Comparison

Tracker Console vs Coast

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ€” with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Tracker Console

Features
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Use this app to program supported motorized camera mount for astrophotography and time-lapse photography. It can also help an equatorial mount user do polar alignment with the polar scope.

About

Coast

Features
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Coast turns your iPhone or iPad into a control surface for your Mac. Build your own decks of controls: buttons, sliders, dials, jog wheels, and joysticks, placed exactly where you want them. Open a full-screen trackpad with a keyboard. Or point the phone at your desk and it moves the cursor like an optical mouse. Everything talks to your Mac over your own Wi-Fi, and nothing leaves your network. CONTROL DECKS YOU DESIGN Lay out screens of controls yourself: buttons, sliders, a jog wheel, a D-pad, a numpad, gesture pads, and about forty more widgets. Make a deck for Photoshop, a deck for editing, a deck for your studio. Decks can open automatically when their Mac app comes to the front. A REAL TRACKPAD AND KEYBOARD A full-screen pointer with a remote keyboard, whenever you need it. COAST PRO One in-app purchase unlocks the full toolkit: - Macros: chain Mac actions with real logic, if/else, loops, and waits, into a single tap - Screen mirror: your Mac, live on your phone - Drawing and a laser pointer for presenting - Air mouse and a 3D wand for orbiting 3D viewports - The Apple Watch app - iCloud sync across your devices PRIVATE BY DESIGN Coast runs over your local Wi-Fi. Pointer movement, screens, and controls stay on your own network, and are never stored or sent to us. Coast needs its free companion app running on your Mac. Download it at coast.masn.studio.

Screenshots

Tracker Console4 screens
Coast4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tracker Console at none against Coast's 1. Tracker Console also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). Coast's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Coast sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Tracker Console asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tracker Console ships an update every 3 months, Coast every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 10, 2026 and September 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 3 level
Tracker Console versus Coast: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTracker ConsoleCoast
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 3 weeks โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS13.0 โ€” better17.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size35 MB27 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAstropower Technology Co. Ltd.LeShan Chen

In-app purchases

None

Tracker Console

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Coast

One-time1
  • Coast Pro$2.99

Questions

Is Tracker Console free?
Tracker Console is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Coast free?
Coast is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Tracker Console or Coast have ads?
Neither Tracker Console nor Coast shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tracker Console or Coast?
Tracker Console ships an update every 3 months, and Coast every 3 weeks. Most recently, Tracker Console was updated on September 10, 2026 and Coast on September 12, 2026.

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