Bitaxe Baller vs LumiHash
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bitaxe Baller
This companion app provides a live, remote view of your Bitcoin miners. It requires a separate desktop application to be installed and configured first. Monitor hashrate, power draw, efficiency, and device-specific metrics securely from your phone.
- Live fleet view
- Per-device drill-down
- Severity-colored device cards
- Pool and stratum readout
- Recent events log
- Biometric unlock
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IMPORTANT — Bitaxe Baller for iOS is a companion viewer for the Bitaxe Baller desktop application. It does NOT work as a standalone tool. You need to install Bitaxe Baller on your home Mac, Windows PC, or Umbrel server FIRST (free download at bitaxeballer.com), add your Bitaxe miners there, enable Remote Access in the desktop's Pro panel, and then pair this iOS app to that desktop install. Without a paired desktop, this app has nothing to show. If you already run the desktop app at home, this companion app brings the live view to your phone. No port forwarding, no VPN, no fixed IP. The desktop app on your home network opens an outbound connection to relay.bitaxeballer.com; the iOS app talks to the same relay and is routed to your devices using your license key as the credential. The relay does dumb routing only — all product logic stays on your local install. WHAT THE APP SHOWS • Live fleet view — total hashrate, total power draw, average efficiency in J/TH, online count. Updates every five seconds. • Per-device drill-down — tap any device card for live metrics, rolling averages (1-minute through 1-hour), recent hashrate chart, ASIC and VR temperature charts. • Severity-colored cards — green for stable, yellow for elevated temps or HW errors climbing, red for critical (overheating, offline, error rate over five percent). • Pool and stratum readout — primary and fallback URLs, suggested difficulty, fallback flag, current pool difficulty. • Recent events — tuning changes, restarts, pool changes. SECURITY • Face ID or Touch ID fires on every cold launch — your license key never sits in a webview-readable place without biometric unlock first. • 24-hour session tokens, signed server-side. Revokable instantly by turning off remote access in the desktop app. • No analytics, no tracking, no third-party SDKs. The app makes exactly three network calls: POST /login at startup with your license key, a WebSocket connection to relay.bitaxeballer.com for routing your data, and the standard system-level calls iOS makes regardless. READ-ONLY COMPANION The iOS app is a read-only viewer. Tuning your miners, scanning your LAN for new devices, and configuring pools all happen on the desktop app. We're a remote-monitoring tool, not a standalone controller. REQUIREMENTS • The Bitaxe Baller desktop application running on your home network (free download — see our website for setup instructions). • One or more Bitaxe Bitcoin miners on the same LAN as the desktop install. • A license key obtained from your desktop install (entered once on first launch; persisted to the device's secure enclave behind biometric unlock). OPEN SOURCE The desktop app and this iOS wrapper are MIT-licensed. The relay protocol is documented in the same repo. If you want to audit the license validation flow or the biometric storage layer, all of it is plain Python and JavaScript on GitHub. Questions? Visit our support site or open a GitHub Issue.
LumiHash
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LumiHash — watch your hosted Bitcoin miner, live. LumiHash runs dedicated Bitcoin mining hardware for you. Rent a real, open-source Bitaxe miner at lumihash.com — hosted and operated 24/7 in our facility — and this app is where you watch your exact machine in real time. Every block reward is paid by the pool straight to your own wallet. Non-custodial: we never hold your Bitcoin. Your miner, in your pocket • Live telemetry — hashrate, temperature, power draw and efficiency for your hosted miner, refreshed automatically • Direct-to-wallet payouts — track your payout address balance, recent rewards and the live BTC price • Fleet overview — running more than one? See total hashrate and power across every miner at a glance • Hashrate history — built-in trend charts show your machine running around the clock • Uptime alerts — get notified the moment a miner goes offline or a block is found • Home Screen widget — total hashrate and payout balance without opening the app Why hosted? We handle the networking, cooling, monitoring and 24/7 uptime in a proper facility — a reliably running miner with none of the noise, heat or setup at home. Flat monthly fee, keep 95% of every block (only a transparent 5% pool fee), cancel any time after the 3-month minimum term. Already run your own Bitaxe? LumiHash also monitors miners on your own network directly over the local AxeOS API — with manual tuning, presets and Auto-Tune, no account required. Start mining at lumihash.com. Not affiliated with the Bitaxe open-source project. Bitaxe is an open-source hardware design; LumiHash is an independent hosting service and monitoring app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bitaxe Baller at none against LumiHash's 1. Bitaxe Baller also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. LumiHash sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Bitaxe Baller asks for nothing beyond the download.
Bitaxe Baller ships an update every 4 days, LumiHash weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bitaxe Baller | LumiHash |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 55 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nathan Baldwin | Cryptron UG (haftungsbeschränkt) |
In-app purchases
Bitaxe Baller
No in-app purchases
LumiHash
- LumiHash Pro$2.99









