Is It Snappy? vs Pi
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Is It Snappy?
Measure the input-to-output latency of your devices, text editors, game consoles, or televisions. Record a video of a button press and its on-screen effect, then use the frame-accurate scrubbing tool to mark precise input and output times. The app calculates the difference in milliseconds, providing objective responsiveness data.
- Measure input-to-output latency
- High-frame-rate camera recording
- Frame-accurate scrubbing UI
- Precise input and output time marking
- Objective responsiveness quantification
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Use your iPhone's high-frame-rate camera to measure the input-to-output latency of your text editor, device, game console, or television. Simply record a video containing the button press and the resulting effect on the screen. Is It Snappy? provides a frame-accurate scrubbing UI where the precise input and output times can be marked. The difference in milliseconds is displayed. With Is It Snappy?, the responsiveness of a device, text editor, display, or video game can be objectively quantified.
Pi
Manage your Pi-hole network ad blocker from any Apple device. Monitor DNS queries, control blocking, and manage lists and settings. Offers interactive widgets and Siri integration for quick access.
- Remote Pi-hole management
- DNS query monitoring
- Ad blocking control
- List and domain management
- Interactive widgets
- Siri integration
- Multi-device support
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Take full control of your Pi-hole from your iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV. Monitor your network, inspect DNS queries, manage blocking and lists, and control multiple Pi-hole instances from anywhere in the Apple ecosystem. *Disable Blocking* Quickly disable blocking from the app, interactive Home Screen widgets, your Apple Watch, or Siri. You'll see a Live Activity for the duration to remind you blocking is disabled! *Statistics & Queries* Look up what domains are queried most on your network, as well as clients that send out the most requests. View your Query Log as well as a 'Live Log' which shows queries on your network in real time. *Blocked Services* Want to quickly restrict access to Facebook, TikTok, Snapchat, Roblox, and more? Block all kinds of services effortlessly with just one tap. *Manage Your Pi-hole* Manage Clients & Groups, Domains & Adlists, and change all kinds of Pi-hole settings such as DNS/DHCP settings. *Interactive Widgets & Live Activity* Choose from a wide range of Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets that show your Pi-hole status or statistics. There are also interactive widgets to disable blocking without opening the app! When you disable blocking, you will even see a Live Activity on your Lock Screen, Dynamic Island, and Smart Stack. *Controls* Quickly toggle blocking right from your Lock Screen, Control Center, or Action Button. *Made for the Apple Ecosystem* Use Pi-hole Remote across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV. Your instances and preferences stay available across your devices through iCloud. Purchase Pi-hole Remote+ once and unlock it on every supported platform. == iPhone, iPad, and Mac features: - Enable or temporarily disable Pi-hole blocking - View detailed statistics and combined data from multiple instances - Search and filter your Query Log or watch queries appear in real time - Add domains to your allowlist or denylist, individually or in bulk - Block entire services such as social networks, streaming platforms, and games - Manage clients, groups, domains, adlists, DNS, and DHCP settings - Update Gravity and manage your Pi-hole configuration - Add and control an unlimited number of Pi-hole instances - Choose where each instance appears based on your Wi-Fi network - Connect securely using HTTPS, reverse proxies, custom paths, and custom headers - Use interactive widgets, Live Activities, and Lock Screen or Control Center controls - Control Pi-hole with Siri, App Shortcuts, Spotlight, and the Action Button - Sync settings and selected Pi-hole data between instances - Personalize the app with custom colors and alternative icons - Enjoy dedicated layouts for iPhone, iPad, and Mac - Full VoiceOver and Dark Mode support Apple Watch features: - View status and statistics, control one or all instances, access Blocked Services, and use complications and Live Activities Apple TV features: - View statistics and queries, control blocking and services, and switch between or combine instances on the big screen == Note: You need at least one working Pi-hole instance running on another device for this app to function and you must use Pi-hole Version 6.0 or up. Pi-hole Remote is a third-party app which uses the Pi-hole API and is in no way affiliated with Pi-hole. Find out more about Pi-hole at https://pi-hole.net/. This app offers a "Pi-hole Remote+" version with additional features, in the form of a lifetime purchase, a monthly subscription, or a yearly subscription. Subscriptions will automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period and will be charged to your App Store account. You can turn off auto-renew or manage subscriptions in your App Store account settings after purchase. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Is It Snappy? at none against Pi's 7. Is It Snappy? also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). Pi's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 6 months) and ratings volume (1.3K vs 28). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. Pi sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Is It Snappy? asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Is It Snappy? against 4.8 for Pi. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pi has 1.3K ratings behind it against 28, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 83% of Is It Snappy?'s written reviews are positive against 88% of Pi's.
Is It Snappy? ships an update every 6 months, Pi every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Is It Snappy? | Pi |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (28 ratings) — better | 4.8 (1.3K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 82.6% of reviews | 88.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 28 | 1.3K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 85 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Chad Austin | RocketScience IT |
Customer experience
Is It Snappy?
Pi
Bugs and requests
Is It Snappy?
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Pi
Reported bugs
7 issues- Crashes when pressing certain options
- Unable to reach Pi Hole after configuration
- Statistics screen crashes the app
- Widgets not working
- Live Logs not working properly
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- Login screen freezes
- Incompatible with older devices
Requested features
13 requests- Add and remove adlists from the internet
- DHCP management, like assign static IPs, change host names of devices
- Change other pihole settings, like upstream DNS servers
- A command line interface
- Group management, I.e. the ability to whitelist or blacklist certain domains only for certain groups of devices, and to be able to create new groups and edit which devices are in each group
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- Option to style query bar graph as stacked bar graph colored by client
- Notification to update pihole
- Ability to update the OS and pihole from the app
- Wildcard support for the whitelist
- View DHCP Leases or add reservations
- Query Log
- Dark mode option
- Advanced analytics dashboard
In-app purchases
Is It Snappy?
No in-app purchases
Pi
- Monthly PHR+$0.991 Month
- PHR+ Yearly$4.991 Year
- Small Tip$0.99
- Medium Tip$3.99
- Large Tip$6.99
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- PHR+ Lifetime$11.99
- Huge Tip$17.99









