Comparison

Hashglow vs Mining Guardian

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

Head to head
About

Hashglow

Features
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Hashglow is a read-only monitor for your solo Bitcoin miners. Watch your whole fleet at a glance โ€” is every rig online, hashing, and cool? โ€” from the couch or from anywhere in the world. READ-ONLY BY DESIGN Hashglow can watch everything and change nothing. It cannot touch your pool, your payout address, your clocks, or your power. A bug in an app can't brick or hijack a miner it was never able to control. That's not a promise โ€” the app has no command to send. WHAT YOU SEE - Fleet view: total hashrate, how many rigs are online, and the hottest one - Per-miner detail: hashrate, ASIC and voltage-regulator temps, power, shares, fan - Best Difficulty, tracked as your all-time high score - A block-lottery bar showing how close your best share is to finding a block FROM ANYWHERE Run the free open-source companion bridge on something always-on at home (a Raspberry Pi, Umbrel, or Mac) and check your fleet over cellular. Everything that leaves your house is encrypted and signed. No account. No sign-up. Nothing phones home. ALERTS AxeOS DOESN'T HAVE Get notified when a rig goes offline, overheats, stalls, or lands a new best difficulty. MAKE IT YOURS Nine looks, from clean minimal to synthwave, terminal green, retro pixel, and steampunk. Great on a phone, an iPad on the wall by your rack, or an Apple TV as an ambient fleet display. WORKS WITH Bitaxe (Ultra, Supra, Gamma, Max), NerdQAxe+/++, and other AxeOS / ESP-Miner devices on your network. Not affiliated with Bitaxe, NerdQAxe, or AxeOS. Don't trust โ€” verify. The app is read-only, account-free, and open source, so you can check every claim yourself.

About

Mining Guardian

Features
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Mining Guardian puts your entire mining operation in your pocket โ€” no laptop in the container, no wifi in the hall, no compromises. Built for owners and operators running a Mining Guardian appliance, the app gives you everything the operations console does, at phone altitude: FLEET HEALTH AT A GLANCE See every miner's status the moment you open the app: online/offline counts, fleet hashrate against maximum, flagged units with plain-English diagnoses, and live curtailment state with the grid price and the system's mining decision. AI DEEP DIVE โ€” YOUR DAILY ANALYST Every day, Mining Guardian's AI reads your whole fleet and writes the analysis a senior technician would: fleet-wide synthesis, cohort comparisons, and per-miner diagnoses that separate a clogged strainer from a failing hashboard. Browse today's report or any day in history, including refinement passes, restart post-analyses, and hourly health. INTELLIGENCE CATALOG A full dossier on every hardware model you run: real specs, firmware history, known issues, market pricing and availability, repair procedures, cooling requirements, and an AI verdict grounded in your fleet's real-world data. APPROVE ACTIONS FROM ANYWHERE When the system wants to restart a hot miner or power-cycle an offline one through your smart PDU, it asks first. Review the evidence, see the confidence score, and approve or deny with a hardware-confirm step โ€” every action audited, executed exactly once. BUILD A SCAN โ€” ASK YOUR FLEET ANYTHING Compose custom scans from a library of checks (thermal, hashrate, cooling, power, availability), point them at the whole facility, one model, or one miner, and let the local AI or Claude write an evidence-grounded answer. AND THE REST OF THE CONSOLE Live activity timeline with job progress, automation-mode switch, scheduled task management with run-now, Grafana dashboard links, full scan history, and secure device pairing. TRY IT RIGHT NOW โ€” NO HARDWARE NEEDED Tap "Try the Demo" on the first screen to explore every feature with a realistic fictional 120-miner hydro site โ€” full fleet data, AI reports, and a working approvals queue. When you're ready for the real thing, pairing with your Mining Guardian appliance takes one code and ten seconds. Mining Guardian requires a Mining Guardian appliance on your site for live operation. Connect over your private network (Tailscale) or from anywhere via secure cloud relay. A Big Star Power product.

Screenshots

Hashglow4 screens
Mining Guardian4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Mining Guardian at none against Hashglow's 1. Mining Guardian also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 3 months). Hashglow's advantage is device support (4 vs 1). On price, ads and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Hashglow sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Mining Guardian asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hashglow ships an update every 3 months, Mining Guardian daily. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 3 level
Hashglow versus Mining Guardian: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHashglowMining Guardian
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsDaily โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size14 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperShane EdwardsRobert Fiesler

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Hashglow

One-time1
  • Hashglow Premium$12.99
None

Mining Guardian

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Hashglow free?
Hashglow is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Mining Guardian free?
Mining Guardian is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Hashglow or Mining Guardian have ads?
Neither Hashglow nor Mining Guardian shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Hashglow or Mining Guardian?
Hashglow ships an update every 3 months, and Mining Guardian daily. Most recently, Hashglow was updated on October 24, 2026 and Mining Guardian on October 15, 2026.

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