TrueNAS Pulse vs Sync Anything
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TrueNAS Pulse
Monitor and manage your TrueNAS servers remotely with this native iPhone app. It offers live system visibility, alert management, and essential operational controls. A free tier provides core monitoring, while a one-time purchase unlocks advanced features for fleet management and deeper reporting.
- Live system monitoring
- Alert management
- Remote actions for services and VMs
- ZFS snapshot creation
- File browser and audit log viewer
- Home Screen widgets
- Fleet visibility and comparison
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Check on your TrueNAS server from anywhere. See pool health, catch alerts, and follow jobs, apps, and VMs from your iPhone, without opening the web UI. Free for up to 2 servers, with no time limit. Pro is a one-time purchase with no subscription. No ads, no tracking. TrueNAS Pulse is a native, independent iPhone app for TrueNAS SCALE 24.04 and later, including TrueNAS 25.10, 26, and the 27.0 release candidate. It is built for sysadmins, operators, and homelab users. The free tier is useful forever: live monitoring, 1-hour history, alerts, storage health, jobs, one local monitor on the active server, widgets, and essential operational visibility. TrueNAS Pulse Pro is a one-time purchase that unlocks deeper reporting, unlimited monitors, fleet visibility, and the full guarded operator toolset. All high-risk actions require explicit confirmation before anything is changed on the server. FREE - Live dashboard for CPU, memory, network, and storage status - 1-hour reporting history for CPU, memory, and network - ZFS pool health, disks, temperatures, datasets, and snapshots - Recovery Readiness diagnostics for dataset snapshot coverage and task health - Alerts, jobs, services, apps, and VM status for triage - Dismiss and acknowledge alerts to keep the signal clean - Create ZFS snapshots on demand - Start, stop, and force-stop native containers on supported TrueNAS 26/27 releases - One local monitor on the active server - Network interface status and routing overview - Read-only file browser and audit log viewer - Up to 2 servers with fast server switching - Home Screen widget for glanceable server health TRUENAS PULSE PRO - Unlimited monitors across your servers - Historical reporting graphs with 6H, 24H, 7D, and 30D views - Storage runway with per-pool fill-rate trends and projected days remaining - Fleet view and server comparison - Protection Audit for SMB/NFS shares, iSCSI zvols, and native-container datasets, with fleet recovery trends and monitor recommendations - Configuration drift comparison - Live log streaming - Disk and VDEV management - Snapshot delete, clone, and rollback tools - Guarded service, app, and VM lifecycle controls - Network editing, share management, and service configuration tools - Data protection controls, batch actions, job abort, and system update installation - Reboot, shutdown, support bundle generation, config backup export, and config restore - Server Console access on supported TrueNAS SCALE releases - Live Activities for scrubs, replications, and updates on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island - Opt-in iCloud sync for your server list, monitor configurations, and app settings - Up to 8 servers SECURITY - API tokens are stored in iOS Keychain and never synced to iCloud - Strict TLS validation with optional per-server self-signed certificate trust - No analytics, tracking, advertising SDKs, or external telemetry - Connects directly to your servers; there is no developer-operated relay or cloud service IMPORTANT - Independent third-party app - Not affiliated with or endorsed by iXsystems, Inc. - Requires a self-hosted TrueNAS SCALE server with remote API access enabled Terms of Use: https://truenaspulse.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://truenaspulse.com/privacy
Sync Anything
This app enables private, peer-to-peer file synchronization between your iPhone and other devices like Macs, PCs, and Linux boxes. It uses the standard Syncthing protocol, ensuring your data moves directly between your devices without any cloud servers involved. Sync documents, photos, and any file type, with options for one-way or two-way synchronization.
- Peer-to-peer file synchronization
- No cloud servers
- Sync documents, photos, and any file type
- QR code device pairing
- Send-only, receive-only, or two-way sync
- Real-time status updates
- Integrates with Files app
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Sync Anything is a native iPhone client for Syncthing — the popular open-source, peer-to-peer file synchronization project. It speaks the standard Syncthing protocol, so your iPhone syncs directly with any Mac, PC, Linux box or NAS already running Syncthing. No cloud sits in the middle. Your data never touches our servers — because there are no servers. Files move directly between your own devices, encrypted in transit. WHY YOU'LL LIKE IT • Fully Syncthing-compatible: standard protocol, local discovery, relays and TLS device authentication. • No cloud. Files go straight from device to device, over your LAN or through relays. • No subscription. One-time purchase, yours forever. • No account. Nothing to sign up for. WHAT YOU CAN SYNC • Folders of documents, PDFs, notes and files of any kind — including Obsidian vaults. • Your photo library: automatically import new and edited photos and videos into a dedicated folder and send them to your NAS or computer. Optionally mirror deletions too. • Synced folders appear in the Files app, ready to open in your other apps. SIMPLE BY DESIGN • Pair a device by scanning a QR code. • Choose send-only, receive-only or two-way sync per folder. • See real-time status: connection, progress and what's out of sync. • Sensible defaults — no fiddly configuration. HONEST ABOUT iOS iOS doesn't allow true always-on background apps. Sync runs while the app is open, plus opportunistic background syncs when the system allows. We tell you this up front instead of pretending otherwise. PRICING Start with a 7-day free trial of everything. Afterwards, 1 regular folder and 1 device keep syncing for free, forever (photo library import requires the unlock). A single one-time purchase removes the limits — no subscription, ever. Family Sharing supported. Your files stay yours. On your devices. Nowhere else.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: TrueNAS Pulse at 5.0 against Sync Anything's 4.5. TrueNAS Pulse also leads on ratings volume (9 vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. TrueNAS Pulse sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Sync Anything sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
TrueNAS Pulse holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 2 respectively.
TrueNAS Pulse ships an update every 9 days, Sync Anything weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TrueNAS Pulse | Sync Anything |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (9 ratings) — better | 4.5 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Christophe Cornelis | 绍龙 朱 |
Customer experience
TrueNAS Pulse
Sync Anything
In-app purchases
TrueNAS Pulse
- TrueNAS Pulse Pro$9.99
Sync Anything
- Full Version (One-Time Purchase)$4.99









