MQTT Loupe vs Your Button
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MQTT Loupe
Inspect MQTT messages exchanged on a broker with this intuitive utility. Connect to brokers, subscribe to topics, and view message details. Features include JSON highlighting, hex viewer, and secure connection options.
- Inspect MQTT messages
- Connect to any MQTT broker
- Subscribe to topics
- Full-text search across topics
- JSON highlighting
- Hex viewer for binary payloads
- Secure connection options
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MQTT Loupe is an intuitive utility to inspect MQTT messages exchanged on an MQTT broker. Connect to any public or local MQTT broker, subscribe to topics and view details of messages being transmitted. Don't remember that one message or topic? Fire up the search to find it instantly using full-text search through all topics, and results updating live with new hits appearing as they arrive. With built-in JSON highlighting, this app is perfect for monitoring Zigbee2Mqtt. And if you need to work with binary message payloads, the built-in hex viewer has you covered. Got frequently used topics that are further down the hierarchy? Make them favorites for easy and instant access. Concerned about security? Let the server's certificate be validated before connecting; you don't have to allow insecure connections based on untrusted certificates. Need more? Provide a client certificate to authenticate yourself against the server. All features in a nutshell: - clean and simple interface - hierarchical topic view - sidebar with history of recently opened topics - powerful full-text search capabilities across all topics and for a single message - search results are automatically updated when new messages arrive - extended message details, with proper formatting and syntax highlighting of JSON messages - support for binary message payloads, displayed as either ISO Latin-1 or in a hex view - easily copy any topic or message value - authentication with username/password or client certificates - connect over MQTT or WebSocket protocol - support for MQTT 3.1.1 and MQTT 5 - support for SSL/TLS - support for the Server Name Indication (SNI) TLS extension - support for self-signed certificates - full server certificate validation - manage and connect multiple brokers at once - full support for quality of service
Your Button
Easily share the status of shared resources with friends and family. Know if an office, laundry machine, or car is currently in use. Set timers for automatic status resets.
- Share resource status
- Name custom buttons
- Share with friends/family
- Auto unpress timer
- Real-time updates
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Useful for sharing resources with friends and family • Sharing an office? • Sharing the laundry machine? • Sharing a car or bicycle? • Sharing the water stream? Stay in the loop and let them know if it's in use right now! • Choose a name for your button • Share your button with friends and family • You can add a timer to auto unpress
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: MQTT Loupe at 13.0 against Your Button's 16.4. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
MQTT Loupe ships an update every 3 weeks, Your Button every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MQTT Loupe | Your Button |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jakob Bieling | Omer Hochman |
Customer experience
MQTT Loupe
Your Button
In-app purchases
MQTT Loupe
No in-app purchases
Your Button
No in-app purchases
