Comparison

Firezone vs DOCSIOS

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

Head to head
About

Firezone

This open-source platform provides secure, granular remote access for organizations. It leverages WireGuard for speed and integrates with identity providers for dynamic policy management, offering least-privileged access to specific applications or subnets.

Highlights
  • Open-source platform
  • Granular access management
  • Least-privileged access policies
  • WireGuard protocol integration
  • Identity provider integration
  • Group-based policies
Features
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Firezone is an open source platform to manage remote access for any-sized organization. Unlike most VPNs, Firezone takes a granular, least-privileged approach to access management with group-based policies that control access to individual applications, entire subnets, and everything in between. Built on WireGuard®, a new VPN protocol 3-4 times faster than OpenVPN, Firezone integrates with your identity provider to ensure policies remain up to date with your organization's latest directory information.

About

DOCSIOS

Features
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DOCSIOS is a native companion app for DOCSight, the open-source DOCSIS network monitoring tool. It brings your cable connection metrics to iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, widgets, and Live Activities. Get a clear overview of your connection health with signal-family cards, mini charts, range bars, recent events, collector status, speed test results, and monitoring data. DOCSIOS helps you understand downstream and upstream power, SNR/MER, modulation, OFDM/OFDMA, and uncorrectable errors without digging through raw modem data. Open focused details for channels, trends, modulation, events, speed tests, monitor targets, segment utilization, comparisons, BQM, Smokeping, snapshots, incidents, exports, and complaint workflows. The Apple Watch app and Home Screen widgets make it easy to check your connection at a glance. Local badges, notifications, and Live Activities help you keep track of relevant status changes and unacknowledged events. DOCSIOS communicates exclusively with your self-hosted DOCSight instance. No diagnostic data is collected, sold, or transmitted to third parties by DOCSIOS. DOCSIOS requires a running DOCSight backend. Full functionality requires a recent DOCSight version with current dashboard and signal-family metric support. DOCSIOS is an independent community project and is not developed or maintained by the official DOCSight team.

Screenshots

Firezone4 screens
DOCSIOS4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Firezone at 16.0 against DOCSIOS's 26.0. 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Firezone ships an update every 3 weeks, DOCSIOS every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on September 11, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Firezone versus DOCSIOS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFirezoneDOCSIOS
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS16.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFirezone, Inc.Jens Sproede

In-app purchases

None

Firezone

No in-app purchases

None

DOCSIOS

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Firezone free?
Firezone is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is DOCSIOS free?
DOCSIOS is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Firezone or DOCSIOS have ads?
Neither Firezone nor DOCSIOS shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Firezone or DOCSIOS?
Firezone ships an update every 3 weeks, and DOCSIOS every 10 days. Most recently, Firezone was updated on September 11, 2026 and DOCSIOS on September 24, 2026.

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