Comparison

Fjord Mobile 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

Fjord Mobile

Manage your self-hosted Git forge from your iPhone or iPad. Review code, triage issues, monitor CI/CD pipelines, and merge changes on the go. Supports direct connection to Forgejo and Gitea instances.

Highlights
  • Pull request review and merging
  • Issue management and commenting
  • CI/CD pipeline monitoring and control
  • Repository and code browsing
  • File editing and committing
  • Home Screen widgets for build status
Features
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Fjord Mobile brings your self-hosted Git forge to iPhone and iPad. Review pull requests, triage issues, watch your CI, and merge, from anywhere. WHAT YOU CAN DO - Review pull requests: conversation, timeline, diffs, changed files, CI status, approve or request changes, and merge. - Open pull requests and create and edit issues. Comment, react, label, assign, and manage reviewers. - Triage your notification inbox, with optional push for your own activity. - Run CI, not just watch it: browse Actions runs across your repositories, read a failed job's log, cancel a run or start one with your own inputs, and download artifacts. - Browse repositories, code, commits, branches, releases, and milestones. Edit a file and commit it to a branch for a quick fix. - Add Home Screen widgets: build status, open PR count, review requests, your contribution graph, and runner queue. SIGN IN - Connect directly to your own self-hosted Forgejo instance with a personal access token, no account required. Tokens are stored only in the device Keychain. - Or sign in with a Fjord account to add push notifications, manage multiple accounts, and switch between your instances and connected forges without signing out. FREE AND MOBILE PRO - Free: connect any Forgejo server, add several servers and accounts, browse, and review, comment on and merge pull requests. Actions and their logs, push notifications, the contribution widget, reading pull requests offline and a few offline reviews are free as well. - Mobile Pro is a one-time purchase. It adds the Review Queue, which walks you through the pull requests waiting on your review one after another, by voice if you like on iOS 26; Needs You, the pull requests waiting on you, on Home, in a widget and when you ask Siri; a review assistant on devices with Apple Intelligence, which sums up what changed since your review and drafts comments without anything leaving the device; and Live Activities for runs. Also included: advanced notification actions, multi-line and block comments, offline review beyond the free allowance, and the iPad review workstation, where you comment and finish reviews with keyboard commands from its Review menu. - Restore Purchases is in Settings. Native on iPhone and iPad. No ads, and no cross-app tracking: nothing is shared with data brokers or used to follow you across apps and sites. Product analytics and crash diagnostics are first-party and can be turned off in Settings. Fjord is a third-party client for self-hosted Git forges. Compatible with Forgejo servers and other compatible installations, including Gitea. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Forgejo, Codeberg, Gitea, or any server operator.

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

Fjord Mobile4 screens
PVE Admin4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Fjord Mobile at 5 against PVE Admin's 1. Fjord Mobile also leads on iOS requirement (17.4 vs 26.0). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Fjord Mobile against 5.0 for PVE Admin. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fjord Mobile has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fjord Mobile ships an update weekly, PVE Admin fortnightly. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Fjord Mobile versus PVE Admin: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFjord MobilePVE Admin
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better1
Update frequencyWeekly — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.4 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size88 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRaster & Stateapply IT UG (haftungsbeschraenkt)

Customer experience

Fjord Mobile

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

PVE Admin

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

In-app purchases

None

Fjord Mobile

No in-app purchases

None

PVE Admin

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Fjord Mobile free?
Fjord Mobile is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PVE Admin free?
PVE Admin is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Fjord Mobile or PVE Admin?
Fjord Mobile and PVE Admin are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 5 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Fjord Mobile or PVE Admin have ads?
Neither Fjord Mobile nor PVE Admin shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Fjord Mobile or PVE Admin?
Fjord Mobile ships an update weekly, and PVE Admin fortnightly. Most recently, Fjord Mobile was updated on October 25, 2026 and PVE Admin on October 25, 2026.

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