Comparison

PVE Admin vs ProxDash

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

Head to head
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.

About

ProxDash

Features
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Your whole Proxmox fleet in one place, from your phone. ProxDash connects directly to Proxmox VE clusters and nodes, Proxmox Backup Servers and the Proxmox Datacenter Manager, in any mix, and shows what is going on across all of them: which guests are running, which nodes are busy, what needs attention, and whether last night's backups actually happened. SEE EVERYTHING, FREE • Overview: remotes, nodes, updates waiting and whatever needs a look, on one screen you can rearrange • Guests: every VM and container with CPU, memory, disk and history • Backup coverage: which guests have a recent backup, which backup failed, and which nothing is backing up at all • Schedules: what runs next and how the last run went, with the log a tap away • Storage: usage now and a forecast of when a volume fills • Containers: Portainer stacks and containers, with image updates checked against the registry • Tasks, node health, certificates and package updates across the fleet • Notifications and a home screen badge when something changes while the app is closed • Widgets for the fleet, the next scheduled job and container updates ACT ON IT WITH PROXDASH PRO • Start, stop, shut down and migrate guests; take and roll back snapshots • Scenes: a sequence of steps you run with one tap, and reverse the same way • System updates on a node, with guests moved off first and back afterwards • Redeploy stacks, apply image updates, clean up Docker hosts • Bought once, or by the year PRIVATE BY DESIGN ProxDash talks to your servers and to nothing else. No account, no analytics, no crash reporting. Credentials stay in the device keychain. Face ID locks the app once it can change things. Try the demo fleet before adding a connection: Settings → Demo fleet. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://jwapps.app/proxdash/privacy.html

Screenshots

PVE Admin4 screens
ProxDash4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PVE Admin at none against ProxDash's 2. ProxDash's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs fortnightly) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. ProxDash sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per year. PVE Admin asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PVE Admin ships an update fortnightly, ProxDash every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
PVE Admin versus ProxDash: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPVE AdminProxDash
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerapply IT UG (haftungsbeschraenkt)John Worthington

In-app purchases

None

PVE Admin

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

ProxDash

Subscriptions1
  • ProxDash Pro$4.991 Year
One-time1
  • ProxDash Pro$9.99

Questions

Is PVE Admin free?
PVE Admin is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ProxDash free?
ProxDash is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do PVE Admin or ProxDash have ads?
Neither PVE Admin nor ProxDash shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PVE Admin or ProxDash?
PVE Admin ships an update fortnightly, and ProxDash every 2 days. Most recently, PVE Admin was updated on October 25, 2026 and ProxDash on October 22, 2026.

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