Comparison

mDNS Utility vs Pi Stats Mobile

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

Head to head
About

mDNS Utility

Discover and browse mDNS and Bonjour services on your network. Find devices like printers, servers, and storage, and access their IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Easily copy network addresses and TXT records.

Highlights
  • Discover mDNS and Bonjour services
  • Find network devices (printers, servers)
  • View IPv4 and IPv6 addresses
  • Browse network shares
  • Copy addresses to clipboard
Features
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The mDNS Utility allows you to find all mDNS and Bonjour services and devices on your network. It is useful for discovering and browsing services, finding addresses such as IPv4 and IPv6. Use it to locate printers, servers, networks storage, shares and more. Copy and paste addresses and TXT records to the clipboard to use in other apps.

About

Pi Stats Mobile

Monitor and control your Pi-hole network ad blocker remotely from your iPhone. View detailed statistics and manage your Pi-hole status, with an optional service for even deeper system insights.

Highlights
  • View Pi-hole statistics
  • Enable/disable Pi-holes
  • Pi Monitor for detailed data
  • Import Pi-holes via QR code
  • Open source application
Features
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Pi Stats puts your entire Pi-hole network in your pocket. Monitor, manage, and fine-tune your ad blocking from your iPhone and iPad with a beautifully redesigned interface. Keep an eye on every Pi-hole at a glance, then tap in for the full picture. • See how your Pi-holes are doing and enable or disable blocking in a tap. • Manage multiple Pi-holes from one place. • Detailed stats: a 24-hour query history chart, query types, upstream destinations, and your top domains and clients. • Health monitoring: check your core, web, and FTL versions, see when an update is available, and review or clear diagnostic messages. • Query Log: browse and search your most recent DNS queries. • Powerful list management: allow or block domains (regex supported), block entire services, and update your blocklists and Gravity right from the app. • Pause from anywhere: disable and re-enable blocking from Control Center, with a Live Activity countdown. • Home Screen and Control Center widgets to keep your stats close. • Pi Monitor* support for deeper insight into your Raspberry Pi: temperature, memory usage, uptime, and load average. • Quick setup: import your Pi-holes from Pi Stats for macOS by scanning a QR code. PRIVATE & OPEN SOURCE Pi Stats doesn't track anything you do. It's 100% open source, so you can check out the code via the Support URL. * Pi Monitor is an additional service that needs to be installed on your Raspberry Pi.

Screenshots

mDNS Utility3 screens
Pi Stats Mobile4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Pi Stats Mobile at 83% against mDNS Utility's 17%. Pi Stats Mobile also leads on rating (4.2 vs 1.6). mDNS Utility's advantage is price ($0.99 vs $1.99) and iOS requirement (7.0 vs 26.0). On ratings volume, 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

mDNS Utility costs $0.99 and Pi Stats Mobile $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Pi Stats Mobile holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 1.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 13 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 17% of mDNS Utility's written reviews are positive against 83% of Pi Stats Mobile's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

mDNS Utility ships an update fortnightly, Pi Stats Mobile every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
mDNS Utility versus Pi Stats Mobile: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametermDNS UtilityPi Stats Mobile
Price$0.99 — better$1.99
Rating1.6 (5 ratings)4.2 (13 ratings) — better
Positive reviews16.7% of reviews83.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings513 — better
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS7.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKenny MillarFernando Bunn

Customer experience

mDNS Utility

All ratings5 ratings
Positive20.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative80.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive16.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative83.3%

Pi Stats Mobile

All ratings13 ratings
Positive84.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative15.4%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%

In-app purchases

None

mDNS Utility

No in-app purchases

None

Pi Stats Mobile

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is mDNS Utility free?
mDNS Utility costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pi Stats Mobile free?
Pi Stats Mobile costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, mDNS Utility or Pi Stats Mobile?
Pi Stats Mobile is rated higher. mDNS Utility averages 1.6 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Pi Stats Mobile averages 4.2 from 13 ratings.
Do mDNS Utility or Pi Stats Mobile have ads?
Neither mDNS Utility nor Pi Stats Mobile shows ads.
Which is updated more often, mDNS Utility or Pi Stats Mobile?
mDNS Utility ships an update fortnightly, and Pi Stats Mobile every 3 weeks. Most recently, mDNS Utility was updated on November 1, 2026 and Pi Stats Mobile on November 3, 2026.

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