Mobile Nebula vs Netmaker
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.
Netmaker
Access your private networks securely and easily from offsite machines. Connect to different private networks to remotely access your resources. Designed for seamless and secure remote connectivity.
- Access private Netmaker networks
- Remote access to resources
- Secure and easy connectivity
- Connect to multiple networks
- Offsite machine access
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The Netmaker Mobile App is for user access to your Netmaker private networks. It is mostly suited for offsite machines that need access to a Netmaker network. Users can choose to connect to different private netmaker networks. This enables end users to remotely access their resources over private securely and easily
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Mobile Nebula at 4.5 against Netmaker's 1.0. Mobile Nebula also leads on ratings volume (20 vs 1) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 4 months). Netmaker's advantage is review sentiment (67% vs 56%). 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.
Mobile Nebula holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 1.0. 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. Written reviews complicate that: 56% of Mobile Nebula's written reviews are positive against 67% of Netmaker's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Mobile Nebula ships an update every 2 months, Netmaker every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 10, 2026 and June 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mobile Nebula | Netmaker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (20 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 55.6% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 20 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 62 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Defined Networking, Inc | Gravitl, Inc. |
Customer experience
Mobile Nebula
Netmaker
In-app purchases
Mobile Nebula
No in-app purchases
Netmaker
No in-app purchases
