Comparison

PIPin vs Pellio

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

Head to head
About

PIPin

Control and view any Mac window directly from your iPhone or iPad. Stream your Mac's screen to your mobile device for remote access, keeping important information visible, or multitasking.

Highlights
  • Remote Mac window control
  • On-screen keyboard with modifiers
  • Real iOS Picture-in-Picture support
  • Local-only Wi-Fi streaming
  • Zero account setup
  • Multiple pinned window grid
Features
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Keep an eye on — and control — any Mac window right from your iPhone or iPad. Pin a window on your Mac with ⌥⇧X and it instantly appears on this app. Watch an AI agent work, keep a doc or dashboard visible while you do something else, or take over and drive your Mac from the couch. You'll need the free PIPin Mac app — get it at pipin.jylljy.top. • Remote control. Tap to click, long‑press to right‑click, two‑finger swipe to scroll. Switch to trackpad mode for relative cursor moves. iPad trackpad and Bluetooth mouse scroll work too. • Type from anywhere. The on‑screen keyboard ships with sticky ⌘ ⌥ ⌃ ⇧ modifiers and arrow / esc / tab / delete keys, so Cmd‑Tab, Cmd‑C, and friends just work. • Real iOS Picture‑in‑Picture. Leave the app and the stream shrinks into a system PIP window that stays on top of anything else you do on iPhone or iPad. • Local‑only. Streams over your Wi‑Fi network via MultipeerConnectivity. Nothing touches the cloud. • Zero account. Open the Mac app, open this app on the same Wi‑Fi, tap your Mac, done. • Multiple PIPs. See every pinned window in a grid, tap to zoom. • Pinch and pan on the detail view; double‑tap to fill the screen.

About

Pellio

Features
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Pellio is your household heating logbook. You log your refills; the app tells you what is left, how long it will last, and what the season is costing you. THE ONE GESTURE, IN FIFTEEN SECONDS Standing at the appliance, a bag in one hand and the phone in the other: one screen, one field, large buttons. Bags adjust by half a bag, the weight appears at once, and the app tells you what will be left afterwards. WHAT THE APP ANSWERS • Remaining stock, in kilos and in bags • Estimated days left: "about 4 weeks", never a false certainty • Your observed rhythm: "refill expected today" • The last fourteen days at a glance — this is where a forgotten entry shows up • An alert when stock drops below a week, and when your week runs well above your habit YOUR PURCHASES, AND WHAT THEY COST Supplier, date, bags, price per kilo including delivery. Pellio works out your average, your cheapest and your dearest buy, and points out your best time to order based on your history. THE APPLIANCE LOGBOOK Details of your stove, insert or boiler: brand, model, warranty, annual service. A record of every job, from sweeping the flue to replacing the glass. And thresholds in kilos — "clean the burn pot every 300 kg" — with how much is left to burn before it falls due. THE SEASON, CLOSED OUT From 1 September to 31 August: fuel burned, cost, bags carried, first and last day of heating. Share the summary as text, or export it to CSV and PDF. NO ACCOUNT, NO NETWORK, NO ADVERTS No sign-up, no email address. Everything works offline: the garage has no signal, and the app does not need one. Your heating records stay on your phone. No adverts, no subscription. WHAT PELLIO DOES NOT DO It measures nothing: no sensor, no tank gauge. It gives back what you declared, and shows an estimate as an estimate. Data can be backed up by export, then imported back on another phone. 27 languages: French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish, Polish, Dutch, Danish, Finnish, Hindi, Arabic, Chinese, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Thai, Turkish, Norwegian, Czech, Romanian, Hungarian, Greek, Ukrainian and Russian. Kilograms or pounds. EUR, USD, GBP, CHF, CAD.

Screenshots

PIPin3 screens
Pellio4 screens

Verdict

The call

PIPin and Pellio are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PIPin ships an update weekly, Pellio every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
PIPin versus Pellio: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPIPinPellio
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.615.5 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB40 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer嘉银 李Patricia JESSE

In-app purchases

None

PIPin

No in-app purchases

None

Pellio

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PIPin free?
PIPin is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pellio free?
Pellio is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do PIPin or Pellio have ads?
Neither PIPin nor Pellio shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PIPin or Pellio?
PIPin ships an update weekly, and Pellio every 4 days. Most recently, PIPin was updated on November 5, 2026 and Pellio on November 10, 2026.

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