Comparison

Mobile Nebula vs Airclone

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Scalable overlay networking
  • High performance
  • Enhanced security
  • Seamless device connection
  • Encryption and tunneling
  • Certificate-based authentication
Features
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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.

About

Airclone

Features
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Airclone is a modern, easy-to-use file manager for the clouds you already use. It is built on rclone, the open-source engine that can move and sync files across 70+ storage services — Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, Amazon S3, Backblaze B2, SFTP, WebDAV and many more. Airclone gives it a clean, fast interface on your iPhone and iPad, so you can manage all of your storage from one app without ever touching a command line. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Browse every cloud like a folder. All of your remotes sit side by side, with familiar rows, previews and long-press actions. • Move and copy between clouds directly. Send a file from one cloud to another — the transfer runs as a background job you can watch or cancel, and you can pause the queue so nothing new starts. • Sync and back up folders. Mirror, copy, move or two-way sync, with a dry-run preview that shows exactly what will change before anything happens. • See your photos and videos. Image and video thumbnails load right in the app for any remote. • Stay in control. Nothing is overwritten silently — every collision asks first: skip, replace, or keep both. YOUR FILES STAY YOURS Airclone runs entirely on your device. There are no accounts to create, no tracking and no telemetry. Your files and your cloud credentials never pass through our servers, because we do not have any. BUILT ON RCLONE The rclone engine is built into the app, so there is nothing else to install and no command line to learn. Airclone is an independent companion to rclone and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by the rclone project. ABOUT FILES ON THIS DEVICE iOS does not let an app browse your whole device, so Airclone's local side is its own folder — the one the Files app shows under "On My iPhone" as Airclone. Anything you copy down from a cloud lands there, and anything you put there from Files is ready to upload. Mounting a cloud as a drive, and creating or extracting archives, are not available on iOS.

Screenshots

Mobile Nebula3 screens
Airclone4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Mobile Nebula at Free against Airclone's $1.49. Airclone's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 months). On ads, in-app purchases, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Mobile Nebula is free to download; Airclone costs $1.49 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mobile Nebula ships an update every 2 months, Airclone every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Mobile Nebula versus Airclone: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMobile NebulaAirclone
PriceFree — better$1.49
Rating4.5 (20 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews55.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings20 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size54 MB124 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDefined Networking, IncGigaion, LLC

In-app purchases

None

Mobile Nebula

No in-app purchases

None

Airclone

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mobile Nebula free?
Mobile Nebula is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Airclone free?
Airclone costs $1.49, with no in-app purchases.
Do Mobile Nebula or Airclone have ads?
Neither Mobile Nebula nor Airclone shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mobile Nebula or Airclone?
Mobile Nebula ships an update every 2 months, and Airclone every 3 days. Most recently, Mobile Nebula was updated on October 14, 2026 and Airclone on October 4, 2026.

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