Comparison

Beszel vs PVE Admin

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

Head to head
About

Beszel

Monitor your self-hosted infrastructure directly from your phone. Check server status, resource usage, containers, and alerts with a simple, readable interface. Offers local notifications and home screen widgets for quick access.

Highlights
  • Monitor server status (up, paused, offline)
  • Track CPU, RAM, disk usage, and uptime
  • Inspect containers and resource usage
  • View charts and usage trends
  • Receive local alert notifications
  • Add home screen widgets
  • Demo mode available
Features
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Beszel : Dashboard is a mobile client designed to help you monitor your Beszel infrastructure from your phone. Connect directly to your own Beszel instance and quickly check server status, CPU and memory usage, disk metrics, containers, and important alerts. The app is built for self-hosting users, homelab setups, sysadmins, and devops teams who want a simple and readable mobile monitoring experience. With Beszel : Dashboard, you can: - view the overall health of your infrastructure; - check which servers are up, paused, or offline; - monitor CPU, RAM, disk usage, and uptime; - explore charts and usage trends over time; - open detailed views for each server; - inspect containers and their resource usage; - review additional mounted filesystems; - receive local notifications for important alerts; - try the app in demo mode; - remove ads with a one-time lifetime purchase. - add widgets on your homescreen Privacy matters: - the app does not depend on a central publisher backend; - it only connects to the Beszel instance you provide; - monitoring data comes from your own server; - some technical session data may be stored locally on your device; - Google AdMob and store billing services may be used for monetization. Beszel : Dashboard is ideal when you want quick mobile access to your infrastructure without opening your full monitoring interface every time. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://valemko.app/pages/policy-beszeldashboard

About

PVE Admin

Manage your Proxmox VE cluster from your iPhone or iPad. Monitor nodes, VMs, and containers, access their consoles, and manage backups and storage. Receive push notifications for cluster events.

Highlights
  • Cluster dashboard
  • VM/container management
  • Integrated console
  • Snapshot and backup management
  • Storage browsing
  • Task tracking
  • Push notifications
Features
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PVE Admin puts your Proxmox VE cluster in your pocket. Monitor and manage your nodes, virtual machines, and containers from iPhone and iPad — wherever you are. FEATURES • Dashboard — cluster health at a glance: nodes online, running guests, CPU and memory load. • Virtual machines & containers — start, stop, reboot, shut down, create, clone, migrate, and delete, with live CPU, memory, disk, and network charts. • In-app console — a real terminal to containers and nodes, a graphical console for VMs, no SSH client needed. • Snapshots & backups — create and roll back snapshots, run and schedule backups, and restore. • Live Activities — backup, restore, clone, migrate, and downloads with progress on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. • Widget — nodes, running guests, and load on the Home Screen without opening the app. • Network configuration — edit bridges, VLAN tags, IP, gateway, and firewall per interface. • Node maintenance — check and install available package updates, services, disks with SMART data, and ZFS pools. • System log — follow a node's journal live. • Storage — browse storages, ISOs, templates, disks, and backups; download and clean up. • Tasks — follow cluster tasks with live, streaming logs. • Pending-reboot indicator — see exactly which config changes are waiting for a restart. • Access management — users, groups, roles, permissions, API tokens, realms, and two-factor. • Firewall, resource pools, high availability, and replication. • Push notifications — cluster events by severity, including finished backups and available updates. SECURITY & PRIVACY • Certificate pinning, API-token or ticket login, and TOTP two-factor authentication. • Face ID / Touch ID app lock. • Anonymous, opt-out usage analytics — no account, no tracking. PVE Admin is not affiliated with Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH.

Screenshots

Beszel4 screens
PVE Admin4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PVE Admin at none against Beszel's 2. PVE Admin also leads on ads (none vs shown). Beszel's advantage is iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Beszel sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per year. PVE Admin asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Beszel against 5.0 for PVE Admin. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Beszel ships an update every 10 days, PVE Admin fortnightly. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
Beszel versus PVE Admin: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBeszelPVE Admin
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterFortnightly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTheo Vankoekelbergapply IT UG (haftungsbeschraenkt)

Customer experience

Beszel

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

PVE Admin

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Beszel

Subscriptions1
  • Annuel$3.991 Year
One-time1
  • Premium Lifetime$8.99
None

PVE Admin

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Beszel free?
Beszel is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PVE Admin free?
PVE Admin is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Beszel or PVE Admin?
Beszel and PVE Admin are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Beszel or PVE Admin have ads?
Beszel shows ads; PVE Admin does not.
Which is updated more often, Beszel or PVE Admin?
Beszel ships an update every 10 days, and PVE Admin fortnightly. Most recently, Beszel was updated on October 25, 2026 and PVE Admin on October 25, 2026.

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