Dockhand Mobile vs Mast Pager
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dockhand Mobile
Manage your self-hosted servers on the go with this native client. Monitor container health, manage containers and stacks, and perform essential operations without needing a laptop. It offers detailed insights into server environments and supports multiple server connections.
- Multiple server management
- Environment dashboard
- Container operations
- Live log streaming
- Stack management with editing
- Image inspection and management
- Backup execution and history
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Dockhand Mobile is a native iPhone and iPad client for managing your self-hosted Dockhand servers on the go. Connect to one or more Dockhand instances, switch between environments from the main header and run the daily container operations you need without opening a laptop. FEATURES • Multiple servers, each isolated with its own URL, API token and selected environment • Optional per-server custom HTTP headers for reverse proxies such as Cloudflare Access or Pangolin • Environment dashboard: container health, CPU, memory, images, volumes, networks, stacks and events • Containers: filter, sort, start, stop, restart, pause and unpause • Logs, including live streaming when available • Stacks: view related containers, edit compose and .env files with validation, redeploy with pull, build and force recreate options • Images: inspect details, tags, labels and usage; pull, tag, delete and prune unused images • Backups: run backups, review history and destinations • Container update visibility REQUIREMENTS You need access to your own Dockhand server and an API token. The app does not include any server or hosting service. Dockhand Mobile is an independent, open-source community client. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or maintained by the official Dockhand project. Docker is a trademark of Docker, Inc.
Mast Pager
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Mast turns your iPhone into a pager, for one person who is the whole on-call rotation or a team with one. Pages re-alert until you acknowledge them, and silent cron jobs page you when they stop. Create a channel in the app and it hands you a URL; from then on, anything that can make an HTTP request can page you: a deploy script, a backup job, the error handler in your API. curl -d "disk 92% on db1" https://mast.tissue.dev/mk_9f2a41c8b7 No account, no sign-up: install the app and that is the whole setup. The phone itself is the credential, and the channel address is the only secret. That first rung, Try it out, is two channels, one vital and a thousand messages a month on this phone. An email address gets you Free: five channels, five vitals, five probes and ten thousand messages a month, with a week of history. Solo, Team and Company add more phones, an on-call rotation, escalation to the next person and longer history. They come with a Tissue Mast account on tissue.systems, and the app joins that account. HOW LOUD, CHANNEL BY CHANNEL Every message carries a priority, and the priority is what the notification does to the phone. The default comes from the channel, and so does the ceiling: a sender can name a priority per message but never one above it. - quiet: no sound, no banner. The feed records it and the phone stays dark. - normal: a banner and a sound. The ringer switch, Focus, and the channel's quiet hours all still apply. - loud: time-sensitive, so it breaks through Focus. One alert, no repeat, for problems that need eyes soon but should not wake anyone. - page: the pager tier. It re-alerts every two minutes until you acknowledge it, sounds through the ringer switch on a phone with critical alerts turned on, and a page you have not acknowledged moves on to the one other phone the channel names. THE WATCH BELL A channel can also be a vital: it alerts when the posts stop. Your cron job or backup script checks in on a schedule, and silence past the schedule plus a grace window is what raises the alarm. The next check-in closes the page the silence opened. The feed and a home-screen widget both draw every vital as a dot, late ones marked. WHEN A PAGE GOES UNANSWERED A page breaks through Focus, Sleep included, and sounds through the ringer switch once critical alerts are turned on — one switch in the app, off until you turn it on. It stays on the lock screen and in the Dynamic Island until it is acknowledged. Acknowledge it from the notification, from the app, by asking Siri, from the Action button or a Shortcut. Resolve and Mute channel 1h sit beside Acknowledge on the notification, and none asks for Face ID. Pair with one other person's Mast — a QR code scanned by the other phone — and an unacknowledged page moves on to them. A pause is the only thing that holds a page: name a length, and pages land silently until the window ends and everything unanswered rings at full volume. A STORM IS ONE LINE Send a message with a key and a repeat of that key inside the channel's dedupe window lands once; a channel that floods collapses into one row that counts up in place. A page is never the one folded away, and it ignores mute and quiet hours, so a flapping check cannot bury a real one. EVERY PAGE KEEPS ITS RECORD Each message carries its own log: fired, repeated and how many times, escalated, acknowledged and by which device, resolved. A script holding only the channel address can read back what became of its message, so a deploy can page you and wait for the tap. A monitor that knows the outage is over can close the page it opened. RUNS APART FROM WHAT IT WATCHES A downtime alert that runs on the machine having the downtime dies with it. Mast's server side runs on tissue.systems, in a different failure domain from whatever it is watching. Home Assistant pages you through the hass-mast integration. Mast is for iPhone; pages reach a paired Apple Watch through notification forwarding.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Mast Pager at 17.2 against Dockhand Mobile's 26.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Dockhand Mobile ships an update every 6 days, Mast Pager weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dockhand Mobile | Mast Pager |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.2 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Giovanny Aranda | Tissue Systems |
In-app purchases
Dockhand Mobile
No in-app purchases
Mast Pager
No in-app purchases





