IoT Parrot vs MQTT Commander

IoT Parrot is the easiest way for hobbyists to control ESP32, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and any other MQTT-capable device from one place. Point it at your MQTT broker — your own, or the IoT Parrot managed broker — describe the topics your devices use, and build a dashboard that actually matches your project. BUILD DASHBOARDS THAT FIT YOUR PROJECT Drag and drop switches, buttons, sliders, gauges, charts, text readouts, and map widgets. Every widget is bound to a topic you choose, so a dashboard can pull from one device or from several at once. CONTROL FROM ANYWHERE Publish and subscribe over MQTT with TLS. Connect to a broker on your local network — a Mosquitto install on a Raspberry Pi works out of the box — or to one reachable over the internet. AUTOMATE ON A SCHEDULE Run MQTT actions on cron-based schedules. Turn the lights on at sunset, water the plants every morning, cycle a pump for ten minutes twice a day. TAP AN NFC TAG TO FIRE AN ACTION Stick a tag by the door, on a workbench, next to the coffee machine. One tap publishes the payload you configured. ALERTS THAT REACH YOU Set conditions on your device readings and get a push notification and an email when a value crosses a threshold or a device stops reporting. SHARE WITH YOUR HOUSEHOLD Give family members read access to specific dashboards. Everyone sees the same lights, the same garden sensors, the same controls. MADE FOR TINKERERS No proprietary hardware. No lock-in. If your device speaks MQTT, IoT Parrot can talk to it. ABOUT THIS APP Everything works from your iPhone: add a broker, describe your devices, and build dashboards right in the app. The web app at app.iotparrot.com uses the same account, so anything you set up on one shows up on the other. SUBSCRIPTIONS IoT Parrot is free to use. A new account includes 1 broker, 3 devices, and 3 dashboards, and no payment information is required. Optional monthly plans raise those limits and unlock alerts, multi-device dashboards, and data logging: - IoT Parrot Hobby Monthly - 1 month - IoT Parrot Maker Monthly - 1 month - IoT Parrot Pro Monthly - 1 month Plans start at $2.99 per month (US). Prices vary by region and are shown in your local currency on the subscription screen in the app before you buy. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. You can manage your subscription and turn off auto-renewal in your Apple Account settings after purchase. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://iotparrot.com/privacy Documentation: https://iotparrot.com/docs Support: https://iotparrot.com/contact

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 14 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. BROKER BEHIND AN SSH SERVER Reach a broker that only listens on localhost or a private network: turn on SSH in the broker profile and the app opens a tunnel through your server first. Sign in with a password, an OpenSSH key, or a key created on this device in the Secure Enclave, with server 2FA codes when the server asks. The first connection shows the host key fingerprint in full, and a changed key stops the app before it sends your password or key. Connection Doctor checks the SSH server, host key, sign-in and tunnel before TLS and MQTT. 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, including a full check through SSH, pin five topics to the Board and keep the first one on your Home Screen as a widget. Pro is a one-time unlock with no subscription, and it covers the part that runs while you look elsewhere: sessions through an SSH server, Lock Screen widgets and the other Home Screen widgets, 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, directly or through an SSH tunnel. 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.