NAS Guard vs QuickConvert
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NAS Guard
Monitor and control your TrueNAS SCALE server remotely from your iPhone. View live system status, storage health, and receive real-time alerts. An optional in-app purchase unlocks advanced control features.
- Live system monitoring dashboard
- Storage pool and dataset status
- Real-time alert notifications
- Remote control of services and tasks
- Snapshot creation and deletion
- Home and Lock Screen widgets
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NAS Guard – keep an eye on your TrueNAS, right from your iPhone. NAS Guard connects to your TrueNAS server over the encrypted WebSocket API (JSON-RPC) and shows your system's status and health clearly and in real time. MONITORING (free) - Dashboard: CPU, RAM, network throughput, load - Pools & datasets: capacity, status, scrub state - Disks: health, temperatures, ZFS errors (read/write/checksum) - Disk health forecast: drive health trend - Apps/containers, VMs and services: running status - View data protection: snapshots, Cloud Sync, Replication, Rsync, TrueCloud, Cron - Shares: SMB, NFS, iSCSI, NVMe-oF - Security & certificates, network interfaces, UPS - Your NAS system alerts FILES & PREVIEW (free) - Browse your NAS file system folder by folder, with size and modification date, folders first, and pull-to-refresh. - Rich Quick Look preview: photos (JPEG, PNG, GIF, HEIC, WebP, TIFF, BMP), PDF, plain text and code (JSON, XML, YAML, shell, Python, Swift, JS/TS, SQL and more) and office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Pages, Numbers, Keynote). - Built-in audio player (MP3, FLAC, WAV, AAC, M4A and more) with a live spectrum and waveform visualizer. - Video: MP4, MOV and M4V play directly (stream-optimized files stream without a full download). DO MORE WITH THE OPTIONAL AGENT (free, self-hosted) The NAS Guard Agent is a small container you install on your TrueNAS in one tap – just pick a pool and a port, no shell or compose editing. It keeps itself up to date automatically and adds: - Real-time alerts: get notified about outages and important events even when the app can't reach your NAS directly – faster and more reliable than background polling. - Live Activities (Control Pack): follow long-running jobs (scrub, resilver, replication, Cloud Sync, Rsync) live on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island, updated in the background even when the app is closed. - Full media streaming: play video of any size instantly with no download, and open containers Apple can't handle natively (MKV, AVI and more) via on-the-fly HLS remux – with hardware-accelerated transcoding on Intel/AMD GPUs when available. - Runs entirely on your own NAS. IN-APP PURCHASES – honest and transparent Free: - 1 server profile - Full read/monitoring feature set, files & preview, and the optional agent Unlimited Servers (one-time purchase): - As many server profiles as you like - Background monitoring of all servers (free: only the selected one) Control Pack (one-time purchase) – unlocks all control features: - Power: shut down, reboot and wake your NAS via Wake-on-LAN - Apps/containers: start, stop, redeploy, update (single & all) - VMs: start, stop, restart - Services: start/stop - Pools: start/stop scrub - Datasets: create, edit, delete, lock/unlock - Shares: create and enable/disable (SMB, NFS, iSCSI, NVMe-oF) - Data protection: run/abort/toggle Snapshot, Cloud Sync, Replication, Rsync, TrueCloud and Cron tasks - Live Activities (with paired agent) - AI assistant: ask questions about your NAS – fully on-device via Apple Intelligence, no cloud Tip (optional): small, medium or large support for development. Unlocks no features. GOOD TO KNOW - Without the Control Pack the app is fully usable read-only – you won't control anything by accident. - Wake-on-LAN must be enabled on your NAS first (BIOS/UEFI + network card) and only works on your local network, not remotely. - The AI assistant requires an Apple Intelligence-capable device with Apple Intelligence enabled. - All purchases are one-time – no subscriptions. NAS Guard is an independent project and is not affiliated with iXsystems or TrueNAS.
QuickConvert
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QuickConvert turns HEIC into JPG, shrinks photos that are too big to send, and builds PDFs. On your device, with no ads and nothing uploaded anywhere. UNLIMITED IMAGE CONVERSIONS, FREE - HEIC to JPG or PNG, PNG to JPG, JPG to PNG, WebP to either - Compress photos with a quality slider, and see the real before and after size - Up to 50 files at once, up to 100 MB each - Images to PDF, PDF to images, compress, merge and split PDFs YOUR PHOTOS KEEP THEIR DETAILS Capture date, location and orientation survive the conversion. Most converters quietly throw all three away, which is how a converted photo ends up sideways and sorted to the wrong place in your library. NOTHING LEAVES YOUR DEVICE No account, no sign in, no upload, no server. The app works in airplane mode, which is the simplest proof that your files stay with you. QUICKCONVERT PRO - PDF to Word and PDF to Excel, as editable .docx and .xlsx - Word, Excel and PowerPoint to PDF - Batches beyond 50 files, and files over 100 MB QuickConvert Pro is a subscription: 3.99 USD per month or 29.99 USD per year, shown in local currency by region. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. It renews automatically for the same price and period unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://thedolceway.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://thedolceway.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: QuickConvert at none against NAS Guard's 5. QuickConvert also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). NAS Guard's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 6 months). On price, ads 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
Both are free to download. NAS Guard sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. QuickConvert asks for nothing beyond the download.
NAS Guard ships an update every 2 days, QuickConvert every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | NAS Guard | QuickConvert |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (9 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hans Renz | Dt nova |
In-app purchases
NAS Guard
- Small Tip$0.99
- Unbegrenzte Server$0.99
- Control Pack$0.99
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- Medium Tip$2.99
- Large Tip$3.99
QuickConvert
No in-app purchases









