Comparison

HomeLab Watcher vs Interview

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

Head to head
About

HomeLab Watcher

Monitor the health of your homelab resources with a private, one-glance dashboard. View HTTP services, Beszel machines, and Proxmox VE nodes, with customizable widgets for your home and lock screens. All data and configuration remain on your device.

Highlights
  • Unified dashboard for HTTP, Beszel, and Proxmox VE
  • Real-time status and observation age
  • Home Screen, Lock Screen, and interactive widgets
  • Direct refresh from iPhone
  • Private by design: no accounts, cloud, or analytics
  • Read-only status checks
Features
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HomeLab Watcher gives you one calm, private glance at the latest known health of the homelab resources you care about. ONE HONEST DASHBOARD • See HTTP services, Beszel machines, and Proxmox VE nodes together • Separate the last successful observation from the latest refresh attempt • Recognize healthy, attention, unhealthy, unknown, aging, and stale states • Refresh all resources or one system directly from your iPhone USEFUL WIDGETS • Small Home Screen status widget • Medium resource overview • Lock Screen status • Interactive refresh without automatically opening the app • Explicit observation age because iOS controls background timing PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No HomeLab Watcher account • No cloud relay or hosted backend • No analytics, ads, tracking, or remote logs • Configuration stays on device • Credentials stay in Apple Keychain • Requests go directly to systems you configure READ ONLY HomeLab Watcher checks status and metrics. It does not start, stop, restart, delete, update, or otherwise administer your infrastructure. TRY BEFORE YOU BUY Sample Lab demonstrates every important presentation state without credentials or a reachable homelab. The free app also supports two HTTP or HTTPS resources and the small widget. LIFETIME UNLOCK A one-time purchase unlocks unlimited resources, Beszel, Proxmox VE, and every widget family. There is no subscription. SUPPORTED CONNECTIONS HomeLab Watcher works with addresses reachable from your iPhone over LAN, an existing private network route, or public HTTPS. iOS system certificate trust is required; the app never bypasses TLS security. HomeLab Watcher is not affiliated with or endorsed by Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH or the Beszel project.

About

Interview

Record conversations and receive accurate, speaker-identified transcripts directly on your device. This app prioritizes privacy by processing all data locally, ensuring your sensitive discussions remain confidential. Share transcripts in various formats when you're ready.

Highlights
  • On-device recording and transcription
  • Speaker identification and labeling
  • Privacy-focused, no cloud processing
  • Multiple export formats (text, Markdown, Word, PDF)
  • Import existing audio/video files
  • Multi-language support
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Record the conversation. Get a transcript that says who said what. Nothing ever leaves your phone. Interview is a recorder for conversations that can't leak: client meetings, interviews, research sessions, anything you'd rather keep to yourself. Tap Record, talk, tap Done. Minutes later you have a transcript with every line labeled by the person who said it. All of it happens on your phone. No account, no servers, no upload. The only way an interview leaves your phone is when you share it yourself. KNOWS WHO'S TALKING Interview tells the voices in the room apart and labels every line. Name a speaker once and everything they said is labeled. If it isn't sure, it asks instead of guessing. REMEMBERS THE PEOPLE YOU INTERVIEW Name someone once and Interview recognizes them next time. It learns your own voice during setup, so you're labeled automatically. Remembered voices are yours to delete, any time. SHARE ON YOUR TERMS Send the transcript as text, Markdown, Word or PDF, with or without the audio. Nothing is shared until you choose to. SPEAKS YOUR LANGUAGE Transcribes 33 languages and picks the right one on its own: Arabic, Cantonese, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Mandarin, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese. Some languages need a one-time download from Apple the first time. Titles and summaries come from Apple Intelligence, which writes them in Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Vietnamese. Recordings in other languages still get the full transcript, dated instead of titled. ALREADY HAVE A RECORDING? Import audio or video, or paste a link to an episode or audio file, and get the same transcript. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no sign-in • No servers, no upload • Delete means gone Made for anyone who cares about privacy. Lawyers, journalists and researchers use it, and so can anyone who'd rather keep a conversation their own. Works best on iPhone 12 or later. Titles and summaries need Apple Intelligence.

Screenshots

HomeLab Watcher4 screens
Interview4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: HomeLab Watcher at 5.0 against Interview's 4.6. HomeLab Watcher also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.4). Interview's advantage is ratings volume (16 vs 2). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. HomeLab Watcher sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Interview sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

HomeLab Watcher holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Interview has 16 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HomeLab Watcher ships an update every 5 days, Interview weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
HomeLab Watcher versus Interview: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHomeLab WatcherInterview
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better4.6 (16 ratings)
Positive reviews—71.4% of reviews
Number of ratings216 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.4
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB144 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYANCY SHEPHERDProjek J

In-app purchases

1 purchases

HomeLab Watcher

One-time1
  • HomeLab Watcher Lifetime$4.99
1 purchases

Interview

One-time1
  • Interview Unlock$19.99

Questions

Is HomeLab Watcher free?
HomeLab Watcher is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Interview free?
Interview is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, HomeLab Watcher or Interview?
HomeLab Watcher is rated higher. HomeLab Watcher averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Interview averages 4.6 from 16 ratings.
Do HomeLab Watcher or Interview have ads?
Neither HomeLab Watcher nor Interview shows ads.
Which is updated more often, HomeLab Watcher or Interview?
HomeLab Watcher ships an update every 5 days, and Interview weekly. Most recently, HomeLab Watcher was updated on October 31, 2026 and Interview on November 13, 2026.

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