NAS System Manager vs TrueNAS Pulse

The free NAS Manager app is the perfect solution for monitoring and managing your NAS using your mobile device.

Check on your TrueNAS server from anywhere. See pool health, catch alerts, and follow jobs, apps, and VMs from your iPhone, without opening the web UI. Free for up to 2 servers, with no time limit. Pro is a one-time purchase with no subscription. No ads, no tracking. TrueNAS Pulse is a native, independent iPhone app for TrueNAS SCALE 24.04 and later, including TrueNAS 25.10, 26, and the 27.0 release candidate. It is built for sysadmins, operators, and homelab users. The free tier is useful forever: live monitoring, 1-hour history, alerts, storage health, jobs, one local monitor on the active server, widgets, and essential operational visibility. TrueNAS Pulse Pro is a one-time purchase that unlocks deeper reporting, unlimited monitors, fleet visibility, and the full guarded operator toolset. All high-risk actions require explicit confirmation before anything is changed on the server. FREE - Live dashboard for CPU, memory, network, and storage status - 1-hour reporting history for CPU, memory, and network - ZFS pool health, disks, temperatures, datasets, and snapshots - Recovery Readiness diagnostics for dataset snapshot coverage and task health - Alerts, jobs, services, apps, and VM status for triage - Dismiss and acknowledge alerts to keep the signal clean - Create ZFS snapshots on demand - Start, stop, and force-stop native containers on supported TrueNAS 26/27 releases - One local monitor on the active server - Network interface status and routing overview - Read-only file browser and audit log viewer - Up to 2 servers with fast server switching - Home Screen widget for glanceable server health TRUENAS PULSE PRO - Unlimited monitors across your servers - Historical reporting graphs with 6H, 24H, 7D, and 30D views - Storage runway with per-pool fill-rate trends and projected days remaining - Fleet view and server comparison - Protection Audit for SMB/NFS shares, iSCSI zvols, and native-container datasets, with fleet recovery trends and monitor recommendations - Configuration drift comparison - Live log streaming - Disk and VDEV management - Snapshot delete, clone, and rollback tools - Guarded service, app, and VM lifecycle controls - Network editing, share management, and service configuration tools - Data protection controls, batch actions, job abort, and system update installation - Reboot, shutdown, support bundle generation, config backup export, and config restore - Server Console access on supported TrueNAS SCALE releases - Live Activities for scrubs, replications, and updates on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island - Opt-in iCloud sync for your server list, monitor configurations, and app settings - Up to 8 servers SECURITY - API tokens are stored in iOS Keychain and never synced to iCloud - Strict TLS validation with optional per-server self-signed certificate trust - No analytics, tracking, advertising SDKs, or external telemetry - Connects directly to your servers; there is no developer-operated relay or cloud service IMPORTANT - Independent third-party app - Not affiliated with or endorsed by iXsystems, Inc. - Requires a self-hosted TrueNAS SCALE server with remote API access enabled Terms of Use: https://truenaspulse.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://truenaspulse.com/privacy