Pi Stats Mobile vs mDNS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pi Stats Mobile
Monitor and control your Pi-hole network ad blocker remotely from your iPhone. View detailed statistics and manage your Pi-hole status, with an optional service for even deeper system insights.
- View Pi-hole statistics
- Enable/disable Pi-holes
- Pi Monitor for detailed data
- Import Pi-holes via QR code
- Open source application
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Pi Stats puts your entire Pi-hole network in your pocket. Monitor, manage, and fine-tune your ad blocking from your iPhone and iPad with a beautifully redesigned interface. Keep an eye on every Pi-hole at a glance, then tap in for the full picture. • See how your Pi-holes are doing and enable or disable blocking in a tap. • Manage multiple Pi-holes from one place. • Detailed stats: a 24-hour query history chart, query types, upstream destinations, and your top domains and clients. • Health monitoring: check your core, web, and FTL versions, see when an update is available, and review or clear diagnostic messages. • Query Log: browse and search your most recent DNS queries. • Powerful list management: allow or block domains (regex supported), block entire services, and update your blocklists and Gravity right from the app. • Pause from anywhere: disable and re-enable blocking from Control Center, with a Live Activity countdown. • Home Screen and Control Center widgets to keep your stats close. • Pi Monitor* support for deeper insight into your Raspberry Pi: temperature, memory usage, uptime, and load average. • Quick setup: import your Pi-holes from Pi Stats for macOS by scanning a QR code. PRIVATE & OPEN SOURCE Pi Stats doesn't track anything you do. It's 100% open source, so you can check out the code via the Support URL. * Pi Monitor is an additional service that needs to be installed on your Raspberry Pi.
mDNS
Discover and manage Bonjour, DNS SD, and Avahi services on your local network. Filter, sort, and verify network services with detailed insights and direct access to URLs.
- Discover Bonjour, DNS SD, and Avahi services
- Browse by service type with presets and custom options
- View IPv4 and IPv6 addresses
- Filter by instance name, hostname, type, and more
- Sort and manage scan results
- Perform TCP/UDP reachability checks
- Open HTTP/HTTPS URLs in browser
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mDNS Browser helps you discover Bonjour, DNS SD (DNS Service Discovery), and common Avahi-advertised services on your local network. What you can do • Browse by service type, with useful presets and custom types • See IPv4 and IPv6 together, and filter what matters to you • Quick filter across instance name, hostname, type, addresses, and TXT records • Sort results so large scans stay manageable • Open a detail view, copy IPs and TXT lines, and run TCP or UDP reachability checks (chosen automatically from the service type) • Open HTTP or HTTPS in the system browser when a service resolves to a usable URL Privacy • Discovery runs on your LAN; the app is not designed to upload your scan results to our servers (there is no account system in the app). Notes • Whether a service appears depends on it actually advertising on the current network, and on multicast not being blocked by routers, VLANs, or firewalls. • Some services bind only to certain interfaces or subnets and may be invisible from other devices. Turn noisy LAN discovery into a clear, filterable, verifiable dashboard.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: mDNS at 5.0 against Pi Stats Mobile's 4.2. mDNS also leads on iOS requirement (16.6 vs 26.0). Pi Stats Mobile's advantage is ratings volume (13 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
Pi Stats Mobile costs $1.99 and mDNS $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
mDNS holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pi Stats Mobile has 13 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Pi Stats Mobile | mDNS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | $1.99 |
| Rating | 4.2 (13 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 16.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Fernando Bunn | 海锋 蓝 |
Customer experience
Pi Stats Mobile
mDNS
In-app purchases
Pi Stats Mobile
No in-app purchases
mDNS
No in-app purchases









