Comparison

Solian vs MumbleWay

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

Head to head
About

Solian

Connect with friends globally through text, voice, and video calls. Share your thoughts and publish content to a worldwide audience. Organize your posts and chat channels with an innovative realm system.

Highlights
  • Text, voice, and video calls
  • Global content publishing
  • Realm system for organization
  • OpenAPI for developers
  • Community management tools
Features
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The Solar Network — A platform that connects everyone, everywhere. With Solar Network (also known as Solian), you can seamlessly stay in touch with your friends through texts, voice, and video calls. Share your thoughts, express yourself, and publish content that can reach a global audience, allowing everyone on the planet to see what you have to say. But that’s not all. Our innovative realm system allows you to organize your content, such as posts and chat channels, effortlessly. Whether you’re managing a community or sharing personal updates, Solar Network gives you the tools to keep things structured. Plus, with our comprehensive OpenAPI, developers can easily access and integrate all the data available on the platform, opening up endless possibilities for customization and new features. Explore the full range of features that Solar Network has to offer today! P.S.: Solian is the official client app for the Solar Network.

About

MumbleWay

This app provides a specialized voice communication client for Mumble servers, designed to overcome wind and engine noise for motorcyclists. It features advanced noise cancellation and voice activation, allowing for clear conversations at high speeds.

Highlights
  • Advanced wind and engine noise suppression
  • Voice activation with adjustable delay
  • Push-to-talk and open microphone modes
  • Bluetooth remote control support
  • Floating window and Picture-in-Picture modes
  • Automatic reconnection and audio backgrounding
Features
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MumbleWay is a voice client for Mumble servers, built for talking from inside a motorcycle helmet at speed. Wind is the hard part. At speed it is loud, broadband and relentless, and it defeats the suppression in ordinary voice apps, which was tuned for offices. MumbleWay's chain is built for a different problem: a steep high-pass that strips wind and engine rumble before anything else sees it, a neural denoiser for the broadband roar, and a transmit decision that measures your voice against a noise floor which climbs with speed. A steady drone raises that floor with it and never clears the margin, however loud. Speech does. YOU NEED A MUMBLE SERVER MumbleWay connects to any of them — a friend's box, one at the clubhouse, a public server from the built-in directory, or one you run yourself. It is a client, not a service: no account, no subscription, nobody's servers in the middle. BUILT FOR A BIKE • Noise profiles from Light to Helmet, or Auto, which picks from what it hears and shows where it landed. • Voice activation opens 240 ms ahead of its own decision, so a word keeps its first consonant; the delay is then paid back to 200 ms. • Push to talk, voice activation, or open microphone. • Works over Bluetooth intercom headsets on the hands-free profile, where the boom microphone lives. • Pair a handlebar Bluetooth remote and it learns whatever yours actually sends, rather than offering a list of keys that may not match it. Hold to talk, or tap to toggle. • Walkie-talkie cues on key and unkey, so you know you are live without looking down. FOR WHEN YOU ARE NOT LOOKING AT THE SCREEN • A floating window over your navigation app on Android, Picture in Picture on iPhone and iPad, a panel on Mac. • A falling two-tone when the connection drops and a rising one when it returns — you learn from the headset, not from silence. • Automatic reconnection unless you disconnected yourself: every ten seconds with a countdown, and at once when signal returns. • Audio keeps running with the screen locked and the phone in a pocket. TALKING TO PEOPLE • Channel tree and roster, with per-person mute and volume. • Group voice with no range limit: everyone joins one channel over mobile data. • Two servers connected at once. • Live ping per server, and whether voice goes direct over UDP or is tunnelled through TCP when a carrier will not pass it. • A jitter buffer that plays a backlog off at up to double speed, rather than leaving everybody a second behind. • Join or share by QR code or a mumble:// link. • Reach a server through an HTTP or SOCKS5 proxy when the network cuts the connection — one server or all, voice direct or through it too, and shared like a server. • If the server is yours: groups, permissions, registration, kick and ban. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Voice is encrypted with AES-128 and the control channel runs over TLS. Server certificates are pinned on first connection and a changed one is refused until you say otherwise. MumbleWay has no servers of its own, no analytics and no advertising. ON AN OLDER PHONE A block of audio arrives every 10 ms and the chain has to finish before the next one. If your phone cannot manage that, MumbleWay turns stages off one at a time, cheapest first — and says which ones, rather than quietly sounding worse. DIAGNOSTICS An optional panel shows the chain working — the spectrum before and after suppression, and which stage stopped a sound reaching the far end. A recorder, off unless you switch it on, captures what your headset hears on a ride, to play back as the far end heard it. NOT ONLY ON A BIKE In a quiet room the Light profile takes almost nothing out. At a desk or at 120 km/h, the same client: Opus at 48 kHz, no account, no telemetry. MumbleWay is free and open source. It is an independent client, not affiliated with the Mumble project. MADE BY Ilya Melamed Site: https://zavitax.github.io/mumbleway/ Source: https://github.com/zavitax/mumbleway Chat: https://discord.gg/NTASPRFjm

Screenshots

Solian4 screens
MumbleWay4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Solian at 5.0 against MumbleWay's 4.5. MumbleWay's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Solian sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. MumbleWay asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Solian holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Solian ships an update monthly, MumbleWay every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Solian versus MumbleWay: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSolianMumbleWay
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better4.5 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings4 — better2
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size191 MB116 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer君阳 蒋Ilya Melamed

Customer experience

Solian

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

MumbleWay

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Solian

One-time1
  • Golden Points$1.59
None

MumbleWay

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Solian free?
Solian is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is MumbleWay free?
MumbleWay is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Solian or MumbleWay?
Solian is rated higher. Solian averages 5.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while MumbleWay averages 4.5 from 2 ratings.
Do Solian or MumbleWay have ads?
Neither Solian nor MumbleWay shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Solian or MumbleWay?
Solian ships an update monthly, and MumbleWay every 3 weeks. Most recently, Solian was updated on November 10, 2026 and MumbleWay on November 6, 2026.

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