Pling vs Pilvi for Cloudflare
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
Pling
This app provides a powerful SSH client and push notification platform for managing servers on mobile devices. It offers a full terminal experience, AI command generation, server monitoring, and SFTP file management. Users can also triage notifications and check host status from their Apple Watch.
- Full SSH and Mosh terminal emulation
- Push notifications for server events
- AI-powered command generation
- Real-time server monitoring
- SFTP file manager
- Customizable terminal themes
- Split-pane terminals on iPad
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Your servers, in your pocket. Pling is the most powerful SSH client and push notification platform for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. Spin up a terminal in seconds, or say what you want done and let Pling run the session. MADE FOR iPHONE DUO Unfold for a bigger terminal: run two sessions side by side or stacked, drag the divider to resize, and switch panes from the keyboard. Split view works on iPad too. COMMAND AGENT Describe a task in plain English and Pling runs the SSH session for you: planning, dispatching, reading output, and adjusting as it goes. It asks on real decisions and stops before anything destructive. Launch it from the new Spotlight launcher or any terminal. SSH & TERMINAL A real terminal: full ANSI color, true emulation, and good-looking themes. Connect with SSH or Mosh. Mosh keeps sessions alive through subway tunnels and cellular handoffs. Jump hosts, SSH config import, and live port forwarding you can edit mid-session. Plus CRT mode, keyboard reordering, and saved snippets. REMOTE DESKTOP Stream and control a host's full graphical desktop in-app over hardware-accelerated H.264. Move the pointer, type on-screen, pinch to zoom, and tune resolution, frame rate, and bitrate. PUSH NOTIFICATIONS Hook up servers, scripts, and CI with one HTTP request. Custom channels, low-to-critical priorities, and action URLs to a runbook. End-to-end encrypted, delivered even when Pling is closed. AI COMMANDS & VOICE Forget a flag? Generate commands with AI tuned to your setup, or speak them on-device with Whisper or Apple Speech. Add photos or files for context. SERVER MONITORING Watch CPU, memory, disk, network, and uptime live via our agent or over SSH. Set thresholds and get pushed the moment a box runs hot. SFTP FILE MANAGER Browse, upload, download, and edit remote files natively. Preview images, PDFs, and docs. Search the directory and multi-select for bulk delete or downloads. WAKE ON LAN Power on a sleeping machine remotely. Pling sends the magic packet directly or via another host, with live status until it wakes. SESSIONS & HOSTS Every host card shows live reachability, plus a badge when the Pling agent is installed. Session recording and live sharing to pair in real time. Tap a host with a tmux or zellij session running and Pling jumps back in instead of duplicating it. Save a Workspace; hosts plus their sessions; and restore it on any synced device. Batch commands and schedule recurring jobs 24/7. SECURITY Keys and credentials live in Keychain, behind Face ID or Touch ID, with auto-lock, host verification, and fingerprint management. Optionally sync SSH keys and passwords via your Pling Account, with an audit screen for what syncs and what stays local. YOUR PLING ACCOUNT Sign in with Apple or Google to your own account; link both or merge duplicates. Your hosts, keys, and settings sync across devices, and you can now use Pling on the web. APPLE WATCH, WIDGETS & SIRI Triage notifications, check status, and run commands from your wrist with iPhone nearby; complications show unread counts. Pin hosts to your Home Screen and ask Siri if prod is up. FREE FEATURES ⢠3 concurrent SSH sessions ⢠5 saved hosts ⢠SSH and Mosh connections ⢠SFTP file browsing ⢠8 terminal themes ⢠Voice input ⢠Local network discovery PLING PRO ⢠10 concurrent sessions ⢠Unlimited saved hosts ⢠Push notifications with custom channels ⢠API token for integrations ⢠Unlimited scheduled commands ⢠Unlimited AI command generation and Command Agent ⢠All premium themes and CRT effects ⢠Session sharing ⢠Server monitoring with agent and alerts ⢠Docker container control ⢠Email digests ⢠Critical alerts and notification rules ⢠Workspaces: save and restore host + session bundles ⢠Pling Account sync for hosts, keys, snippets, and workspaces An SSH-accessible server is required for terminal features. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://plingpush.com/privacy.txt
Pilvi for Cloudflare
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Pilvi is a Cloudflare client for iPhone and iPad. Your domains, your traffic, and the things you have deployed ā read properly, on a phone. IT NEVER ASKS FOR AN API TOKEN Pilvi signs in through Cloudflare's own OAuth consent screen and keeps the result in your keychain. There is no server, no account to create, and nothing of yours ever reaches us ā because there is no "us" for it to reach. Sign-in asks for read-only access; it asks for permission to change anything only at the moment you first change something. WHAT IT SHOWS ⢠Domains ā traffic, requests, data, threats and where visitors came from, on a world map ⢠DNS ā every record, with the orange cloud and TTL editable ⢠Email Routing ā rules, destinations, and a switch to turn a rule off ⢠Certificates ā including which of your proxied hostnames a certificate does not cover ⢠Security events ā what Cloudflare's firewall stopped in the last day, and which rule stopped it ⢠Workers ā requests, errors, and what each one is wired to ⢠Pages ā deployments, builds and custom domains ⢠D1, R2, KV and Queues ā what they hold, and how close today is to the free plan's limits ⢠Tunnels ā connectors, the data centres they reach, and what is on the other side ONE PAYMENT ā¬9.99, once, for all of it. Not a subscription. There is no PRO badge anywhere in this app and no feature behind a second purchase ā the whole thing works or none of it does. Try it for fourteen days first. Everything is included in the trial; nothing is crippled while you decide. IT TELLS YOU WHEN IT DOES NOT KNOW Cloudflare answers a permission you did not grant with an empty list rather than an error, which is indistinguishable from an account with nothing in it. Pilvi separates the two everywhere, and ships a Permissions screen so you can see exactly what your authorization covers. Alerts arrive as notifications when iOS wakes the app in the background ā which may be twenty minutes or several hours. That is a real limit and it is stated in the app, not buried here. Pilvi is not a monitoring service, and Cloudflare's own email and webhook alerts remain the right tool for anything urgent. HAVE A LOOK FIRST There is a demo account on the sign-in screen with sample data in it. No Cloudflare account needed to see what the app does. Cloudflare is a registered trademark of Cloudflare, Inc. Pilvi is an independent app and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Cloudflare, Inc.
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Verdict
Pling and Pilvi for Cloudflare are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters ā price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them ā neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Pling sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Pilvi for Cloudflare sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Pling | Pilvi for Cloudflare |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | ā |
| Update frequency | Weekly | ā |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | ā |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch ā better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 ā better | 18.0 |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 86 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Layton Labs AB | Diogo Resende Rainho |
In-app purchases
Pling
- Pling Pro - Monthly$1.991 Month
- Pling Pro - Annual7 Days trial$17.991 Year
- Pling Pro - Lifetime$59.99
Pilvi for Cloudflare
- Unlock Pilvi$8.99
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