Comparison

NetExperience vs Open Relay

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

Head to head
About

NetExperience

Manage and deploy Wi-Fi networks with a cloud-native controller. This platform supports multi-vendor access points and offers analytics, automation, and remote troubleshooting for various use cases.

Highlights
  • Cloud-native WLAN controller
  • Multi-vendor Access Point management
  • Analytics and Dashboard
  • Remote Troubleshooting
  • Network Automation
  • OpenRoaming compatibility
Features
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NetExperience provides a software platform compatible with Open Wi-Fi allowing service providers, MSPs or IT departments to deploy and manage Wi-Fi networks. Open Wi-Fi is driven by the Telecom Infra Project with the key goal to enable disaggregated networks – ability of software to control multiple hardware vendor solutions. The NetExperience platform provides the following capabilities: • Full Cloud native WLAN controller able to control multi-vendor Access Points compatible with the Open Wi-Fi specifications. These Access Points can range from low cost to high performance, indoor or outdoor and allow the single Cloud controller to be used in multiple use cases: residential, education, hospitality, enterprise, smart city, offload, etc. • Full Management system compatible with multi-vendor Access Points • Analytics and Dashboard • Remote Troubleshooting • Network Automation • Compatibility with OpenRoaming

About

Open Relay

This app provides a native iOS and iPadOS client for Open WebUI, allowing users to chat with AI models on their server. It features real-time markdown rendering, voice calls with AI, and an admin console for server management.

Highlights
  • Native iOS & iPadOS client
  • Streaming chat with rich markdown
  • Voice calls with AI
  • Admin console for server settings
  • Terminal integration with file browser
  • On-device voice processing
  • Prompt library and skills integration
Features
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Your AI. Your server. Your pocket. Open Relay is a fully native iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch app for Open WebUI. Chat with any model on your own server in a fast, polished app built on Apple's frameworks, including Liquid Glass on iOS 26. — STREAMING CHAT, BEAUTIFULLY RENDERED — Responses stream in live with full markdown: syntax-highlighted code, tables, math, Mermaid diagrams, SVGs, live charts, and interactive Rich UI embeds from your tools. Run Python code blocks with a tap. Continue, fork, rate, or listen to any reply. — VOICE CALLS & DICTATION — Call your AI like you'd call a friend. CallKit makes it feel like a real phone call, with an animated orb that reacts as you talk. Dictate hands-free with a live timer on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. — PRIVATE, ON-DEVICE VOICE — Neural text-to-speech and speech-to-text run entirely on your device using Apple's MLX. Download once and nothing leaves your phone. Server and system voices are supported too. — APPLE WATCH — Read and reply to your chats and channels, or ask with Siri, right from your wrist. — A POWERFUL COMPOSER — Type @ to switch models, / for prompts, # for knowledge, and $ for skills. Attach files, photos, notes, or knowledge bases, and queue messages while the AI is still replying. — TOOLS, AGENTS & TASKS — Turn tools on or off per chat, connect MCP tools that need sign-in, approve tool actions, and answer the model's questions inline. Agentic models plan multi-step work in a live task list. — TERMINAL — Give your AI a real Linux terminal. Browse, search, edit, and preview files, upload whole folders, preview running ports, and watch the model's commands run live. — KNOWLEDGE (RAG) & SEARCH — Organize knowledge bases into folders, upload or sync entire directories, and search across your chats, files, and documents. — NOTES, CALENDAR & AUTOMATIONS — Write and share notes, and chat with the AI about them. Manage calendars, repeating events, and invitations. Schedule prompts to run automatically. — CHANNELS — Team chat rooms for people and AI models, with direct messages, threads, replies, reactions, webhooks, and notifications. — ORGANIZE EVERYTHING — Folders with their own system prompts, models, knowledge, emoji, and backgrounds. Shared folders, pinned chats, unread markers synced with the web, bulk archive, and share links with access control. — WORKSPACE & ADMIN CONSOLE — Manage models, knowledge, prompts, skills, and tools. Admins can run the whole server from the app: users, groups, connections, functions, MCP servers, evaluations, analytics, and settings. — WORKS EVERYWHERE YOU DO — Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, Shortcuts, the Action Button, the Share Extension, and deep links. Reply straight from notifications, and get alerted when a response finishes in the background. — YOUR SERVERS, YOUR WAY — Save multiple servers and accounts and switch instantly. Sign in with a password, LDAP, SSO, passkeys, or Face ID. Works behind Authelia, Authentik, Cloudflare, custom headers, and client certificates (mTLS). — MAKE IT YOURS — Accent colors, a pure black OLED mode, customizable message actions, and separate text sizes for messages, titles, the message box, and the rest of the app. Requires your own Open WebUI server. Your models. Your rules.

Screenshots

NetExperience3 screens
Open Relay4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: NetExperience at Free against Open Relay's $9.99. NetExperience also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.1). Open Relay's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 15 months) and ratings volume (35 vs 1). On rating, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

NetExperience is free to download; Open Relay costs $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for NetExperience against 5.0 for Open Relay. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Open Relay has 35 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

NetExperience ships an update every 15 months, Open Relay every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
NetExperience versus Open Relay: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNetExperienceOpen Relay
PriceFree — better$9.99
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (35 ratings)
Positive reviews—88.6% of reviews
Number of ratings135 — better
Update frequencyEvery 15 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
Best chart rank—#72 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.1
Further details — not scored
Size63 MB92 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNetexperience Inc.Abhishek Bhardwaj

Customer experience

NetExperience

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Open Relay

All ratings35 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews35 reviews
Positive88.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative11.4%

In-app purchases

None

NetExperience

No in-app purchases

None

Open Relay

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is NetExperience free?
NetExperience is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Open Relay free?
Open Relay costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, NetExperience or Open Relay?
NetExperience and Open Relay are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 35 ratings respectively.
Do NetExperience or Open Relay have ads?
Neither NetExperience nor Open Relay shows ads.
Which is updated more often, NetExperience or Open Relay?
NetExperience ships an update every 15 months, and Open Relay every 2 days. Most recently, NetExperience was updated on October 7, 2026 and Open Relay on October 15, 2026.

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