NAO Logger vs Bitaxe Baller
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NAO Logger
This app enables indoor location setup using Bluetooth beacons and advanced sensors. It allows users to track their location with bearing and accuracy on a map. Requires a free Pole Star partner account to use.
- Indoor location setup
- Bluetooth Low Energy beacons
- Advanced sensors fusion
- Real-time location tracking
- Bearing and accuracy display
- Map visualization
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Set up Indoor Location at your place with NAO Logger within minutes! Make NAO learn, then enjoy your location, watching it move as you go, with bearing and accuracy halo on the map! Delivered by Pole Star, NAO Logger includes NAO SDK, the best-in-class indoor location solution. NAO Logger allows you to use the iOS flavor of NAO Campus, based on Bluetooth Low Energy beacons + advanced sensors fusion. This proven solution has been in use on actual sites since July 2012. To use NAO Logger, you need a (free) Pole Star partner account. Background Disclaimer: "Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life." Notes: - The NAO Logger terms of service (https://www.nao-cloud.com/TermsOfService.pdf) and privacy policy (https://www.nao-cloud.com/PrivacyPolicy.pdf) are available from our website. - For any technical question, comments, suggestions or bug reports, please contact our support team at support-naocloud@polestarusa.com - Compatible Bluetooth Low Energy beacons are sold by Pole Star separately. For more information, please contact us on sales@polestarusa.com
Bitaxe Baller
This companion app provides a live, remote view of your Bitcoin miners. It requires a separate desktop application to be installed and configured first. Monitor hashrate, power draw, efficiency, and device-specific metrics securely from your phone.
- Live fleet view
- Per-device drill-down
- Severity-colored device cards
- Pool and stratum readout
- Recent events log
- Biometric unlock
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IMPORTANT — Bitaxe Baller for iOS is a companion viewer for the Bitaxe Baller desktop application. It does NOT work as a standalone tool. You need to install Bitaxe Baller on your home Mac, Windows PC, or Umbrel server FIRST (free download at bitaxeballer.com), add your Bitaxe miners there, enable Remote Access in the desktop's Pro panel, and then pair this iOS app to that desktop install. Without a paired desktop, this app has nothing to show. If you already run the desktop app at home, this companion app brings the live view to your phone. No port forwarding, no VPN, no fixed IP. The desktop app on your home network opens an outbound connection to relay.bitaxeballer.com; the iOS app talks to the same relay and is routed to your devices using your license key as the credential. The relay does dumb routing only — all product logic stays on your local install. WHAT THE APP SHOWS • Live fleet view — total hashrate, total power draw, average efficiency in J/TH, online count. Updates every five seconds. • Per-device drill-down — tap any device card for live metrics, rolling averages (1-minute through 1-hour), recent hashrate chart, ASIC and VR temperature charts. • Severity-colored cards — green for stable, yellow for elevated temps or HW errors climbing, red for critical (overheating, offline, error rate over five percent). • Pool and stratum readout — primary and fallback URLs, suggested difficulty, fallback flag, current pool difficulty. • Recent events — tuning changes, restarts, pool changes. SECURITY • Face ID or Touch ID fires on every cold launch — your license key never sits in a webview-readable place without biometric unlock first. • 24-hour session tokens, signed server-side. Revokable instantly by turning off remote access in the desktop app. • No analytics, no tracking, no third-party SDKs. The app makes exactly three network calls: POST /login at startup with your license key, a WebSocket connection to relay.bitaxeballer.com for routing your data, and the standard system-level calls iOS makes regardless. READ-ONLY COMPANION The iOS app is a read-only viewer. Tuning your miners, scanning your LAN for new devices, and configuring pools all happen on the desktop app. We're a remote-monitoring tool, not a standalone controller. REQUIREMENTS • The Bitaxe Baller desktop application running on your home network (free download — see our website for setup instructions). • One or more Bitaxe Bitcoin miners on the same LAN as the desktop install. • A license key obtained from your desktop install (entered once on first launch; persisted to the device's secure enclave behind biometric unlock). OPEN SOURCE The desktop app and this iOS wrapper are MIT-licensed. The relay protocol is documented in the same repo. If you want to audit the license validation flow or the biometric storage layer, all of it is plain Python and JavaScript on GitHub. Questions? Visit our support site or open a GitHub Issue.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Bitaxe Baller at every 4 days against NAO Logger's every 4 months. NAO Logger's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for NAO Logger against 5.0 for Bitaxe Baller. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
NAO Logger ships an update every 4 months, Bitaxe Baller every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | NAO Logger | Bitaxe Baller |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pole Star SA | Nathan Baldwin |
Customer experience
NAO Logger
Bitaxe Baller
In-app purchases
NAO Logger
No in-app purchases
Bitaxe Baller
No in-app purchases









