Comparison

IoT NET vs MQTT Commander

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

Head to head
About

IoT NET

Features
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IoT NET is an IoT platform for data collection, processing, visualization, and device management. It enables device connectivity via industry standard IoT protocols - MQTT, CoAP and HTTP and supports integration OPC-UA, AWS, Azure, RabbitMQ and many other. IoT NET combines scalability, fault-tolerance and performance so you will never lose your data. Provision and manage devices and assets Provision, monitor and control your IoT entities in secure way using rich server-side APIs. Define relations between your devices, assets, customers or any other entities. Collect and visualize data Collect and store telemetry data in scalable and fault-tolerant way. Visualize your data with built-in or custom widgets and flexible dashboards. Share dashboards with your customers. SCADA High-performance Monitor and control your industrial processes in real time with SCADA. Use SCADA symbols on dashboards to create and manage any workflow, offering full flexibility to design and oversee operations according to your requirements. Process and React Define data processing rule chains. Transform and normalize your device data. Raise alarms on incoming telemetry events, attribute updates, device inactivity and user actions. Microservices Construct your IoT NET cluster and get maximum scalability and fault-tolerance with microservices architecture.

About

MQTT Commander

Monitor your MQTT broker's activity in real-time with live topic updates and detailed payload inspection. Visualize data trends, manage messages, and publish new ones with advanced options. Troubleshoot connection issues with a guided diagnostic tool.

Highlights
  • Live topic tree with values
  • Detailed payload inspection with sparklines
  • Pinned topics as live tiles
  • Message logging and filtering
  • Publishing messages with QoS and retain
  • 13-stage connection diagnostic tool
  • Privacy-focused data handling
Features
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Connect to your broker and the topic tree fills in within seconds, with the latest value next to each topic. Tap one to see the value in large type, a sparkline of how it moved, and the JSON split field by field. FOUR SCREENS, ONE JOB EACH • Topics: the tree of what your broker publishes, with filters for what changes, what is retained, what you pinned • Board: pinned topics as live tiles, so one look tells you the greenhouse sits at 21.4 °C and the pump went quiet 6 minutes ago • Log: messages in order, with presets for errors, your own publishes and retained values • Publish: a topic, a payload, Send. QoS, retain, content type and expiry sit one tap away USE IT TO • Watch Home Assistant, Zigbee2MQTT, Mosquitto and ESPHome without opening a laptop • Find the topic a new device announced itself on • Read a JSON payload by field and compare it with the message before • Send a test message and see what the broker answers, including a refusal • Clear a retained payload that keeps coming back WHEN IT WON'T CONNECT Connection Doctor walks the connection in 13 stages and names the one that failed: DNS, TCP, TLS handshake, certificate chain, expiry, hostname, ALPN and SNI, CONNACK, authentication, protocol version, and a write test against the broker ACL. You get the stage, the reason and what to change, instead of a red banner. PRIVACY Values that look like tokens, passwords or keys stay behind a tap. Exported logs carry hashed topics and metadata, no payloads. Anonymous crash and usage diagnostics are on by default and switch off in Settings. No ad tracking, no data sold. PRO The app is free: watch topics, read payloads, publish with QoS and retain, run the Connection Doctor, pin five topics to the Board. Pro is a one-time unlock with no subscription, and it covers the part that runs while you look elsewhere: widgets on the Lock Screen and Home Screen, pins without a limit, history that survives a restart, whole-broker discovery, more broker profiles, one certificate reused across every broker, saved commands with Siri and Shortcuts, log export as CSV or JSON, and the full Doctor report to share. Bought the paid app before it went free? You keep Pro at no cost. WORKS WITH Home Assistant, Mosquitto, Zigbee2MQTT, ESPHome, Node-RED, ESP32 and ESP8266, and any broker speaking MQTT 3.1.1 or 5.0 over TCP, TLS, mTLS or WebSocket. REQUIREMENTS • iOS 17 or later, iPhone and iPad • Local Network access for brokers on your LAN Demo mode lets you look around before you connect anything.

Screenshots

IoT NET4 screens
MQTT Commander4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: IoT NET at 12.0 against MQTT Commander's 17.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
IoT NET versus MQTT Commander: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIoT NETMQTT Commander
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequency—Every 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size46 MB22 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSCSAutomationVladimir Chemeris

In-app purchases

None

IoT NET

No in-app purchases

None

MQTT Commander

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is IoT NET free?
IoT NET is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is MQTT Commander free?
MQTT Commander is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do IoT NET or MQTT Commander have ads?
Neither IoT NET nor MQTT Commander shows ads.

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