Squadnox vs CouchPortal

Squadnox provides you and your friends with free game servers. Whether you want to play for just a few hours or all night long, Squadnox makes setting up a server quick and easy. With our app, you can create and manage servers quickly, easily and, above all, free of charge. Simply invite your friends, boost your server and start playing right away. You can keep your server running for as long as you need it. After your gaming session, it stops automatically and saves your progress so that you can continue playing the next time. Squadnox automatically takes care of server setup, updates and hardware. Our game servers have up to 8 CPU cores and 16 GB RAM available and use super-fast NVME SSDs. So you never have to worry about your server again and can focus on playing instead. We are constantly adding new features and support for more games. But let us know if you are missing a feature or support for a game. We are always open to suggestions and feedback. We currently officially support the following games: - 7 Days To Die - Core Keeper - Don't Starve Together - Eco - Enshrouded - Hytale - Longvinter - Minecraft: Bedrock Edition - Minecraft: Java Edition - Palworld (Xbox & Game Pass) - Palworld (Steam) - Project Zomboid - Starbound - StarMade - Staxel - Terraria - tModLoader - Unturned - V Rising (PC) - V Rising (PS5) - Valheim - Veloren - Vintage Story

Consoles can't type in a server address. CouchPortal fixes that. Pick a server on your phone. Open Minecraft on your PlayStation or Xbox, go to Friends, and the server is there under LAN Games. Tap it and you're in. The console connects straight to the server; the phone is not a relay and is out of the loop the moment you join. WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT • It checks the server before you watch anything. If the address is wrong or the server is down, you find out in a second, not after an ad. • It tells you why. Wrong port, server offline, version mismatch: each gets a plain explanation and what to do about it. • It keeps the screen awake while it waits, so the console keeps seeing you. • Nothing to sign up for. No account, no analytics, no tracking prompt. • Unlimited servers. Add as many as you like. FREE, WITH ONE AD The free version shows one short video ad before each connection. That's it: no ads while you play, no ads on the console. One payment removes ads for good, no subscription, and Family Sharing covers everyone in the household. WHICH CONSOLES PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4: yes. Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One: yes. Nintendo Switch: no. The Switch has no LAN Games list at all, so this method cannot reach it. We say so up front because we'd rather you knew before downloading. HOW IT WORKS Your console is always looking for games on your home Wi‑Fi. CouchPortal answers that call from your phone, completes the handshake, and hands the console off to the real server. It uses Minecraft's own local-network feature and its own server-transfer mechanism. It does not modify the game. WHAT YOU NEED Your phone and your console on the same Wi‑Fi network, and a server address from your host. If your server uses Geyser, use the Bedrock port, not the Java one; the app will tell you if you mix them up. SUPPORT Help and a contact form are at couchportal.com/support. If something goes wrong, the app can send a problem report with one tap: what server you chose, whether it answered, and what the app did. No name, no email, nothing that identifies you. NOT AN OFFICIAL MINECRAFT PRODUCT. NOT APPROVED BY OR ASSOCIATED WITH MOJANG OR MICROSOFT.