Mobile Nebula vs Durin
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mobile Nebula
This tool creates a secure, high-performance overlay network to connect devices globally. It combines encryption, security groups, certificates, and tunneling for seamless device connectivity, scaling from a few devices to tens of thousands.
- Scalable overlay networking
- High performance
- Enhanced security
- Seamless device connection
- Encryption and tunneling
- Certificate-based authentication
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Nebula is a scalable overlay networking tool with a focus on performance, simplicity and security. It lets you seamlessly connect computers anywhere in the world. It can be used to connect a small number of devices, but is also able to connect tens of thousands of devices. Nebula incorporates a number of existing concepts like encryption, security groups, certificates, and tunneling, and each of those individual pieces existed before Nebula in various forms. What makes Nebula different to existing offerings is that it brings all of these ideas together, resulting in a sum that is greater than its individual parts.
Durin
This app provides native support for IPFS and IPNS protocols on your mobile device. It allows seamless interaction with IPFS links across the web and other applications, and enables file uploads and viewing directly within the app.
- IPFS and IPNS protocol support
- Seamless web link integration
- File uploads to IPFS
- In-app file viewing
- Native mobile IPFS utilization
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Durin enables you to fully utilize the IPFS network on your mobile device. It adds native support for IPFS + IPNS protocols so links on the web and in apps work seamlessly. You can also upload files to the network and view them within the app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Durin at 100% against Mobile Nebula's 56%. Durin also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.5). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Durin holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 20 and 9 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 56% of Mobile Nebula's written reviews are positive against 100% of Durin's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 10, 2026 and June 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mobile Nebula | Durin |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (20 ratings) | 4.9 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 55.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 20 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 62 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Defined Networking, Inc | David Justice |
Customer experience
Mobile Nebula
Durin
In-app purchases
Mobile Nebula
No in-app purchases
Durin
No in-app purchases
