Clamshell vs MyPi Companion
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Clamshell
Monitor the status of all your Macs from your iPhone or iPad. This app allows you to track lid and system states remotely, ensuring you're always informed about your devices. It utilizes iCloud for secure data synchronization without third-party servers.
- Monitor Mac lid states
- Track system statuses (Awake, Sleep, etc.)
- Remote monitoring from iPhone/iPad
- iCloud synchronization
- Supports Mac desktops
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Clamshell goes to iPhone and iPad! This is an iOS version of the Clamshell app. It provides monitoring states of all your Macs from your iPhones and iPads that are signed in to the same iCloud account. Clamshell now supports sharing the laptop lid statuses and system statuses (Awake, Sleeping, Logging out, Restarting, Shutting down, Restarted, Shut Down, User Logged Out, App Terminated). More statuses will come in the year. No data is shared with third-party providers. Clamshell is not using any external servers but only Apple's iCloud servers. You're in full control of your data! Note for users of iMac, Mac mini, Mac Studio, and Mac Pro: Clamshell is useful for you finally! Use it to monitor statuses of your Mac desktops remotely from iPhone/iPad. Yay!
MyPi Companion
This app provides a unified mobile dashboard for managing multiple Pi-hole instances. It aggregates query volume, blocks, and client activity from all your Pi-hole servers into a single view.
- Unified Pi-hole aggregation
- Total query volume tracking
- Block statistics
- Per-client activity monitoring
- Native iOS and iPadOS client
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MyPi Companion is a native iOS and iPadOS client for MyPi — a self-hosted Pi-hole aggregation server that unifies every Pi-hole you run on your home or office network. If you have more than one Pi-hole instance, MyPi lets you see total query volume, blocks, and per-client activity across all of them in one place. This app is the mobile view.
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Verdict
Clamshell and MyPi Companion both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of MyPi Companion's written reviews are positive against 80% of Clamshell's. MyPi Companion also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 6 weeks). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Clamshell against 5.0 for MyPi Companion. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 80% of Clamshell's written reviews are positive against 100% of MyPi Companion's.
Clamshell ships an update every 6 weeks, MyPi Companion every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Clamshell | MyPi Companion |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.4 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alexander Kovrazhkin | TIA Partners, LLC |
Customer experience
Clamshell
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In-app purchases
Clamshell
No in-app purchases
MyPi Companion
No in-app purchases
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