NanoShelf vs DuoCorder+
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NanoShelf
Access and play your personal media library from various servers and local folders. Browse movies, series, and music with touch-friendly views and advanced playback options. Manage your media and continue watching or listening across devices.
- Connect to Emby, Jellyfin, Plex, and OpenSubsonic servers
- Browse local folders via Files app
- Continue watching/listening across devices
- Select audio tracks, subtitles, and adjust timing
- Manage music playback queue
- Download for offline playback
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NanoShelf is a video and music player designed for iPhone and iPad. Connect your media servers, NAS, and local folders to browse and play your own library. Explore your media with touch-friendly library and detail views, then continue watching or listening from your device. SUPPORTED SOURCES Connect to Emby, Jellyfin, Plex, and compatible OpenSubsonic music servers. Browse network files over WebDAV, SMB, NFS, and SFTP, or select accessible local folders using the system Files picker. FEATURES • Browse movies, series, music, and supported media files • Continue watching, browse seasons and episodes, and play the next episode in supported server queues • Search, sort, and filter according to the source's capabilities • Choose available audio tracks, subtitles, and file versions; adjust subtitle timing in supported players • Browse music albums and tracks, manage the playback queue, and use shuffle or repeat • Access authorized folders with the system file picker • Manage downloads and offline playback for authorized Emby or Jellyfin items that offer an accessible original file REQUIREMENTS Server connections require an accessible compatible service and any necessary account. Network directories and local folders require appropriate access permissions. Features depend on the source configuration, account permissions, media, device, and network. Access to cloud files through Files also depends on the file provider's availability and permissions. Media-server playback progress is reported according to the service's capabilities. Playback progress and watched status for file-based sources are saved on this device. NanoShelf is playback software, not a content service. It does not provide, host, sell, share, or distribute movies, TV shows, music, or other media, and does not include a public media catalog. You supply your media sources and any required accounts. Only access and play content you have the legal right to use. NanoShelf is an independently developed client, not an official app of Emby, Jellyfin, Plex, or any connected service. These services do not endorse NanoShelf.
DuoCorder+
Transform your iPhone into a handheld sensor scanner. Explore environmental data like sound, air pressure, and magnetic fields with a retro-futuristic interface. Set custom alerts and track 24-hour trends for your sensor readings.
- Live sensor scanning
- Retro-futuristic display
- Customizable alerts
- 24-hour trend charts
- Metal detector mode
- Data export (CSV)
- Privacy-focused design
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DuoCorder turns your iPhone into a handheld sensor scanner. See what your phone can sense about the world around you, live, on one retro-futuristic display. ONE-TAP FULL SCAN Press SCAN and DuoCorder samples every sensor for ten seconds, then explains what it found in plain language: "No magnetic anomalies", "Air pressure falling", "Conversation-level sound". Save the report or share it. MORE THAN A DOZEN LIVE INSTRUMENTS • Motion: acceleration, rotation, tilt and a bubble level • Compass: true and magnetic heading, 3-axis magnetic field strength • Air pressure: barometer, sea-level pressure, altitude change, pressure trend (iPhones with a barometer) • Light: ambient light level estimated from the camera's exposure • Sound: level in decibels, a live spectrum, and a scrolling spectrogram • Pitch: names the strongest note you hear, with how sharp or flat it is • Position: coordinates, speed, course, accuracy and the nearest place name • Activity: steps, distance, floors climbed, cadence and pace • Bluetooth radar: nearby devices, signal strength and a rough range estimate • Your phone: battery, CPU, memory, storage, temperature and network METAL DETECTOR MODE Sweep the phone slowly and listen. The tone rises in pitch and the haptic ticks speed up as the magnetic field changes near metal. YOUR OWN ALERTS Create rules such as "pressure falling faster than 2 hPa/hour", "magnetic field above 70 µT" or "battery below 20%". DuoCorder chirps, buzzes and flashes the screen when one triggers, and keeps a history of recent alerts. Alerts work while the app is open. 24-HOUR TRENDS DuoCorder records your readings while it is open and keeps the last 24 hours. Chart any sensor over 5 minutes to a full day, drag to inspect values, and see your alert thresholds on the chart. SNAPSHOTS AND SHARING Save a snapshot of any page, with your location, then browse your log or export everything as a CSV file. Share a full readable report in one tap. EASY TO LEARN Tap any reading to see what it means, view its trend or set an alert. A quick guide explains the controls, and every button is clearly labelled. BUILT FOR BIG AND FOLDABLE SCREENS The layout fills iPhone, iPad and wide two-panel displays, with the display on top and the keys below. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything stays on your device. There are no accounts, no ads, no analytics and no tracking. The microphone, camera and Bluetooth run only while the page or scan that needs them is open. Sound is analysed live and never recorded. The camera is used only for its light reading, and no photos or video are saved. GOOD TO KNOW Readings come from your phone's built-in sensors and are approximate. Which sensors you see depends on your device; for example, the barometer is not in every iPhone. DuoCorder is for curiosity and learning, not for medical, safety, navigation or professional use.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: DuoCorder+ at $2.99 against NanoShelf's $9.99. DuoCorder+ also leads on chart position (#96 vs unranked). NanoShelf's advantage is device support (4 vs 2). On rating, ratings volume, 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
NanoShelf costs $9.99 and DuoCorder+ $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for NanoShelf against 5.0 for DuoCorder+. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
| Parameter | NanoShelf | DuoCorder+ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.99 | $2.99 — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #96 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 77 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 恒俭 董 | James Roche |
Customer experience
NanoShelf
DuoCorder+
In-app purchases
NanoShelf
No in-app purchases
DuoCorder+
No in-app purchases





