Specula vs Nimbus Direct

Specula watches the services you host yourself and tells you at a glance which ones are running, which are struggling and which one just went down. No account, no middleman server, no telemetry: the app queries your machines directly on your network. Your API keys stay on your device. A DASHBOARD, NOT A LIST OF LINKS Every service shows its real metrics, read through its own API: Immich's photo count, AdGuard's blocked queries, your NAS's free space, Proxmox's containers, the volumes filling up. The service type is recognised automatically — Immich, Nextcloud, Home Assistant, Proxmox, OpenMediaVault, UniFi, Portainer, Vaultwarden, Paperless and many more. UP AND RUNNING IN THREE MINUTES Scan your network: Specula finds your services on its own. Or import the services.yaml you already use with Homepage — groups, URLs and widgets carry over as they are. Otherwise, add an address by hand. THE OUTAGES THAT MATTER A service that stops answering after three attempts triggers a notification. The status wall keeps thirty days of history and works out each service's real uptime. Alerts — service offline, disk full, temperature — are enabled one by one, and a volume that is meant to be full is excluded with a single gesture. WHEREVER YOU LOOK iPhone, iPad, Mac, with widgets on the Home Screen and the Lock Screen, a Live Activity during an outage and access from the Mac menu bar. One address per service: the one that answers from your device, whether you go through the local network, a VPN, a reverse proxy or a tunnel. TRY IT BEFORE YOU SET IT UP A complete demo mode, with simulated data, shows you the app working without installing anything. FOUR SERVICES ON THE HOUSE The first four services are free, with no account and no time limit. Beyond that, each slot is bought once and stays yours, and you can also lift the limit permanently in one go and support the project. See the App Store for pricing. Slots you buy follow you from one device to another.

Nimbus Direct puts your virtual servers in your pocket. Connect to your self-hosted Nimbus Direct server and securely manage the virtual machines and containers assigned to your account from your iPhone or iPad. Manage your instances: • View assigned virtual machines and containers • Start, stop, reboot, suspend and resume instances • Monitor CPU, memory, storage and performance history • View network interfaces and IP addresses • Create, restore and delete snapshots • Upload and manage ISO images and boot options Console access anywhere: Access terminal and graphical consoles directly from the app, with controls designed for iPhone and iPad. Stay informed: • Follow running and completed tasks • Receive notifications and maintenance updates • Enable optional push notifications • View infrastructure alerts • Create and manage support tickets Built for security: Nimbus Direct communicates only with the Nimbus Direct server you choose. Your credentials and infrastructure access remain tied to that server. Protect an authenticated session with Face ID, Touch ID or Optic ID, while sensitive credentials are securely handled using the iOS Keychain. Made for self-hosting: Nimbus Direct does not depend on a centralized account or infrastructure service. Connect to an installation operated by you or your service provider. A compatible Nimbus Direct server and an existing user account are required. Accounts are created and managed by the operator of the connected server; account registration is therefore not available within the app.