AdGuard Home Manager vs ViewPane
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AdGuard Home Manager
Manage your AdGuard Home server remotely from your iPhone or iPad. Access dashboards, query logs, filters, and server settings without needing a browser. Offers optional VIP features for enhanced customization and functionality.
- Remote AdGuard Home server management
- Dashboard and query log access
- Filter and DNS rewrite management
- DHCP settings control
- Home and Lock Screen widgets
- Siri Shortcuts integration
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AdGuard Home Manager is a native iPhone and iPad client for managing your AdGuard Home server. Manage your server without opening a browser: • Dashboard and real-time statistics • Query log search and filtering • Clients, filters, DNS rewrites, upstreams, and access rules • Safe Browsing, Parental Control, and DHCP • Home and Lock Screen widgets, Live Activities, and Control Center controls • Siri Shortcuts, custom theme colors, and CSV export • Multiple server instances This app is a management client that connects directly to your server. DNS filtering is provided by your own AdGuard Home server. AdGuard Home is a trademark of AdGuard Software Ltd. This is an independent third-party client and is not affiliated with or endorsed by AdGuard Software Ltd. Privacy Policy: https://dnshome.ihomei.life/privacy
ViewPane
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ViewPane is the companion app for Frigate NVR — the open-source, self-hosted network video recorder trusted by thousands of self-hosting enthusiasts. Your cameras. Your network. Your phone. NATIVE HEVC LIVE VIEW Tap any camera for a fullscreen live view played as real video with hardware H.265/HEVC decode — full resolution, full frame rate, no server re-encoding. Pinch to zoom, pan while zoomed, rotate for landscape. ALL YOUR CAMERAS IN ONE GRID A clean 2- or 3-column grid with thumbnails you set yourself — capture the exact frame you want for each camera. Live Wall (Pro) turns the grid into an auto-updating multi-camera view with Auto, Large, Medium, or Small tiles, and a long-press pins any camera as the big tile. BROWSE AI-DETECTED EVENTS Scroll events with thumbnails, confidence scores, and zone labels. Filter by camera, detection type (person, car, dog, cat), or time range (Pro). Tap any event for the snapshot and recorded clip. PLAY, SAVE, AND SHARE CLIPS (PRO) Event clips and continuous recordings download to your phone, play smoothly mobile-optimized, and hand off to the system share sheet — save to your files or photos via the share sheet, or send to anyone. GET NOTIFIED (PRO) Motion alerts through your own self-hosted relay container, driven by your MQTT broker. Per-camera schedules, tap an alert to jump to the live view and snooze that camera. No cloud middleman — the relay runs on your hardware. Delivery is best-effort: alerts ride your network and Apple's push service, so treat them as a convenience, not a guarantee. WORKS EVERYWHERE Connect over your local network at home or remotely through Tailscale or a reverse proxy — ViewPane automatically picks the right URL. Sign in with Frigate's own built-in login (0.16+), Basic Auth, or a Bearer Token. The app refuses to send credentials over unsafe public HTTP. PRIVACY FIRST No analytics, no tracking, no accounts, no cloud. Server credentials live in your device's secure keychain. Camera footage flows directly between your phone and your server — we never see it. The only optional external service is push delivery (an anonymous device token; never video or credentials). BUILT FOR FRIGATE USERS Works with Frigate 0.14 or newer (tested on 0.16, 0.17 and 0.18), community or Frigate+. Multi-server support (Pro). Demo mode lets you tour the full app with sample data before touching your config. Built and tested daily on a 10-camera Frigate install. ViewPane is for viewing cameras you own and operate. It is a viewer, not a security or alarm system: it does not monitor anything itself or contact anyone on your behalf, and push notifications are best-effort and can be delayed or dropped by your network or by Apple's and Google's push services. ViewPane is a viewer for cameras you own and operate. It is not a security or alarm system, does not monitor anything on your behalf, and is not a substitute for a monitored service. Free tier: one server, the camera grid, fullscreen native-HEVC live view with pinch-zoom and landscape, the last 20 events, LAN + Tailscale access, and demo mode. ViewPane Pro ($9.99/year — under a dollar a month) adds push notifications, full event history with filters, clip playback and saving, unlimited servers, and Live Wall. ViewPane is not affiliated with the Frigate NVR project. Privacy Policy: https://viewpane.app/privacy · Terms of Use (EULA): https://viewpane.app/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: AdGuard Home Manager at every 8 days against ViewPane's every 3 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. AdGuard Home Manager sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and ViewPane sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $9.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
AdGuard Home Manager ships an update every 8 days, ViewPane every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | AdGuard Home Manager | ViewPane |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 杰 梅 | Kenneth Campbell |
In-app purchases
AdGuard Home Manager
- Small Tip$0.99
- AdGuard Home Manager Lifetime$1.99
- Medium Tip$2.99
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- Large Tip$6.99
ViewPane
- ViewPane Pro$9.991 Year
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