require a one-time in-app purchase or a monthly/yearly subscription to use, this helps support independent development. You need to have a Laptop, NAS or PC running NZBGet v13+ to use this app. NZBClient is a free download and offers a limited feature set for free forever! If you would like to unlock the full potential of the app and support independent development, you can purchase a one-time purchase of Premium to access some extra features, or subscribe (monthly or yearly) to Ultra to access all features. NZBClient has monthly and yearly subscription options available that unlock all features. Subscriptions can be canceled at any time at least 24 hours before the next billing cycle. Privacy policy: https://nzbclient.app/privacy Terms of use: https://nzbclient.app/terms
lodestar
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lodestar is the remote for the media stack you already run, connected straight from your iPhone to your own servers. Radarr and Sonarr. Prowlarr and Bazarr. Overseerr and Jellyseerr. Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, and Tautulli. NZBGet, SABnzbd, qBittorrent, Transmission, and Deluge. LazyLibrarian and Audiobookshelf for books. One native app for all of it. Deep, not shallow. Each service gets its own screens for browsing and control, not a status widget. Browse and edit your Radarr and Sonarr libraries, add movies and series with root folder, quality profile, and tags, run interactive release searches and push the exact release you want to your download client, manage queues with blocklisting, and check history, missing, and upcoming. Download clients get real control too: reorder and prioritize queues, pause and resume globally or per item, set speed limits, and dig into per-torrent trackers, peers, and file priorities. Torrents included. qBittorrent, Transmission, and Deluge are first-class modules alongside usenet, not afterthoughts. Requests, subtitles, and indexers. Approve what your household asks for through Overseerr or Jellyseerr. Chase down missing subtitles in Bazarr. See which indexer is failing in Prowlarr, which is usually the real answer to "why did nothing download". Your media server too. See who is watching what right now on Plex, Jellyfin, or Emby, stop a stream, and read the viewing history and stats Tautulli keeps. It tells you what is stuck. One screen collects every failed grab, blocked import, stalled download, and health warning across the whole stack, with the fix one tap away. One calendar for everything. Upcoming movies and episodes from every Radarr and Sonarr instance, merged into month and agenda views. Built for real setups. Unlimited profiles for multi-instance stacks (4K and 1080p Radarr side by side), instant profile switching, LAN and WAN addresses with automatic fallback, custom headers, and self-signed certificate support. The connection wizard validates live and tells you exactly why a connection failed. Native and fast. Built in SwiftUI for iPhone and iPad, iOS 17 and up, so it runs on the devices newer apps have already dropped. Full dark mode, haptics, designed empty states, and home screen widgets. No web views pretending to be an app. Your servers stay yours. On your own network, lodestar talks directly from your iPhone to your servers: no account, and nothing sent to us. Optional remote access adds a lodestar account and a relay we run, so the app can reach your servers from anywhere through an agent you install at home. The relay carries traffic it cannot read. API keys live in the iOS Keychain and go only to your servers, or sealed to your own agent when remote access is on. Three ways to use it. The agent and its web app on your own network are free. The iOS app's free tier is one profile with up to two services, direct connections, full functionality. lodestar lifetime, one payment, unlocks the app for good, unlimited profiles and services, and includes thirty days of remote access. lodestar monthly is remote access: reach your servers from anywhere through our relay and the web app, cancel any time in Settings. lodestar is a remote control for servers you already operate. It downloads nothing itself, requires media server software running on your own hardware, and is for content you have the right to. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://lodestar.i8l.tech/privacy Support: https://lodestar.i8l.tech/support
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: lodestar at every 5 days against NZBClient for NZBGet's every 3 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
Both are free to download. NZBClient for NZBGet sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and lodestar sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
NZBClient for NZBGet ships an update every 3 weeks, lodestar every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | NZBClient for NZBGet | lodestar |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (101 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 101 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Digital Tools Ltd | Jonathan Poeder |
Bugs and requests
NZBClient for NZBGet
Reported bugs
6 issues- Configuration errors
- Premium features not activating after restore
- NZB files not recognized after iOS 13 update
- Blank search results
- Keyboard hides search results
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- Connection failures require force close
Requested features
10 requests- Support for Sabnzbd
- ClientID/Secret via HTTP Header
- Widgets for home screen
- Upload nzb from Apple Files app
- Support for Sonarr and Radarr
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- More functionality in free version
- Improved tutorials
- Fix keyboard not disappearing after search
- Fix blank search results bug
- Add indexer search functionality
lodestar
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
NZBClient for NZBGet
- Ultra Monthly$0.991 Month
- Ultra Yearly$8.991 Year
- Support Icon Pack$2.99
- NZBClient Premium Lifetime$9.99
lodestar
- lodestar monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- lodestar lifetime$19.99
Questions
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