Mobile Nebula vs Firezone
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.
Firezone
This open-source platform provides secure, granular remote access for organizations. It leverages WireGuard for speed and integrates with identity providers for dynamic policy management, offering least-privileged access to specific applications or subnets.
- Open-source platform
- Granular access management
- Least-privileged access policies
- WireGuard protocol integration
- Identity provider integration
- Group-based policies
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Firezone is an open source platform to manage remote access for any-sized organization. Unlike most VPNs, Firezone takes a granular, least-privileged approach to access management with group-based policies that control access to individual applications, entire subnets, and everything in between. Built on WireGuard®, a new VPN protocol 3-4 times faster than OpenVPN, Firezone integrates with your identity provider to ensure policies remain up to date with your organization's latest directory information.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Firezone at 5.0 against Mobile Nebula's 4.5. Firezone also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). Mobile Nebula's advantage is ratings volume (20 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Firezone holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mobile Nebula has 20 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Mobile Nebula ships an update every 2 months, Firezone every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mobile Nebula | Firezone |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (20 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 55.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 20 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 54 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Defined Networking, Inc | Firezone, Inc. |
Customer experience
Mobile Nebula
Firezone
In-app purchases
Mobile Nebula
No in-app purchases
Firezone
No in-app purchases
