Comparison

ShakeStation Resolve vs Bitaxe Baller

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

Head to head
About

ShakeStation Resolve

Features
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ShakeStation Resolve Access the decentralized web with ShakeStation Resolve. This app lets you resolve any Handshake name directly on your iPhone. Built with privacy in mind, all DNS queries are encrypted using DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH). No tracking, no logins, no clutter. Just fast, secure access to Handshake-powered websites and services. Why Handshake? Handshake is a decentralized naming system that replaces the traditional DNS root with a blockchain-based alternative. It gives you full ownership of domain names and protects against censorship or centralized control. ShakeStation Resolve is provided by ShakeStation, a trusted name in the Handshake ecosystem. Explore the next generation of the internet, right from your phone.

About

Bitaxe Baller

This companion app provides a live, remote view of your Bitcoin miners. It requires a separate desktop application to be installed and configured first. Monitor hashrate, power draw, efficiency, and device-specific metrics securely from your phone.

Highlights
  • Live fleet view
  • Per-device drill-down
  • Severity-colored device cards
  • Pool and stratum readout
  • Recent events log
  • Biometric unlock
Features
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IMPORTANT — Bitaxe Baller for iOS is a companion viewer for the Bitaxe Baller desktop application. It does NOT work as a standalone tool. You need to install Bitaxe Baller on your home Mac, Windows PC, or Umbrel server FIRST (free download at bitaxeballer.com), add your Bitaxe miners there, enable Remote Access in the desktop's Pro panel, and then pair this iOS app to that desktop install. Without a paired desktop, this app has nothing to show. If you already run the desktop app at home, this companion app brings the live view to your phone. No port forwarding, no VPN, no fixed IP. The desktop app on your home network opens an outbound connection to relay.bitaxeballer.com; the iOS app talks to the same relay and is routed to your devices using your license key as the credential. The relay does dumb routing only — all product logic stays on your local install. WHAT THE APP SHOWS • Live fleet view — total hashrate, total power draw, average efficiency in J/TH, online count. Updates every five seconds. • Per-device drill-down — tap any device card for live metrics, rolling averages (1-minute through 1-hour), recent hashrate chart, ASIC and VR temperature charts. • Severity-colored cards — green for stable, yellow for elevated temps or HW errors climbing, red for critical (overheating, offline, error rate over five percent). • Pool and stratum readout — primary and fallback URLs, suggested difficulty, fallback flag, current pool difficulty. • Recent events — tuning changes, restarts, pool changes. SECURITY • Face ID or Touch ID fires on every cold launch — your license key never sits in a webview-readable place without biometric unlock first. • 24-hour session tokens, signed server-side. Revokable instantly by turning off remote access in the desktop app. • No analytics, no tracking, no third-party SDKs. The app makes exactly three network calls: POST /login at startup with your license key, a WebSocket connection to relay.bitaxeballer.com for routing your data, and the standard system-level calls iOS makes regardless. READ-ONLY COMPANION The iOS app is a read-only viewer. Tuning your miners, scanning your LAN for new devices, and configuring pools all happen on the desktop app. We're a remote-monitoring tool, not a standalone controller. REQUIREMENTS • The Bitaxe Baller desktop application running on your home network (free download — see our website for setup instructions). • One or more Bitaxe Bitcoin miners on the same LAN as the desktop install. • A license key obtained from your desktop install (entered once on first launch; persisted to the device's secure enclave behind biometric unlock). OPEN SOURCE The desktop app and this iOS wrapper are MIT-licensed. The relay protocol is documented in the same repo. If you want to audit the license validation flow or the biometric storage layer, all of it is plain Python and JavaScript on GitHub. Questions? Visit our support site or open a GitHub Issue.

Screenshots

ShakeStation Resolve1 screens
Bitaxe Baller4 screens

Verdict

The call

ShakeStation Resolve and Bitaxe Baller are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
ShakeStation Resolve versus Bitaxe Baller: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShakeStation ResolveBitaxe Baller
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequency—Every 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS14.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEskimo SoftwareNathan Baldwin

In-app purchases

None

ShakeStation Resolve

No in-app purchases

None

Bitaxe Baller

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ShakeStation Resolve free?
ShakeStation Resolve is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bitaxe Baller free?
Bitaxe Baller is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ShakeStation Resolve or Bitaxe Baller have ads?
Neither ShakeStation Resolve nor Bitaxe Baller shows ads.

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