UTM Remote Virtual Machines vs Magnetometer+ Metal Detector
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
UTM Remote Virtual Machines
Access and control your virtual machines from your iOS device. Stream Windows, Ubuntu, and other operating systems running on your Mac remotely. This app requires UTM for Mac to function.
- Stream virtual machines remotely
- Supports Windows, Ubuntu, and more
- Control VMs from iOS device
- Requires UTM for Mac
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Run Windows®, Ubuntu®, and other operating systems remotely from your Mac running UTM UTM Remote allows you to stream your virtual machines from your Mac to your iOS device. Requires UTM for Mac to use.
Magnetometer+ Metal Detector
Transform your device into a magnetic field detector. It measures magnetic field strength in real-time with a 3-axis display and provides visual alerts for metal and magnet detection. Explore the invisible magnetic world around you with a sleek, intuitive interface.
- Real-time magnetic field measurement
- 3-axis directional analysis
- Metal and magnet detection alerts
- Radar-style magnetic scanner
- N/S/E/W compass markings
- Adjustable sensitivity
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Magnetometer+ turns your iPhone's magnetic sensor into a metal detector and stud finder for iron and steel hidden in walls, floors and furniture, and shows the magnetic field around you in µT. ▶ WHAT IT FINDS — AND WHAT IT DOES NOT It detects ferrous metal: screws and nails in studs and joists, steel pipes, rebar, hinges, brackets and door strikes. The range is a few centimetres, so hold the phone against the surface and sweep slowly. It cannot detect gold, silver, copper, aluminium, wood or plastic. Those materials are not magnetic, and no phone sensor can find them. If you are looking for buried coins or copper wiring, this is not the tool. ▶ CALIBRATES FROM YOUR HAND Every phone's magnetic sensor carries a large built-in offset from its own speaker and battery magnets. Magnetometer+ learns that offset while you turn the phone, so tilting the phone does not look like metal. When the meter opens, a progress bar shows how far calibration has come: turn the phone slowly in every direction, and when the bar is full the reading goes live with a short vibration. Zero here re-learns it wherever you are. ▶ THREE METER MODES • Auto — a radial gauge of the field deviation • Earth Field — total field strength with a latitude band (low, normal, elevated, high) • Metal Detector — deviation from the background field with an intensity verdict, plus optional vibration pulses that quicken as you get closer ▶ SCANNER AND STUD FINDER The Scanner tab has a metal scanner for sweeping a surface and a Stud Finder that marks the strongest point as you slide the phone flat across a wall. It finds the nails and screws that hold drywall to the studs; it does not see the wood itself. ▶ COMPASS A compass with magnetic north or true north and the local declination. ▶ LIVE DATA • X, Y and Z field components on a live chart • Min, average, max and peak with elapsed time • Sensitivity from 0.5x to 2.0x • µT, mT and Gauss units ▶ HISTORY AND EXPORT • Readings are saved with a 7-day trend and a plain-language comparison • Favourites and side-by-side comparison of two readings • Continuous one-second logging with CSV export • Share a reading as an image, optional GPS tag on saved readings • Statistics report, unlocked for 24 hours by watching a short ad USEFUL FOR DIY AND RENOVATION · FINDING STUDS AND JOISTS · CHECKING FOR REBAR OR PIPES BEFORE DRILLING · PHYSICS CLASS AND MAGNET EXPERIMENTS
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Magnetometer+ Metal Detector at 100% against UTM Remote Virtual Machines's 38%. Magnetometer+ Metal Detector also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 4 months). UTM Remote Virtual Machines's advantage is rating (3.7 vs 3.0) and ads (none vs shown). On price 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.
UTM Remote Virtual Machines holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: UTM Remote Virtual Machines has 51 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 38% of UTM Remote Virtual Machines's written reviews are positive against 100% of Magnetometer+ Metal Detector's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
UTM Remote Virtual Machines ships an update every 4 months, Magnetometer+ Metal Detector every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | UTM Remote Virtual Machines | Magnetometer+ Metal Detector |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (51 ratings) — better | 3.0 (8 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 37.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 51 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Vision Pro — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 365 MB | 62 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Turing Software, LLC | Kyu-Hee Jang |
Customer experience
UTM Remote Virtual Machines
Magnetometer+ Metal Detector
In-app purchases
UTM Remote Virtual Machines
No in-app purchases
Magnetometer+ Metal Detector
No in-app purchases
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