MineTime vs SoloOps
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MineTime
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MineTime is a Minecraft parental control app for parents who want real Minecraft screen time controls on Mac. Use the iPhone or iPad app as your parent dashboard to manage your child’s Mac, set Minecraft time limits, schedule downtime, give bonus time, and block Minecraft on Mac when needed. MineTime is built for Minecraft Java Edition on macOS. It helps families manage Minecraft playtime with simple parental controls designed specifically for parents who need a practical way to limit Minecraft on Mac. With MineTime you can: • Set daily Minecraft time limits • Create different limits for each day of the week • Block Minecraft completely on your child’s Mac • Schedule downtime hours • Add bonus time in one tap • Check today’s playtime • Manage multiple child devices • Pair a child’s Mac with a simple code • Protect parent settings with a PIN How MineTime works: 1. Install MineTime on your child’s Mac (download it from our web-site https://minetime.app 2. Sign in to the mobile app with your parent account. 3. Pair the Mac using the code shown in MineTime. 4. Set Minecraft parental controls from your phone. Once paired, MineTime lets you manage Minecraft screen time from anywhere. Update time limits, change downtime, add extra time for rewards or weekends, and manage each child separately from one parent account. MineTime is especially useful for parents looking for: • Minecraft parental control • Minecraft screen time • Minecraft time limits • How to block Minecraft on Mac • Minecraft Java Edition parental controls • Mac parental controls for Minecraft Important: • MineTime is for Minecraft Java Edition on macOS. • The mobile app is the parent console. Limit enforcement happens through the MineTime app installed on the child’s Mac. • Requires MineTime on the child’s Mac running macOS 12 or later. MineTime is an independent app and is not affiliated with Mojang or Microsoft.
SoloOps
Monitor your home cryptocurrency mining hardware and solo-miner setups. Get a fleet overview with hashrate charts, active miners, power consumption, and cost estimates. Compare new devices with detailed hardware data and setup context.
- Live fleet dashboard
- Hashrate chart timeframes
- Active miner monitoring
- Power and cost estimates
- Hardware comparison data
- Miner reboot and tuning controls
- Pool and coin odds calculation
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SoloOps is a local-first companion for home mining hardware and solo-miner setups. Discover and monitor supported miners on your own Wi-Fi or LAN, understand fleet health at a glance, and manage compatible hardware without turning your phone into a miner, exchange, or cloud-mining service. Open SoloOps to a live fleet dashboard with hashrate chart timeframes, active miners, best difficulty, best share this session, power, monthly cost estimates, per-coin monthly odds, and needs-attention alerts. Miner names, hashrate, and best difficulty are shown in compact rows built for quick scanning. The Devices screen brings live hashrate, error rate, ASIC and VR temperatures, fans, efficiency, best/session difficulty, estimated electricity cost, and monthly odds into compact, readable rows. Tap a miner for a detailed chart and controls that appear only when its firmware reports support for them. Add Miner can scan up to 254 addresses on your local network or connect directly to a private IP address. Native HTTP and TCP bridges help identify supported AxeOS/Bitaxe, NerdAxe, Harlo Labs OS, Hammer, Canaan/Avalon, Antminer/cgminer-style, Braiins OS, LuxOS, Bitdsk, FutureBit, Lucky Miner, and NMMiner devices. Exact telemetry and controls depend on model, firmware, and local API availability. The dedicated Solo Pool tab can monitor a user-operated local Stratum OS or Umbrel solo-pool endpoint. SoloOps can recognize private pool addresses reported by connected miners, bundle miners sharing the same IP and Stratum port, and offer a one-tap way to add that endpoint to the local dashboard. Users remain responsible for choosing, configuring, securing, and operating their pool. SoloOps Pro adds room to grow your fleet and organize a more serious home mining setup. The app loads each plan's current localized price directly from Apple StoreKit and Apple confirms that price before checkout. Monthly and yearly plans auto-renew until cancelled; Lifetime Pro is a one-time purchase. SoloOps is built around safety and trust: - No phone mining. - No hidden mining. - No private key or seed phrase collection. - No custody of funds. - Read-only miner monitoring by default. - Advanced miner controls require supported firmware and explicit confirmation. Mining rewards are not guaranteed. SoloOps may show odds and cost estimates for education and planning only. It is not financial advice and does not promise earnings, payouts, profit, or block wins. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://getsoloops.com/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: MineTime at none against SoloOps's 3. SoloOps's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs every 5 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. SoloOps sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. MineTime asks for nothing beyond the download.
MineTime ships an update every 5 weeks, SoloOps every 10 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | MineTime | SoloOps |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 3.7 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Natalia Shuvaeva | JESSE CHRISTIAN COX |
In-app purchases
MineTime
No in-app purchases
SoloOps
- Monthly Pro$2.991 Month
- Yearly Pro$26.991 Year
- Lifetime Pro$49.99









