MobileyMe vs ServerShelf
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MobileyMe
This app offers seamless contact backup and retrieval across devices. It also provides high-quality internet-based calling and prioritizes user privacy with secure, Canadian-based data storage and no data collection.
- Effortless contact backup
- Crystal-clear VoIP calling
- Secure data storage in Canada
- Privacy-first, no data collection
- Access contacts from any device
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US and Canada numbers only. Back up your contacts on your own phone. Then sign in on a new, spare or friend's phone and your backed up contacts are there. Calls you place show your number on the carriers we have tested. Set it up while you still have your phone. Your phone dies at the airport. It gets stolen at a festival. It breaks on the way to work. Your number still belongs to you, but your contacts and your way of reaching people are stuck on that phone. MobileyMe is the safety net you set up before that day. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Keep your number for calls: verify once on your own phone while you still have it. Calls you place then show your number on the carriers we have tested, even on another phone. Carriers decide how each call is labeled. • Back up your contacts to a private, encrypted cloud account. On your own phone, backup happens automatically once you grant Contacts access. On another phone you sign in on, your backed up contacts are there. • On iPhone, the app walks you through turning on carrier call forwarding from your own phone. It has to be on before your phone is lost. With call forwarding on through a US carrier, calls to your number can ring the iPhone you signed in on. • Text your contacts through the app, from a MobileyMe line. Texts never come from your own number, and login codes sent to your carrier number still go to your SIM. • Message other MobileyMe users in the app, with read receipts. Your MobileyMe messages are there on the phone you sign in on. • See the last place your phone checked in, if you allowed location. • Sign out of a lost phone from another phone. It signs out the next time that phone is online. • When you sign out of MobileyMe on a phone, the app removes your MobileyMe data from that phone. Your contacts and messages stay in your MobileyMe cloud account. • Block a number for calls and texts. • Sign in with Face ID or Touch ID instead of retyping your password. START FREE MobileyMe is free to download, with a monthly allowance of calls and texts. Premium adds unlimited calls and texts in the US and Canada. Premium is an auto-renewing subscription billed to your Apple ID, and you can manage or cancel it in Settings. PRIVACY AND SECURITY Your data is encrypted when it's sent and when it's stored, in a private account protected by your sign-in. Your number, on any phone. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://mobileyme.com/privacy
ServerShelf
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ServerShelf for iPhone and iPad is the companion to ServerShelf on your Mac, Windows or Linux machine. It carries your full server inventory with you: every server with OS, provider, environment and tags, SSL certificate expiry, uptime checks, pending updates and reboot flags. WHAT YOU GET • Inventory: your whole fleet at a glance, grouped by project, with search and per-server detail down to hardware, services and domains. • Triage: one screen with everything that needs attention: certificates about to expire, uptime checks that are down, servers with pending or security updates, hosts waiting for a reboot. • Library: your snippets and software licenses from the desktop, readable wherever you are. • Live on your LAN: pair with the desktop by scanning a QR code and get live data straight from it while you are on the same network. • Push alerts: the desktop can notify your phone when something needs attention. HOW IT CONNECTS The desktop app encrypts a snapshot of your inventory and puts it in storage you own: iCloud Drive, any S3-compatible bucket, or a WebDAV share. This app downloads that snapshot and decrypts it with your passphrase. There is no ServerShelf cloud and no account. PRIVATE BY DESIGN End-to-end encrypted: the passphrase stays on your devices, and the storage provider only ever sees ciphertext. No tracking, no telemetry. REQUIRES ServerShelf for desktop (servershelf.app) creates and uploads the snapshots. This companion app is free.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ServerShelf at none against MobileyMe's 2. ServerShelf also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 8 days). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. MobileyMe sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. ServerShelf asks for nothing beyond the download.
MobileyMe ships an update every 8 days, ServerShelf every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MobileyMe | ServerShelf |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (14 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 14 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MobileyMe Inc. | Christof Müller |
In-app purchases
MobileyMe
- MobileyMe Premium (Monthly)$9.991 Month
- MobileyMe Premium (Yearly)$99.991 Year
ServerShelf
No in-app purchases









