Integration between iOS devices and Arduino has never been so easy. No registration, no cloud. Everything under your control.
Supported Boards: UNO R4 WiFi, UNO R3, Nano, MEGA2560, ESP32, ESP8622, Zero, MKR1000, Nano 33 IoT, Teensy e nRF52 BLE, Raspberry Pico Pi W (also using SDK). ESP32, Raspberry Pico and Pico W with MicroPython.
Arduino Manager is an app to control the Arduino board and receive information from it through:
- Ethernet Shield (arduino.cc)
- HM-10 / HM19
- Adafruit
* WINC1500 WiFi
* CC3000 WiFi
* nRF52 BLE
* nRF8001 Bluefruit LE
* LE SPI Friend
The app shows a grid and tapping on it you can insert specialized widgets to send and receive information from Arduino. For a better visualization or control, each widget can be zoomed by the means of a double tap on it;
tap on Configure for configuring the widget itself.
Some widgets are:
- Display Widget: shows values coming from your Arduino (i.e. Temperature). It can show numbers with 0,1,2,3 decimal digits or rolling text
- LED Widget: shows a LED that can be turned on and off through digital values from Arduino
- Switch Widget: sets a digital value to Arduino
- Switch & LED Widget: a combination of the two previous widgets to save space when they are used together with the same variable
- Push Button Widget: temporarily sets a digital value to Arduino
- Knob Widget: sets a non-digital value to Arduino
- SD Widget: shows the list of files in the root of SD Card and selecting a file it shows the content
- Graph Widget: graphs values in (almost) real time coming from your Arduino (e.g. instantaneous temperature)
- Logged Data Graph Widget: graphs up to 5 values logged onto the SD Card attached to Arduino. Libraries have helping functions to log data onto the SD Card
- Alarm Widget: configures an alarm on the Arduino board which is then fired at the desired time. The alarm is fired even if the iOS device is not connected and retained across power off - power on cycles
- Command Widget: allows to send a command (text message) to Arduino once the yellow button is tapped. You can add more Command Widgets to send different commands
- Rover Controller Widget: allows driving a rover robot just rotating the device
- Sound Alarm Widget: sounds an alarm each time the associated condition is verified
- Threshold Widget: allows setting a threshold to the Arduino board (e.g. the room temperature under which the board has to start an heater)
- Console Widget: helps the user to debug the Arduino code, receiving and displaying debugging messages
Other widgets are available, please see support site.
Each widget is associated with a name and a variable (i.e. name: Temperature, variable: T). The variable is either written or read by the sketch running on the board allowing the iOS app receiving information from Arduino or controlling it.
The app can be easily connected to more boards, each page of widgets can connects to a different board at the same time.
User can easily manage different lists of widgets and switch among them in order to control different projects.
Any widget list can be shared between own devices via iCloud and/or other users via an email message.
Many Arduino libraries are available to easily integrate your own projects with Arduino Manager. Libraries, related documentation, demo sketches and a video tutorial are available
for free from my site.
Available In-App purchases:
- Code Generator: allows to generate the communication infrastructure between the Arduino board and iOS device and the code for each chosen widget in order to simplify the programming effort
on Arduino board.
- PIN Code Generator: allows the user to associate a pin to each Widget and generate the code to manage that pin. In most cases this avoid writing any code
- Voice Commands: You can now control most of the AM features by mean of voice commands (in English only). It also unlocks Voice Commands Widget
Continuous use of background location can decrease battery life.
I have had this app for months and it had been working flawlessly. When the latest version was released, the app no longer functions. As soon as the app is done opening, everything freezes. I can't open the menu, push any buttons, or even swipe left or right. I'm going to try and return to the old version tomorrow. Hopefully they can get these issues resolved.
How do you use app
Johnger1234
Ipad app don't usually come with an instructional manual. Because with ios you don't need one. All this app does it show cme a bunch of blank squares. I can't do anything.
Not working with Voiceover
JIP613
Hello fellow Arduino enthusiasts,I read many good reviews about the Arduino Manager and I believe it is one of the most interesting and vversatile Arduino APPs out there.Unfortunately I can’t tell how great it is because it doesn’t work for me.I’m blind so I need to use Voiceover to do anything on the iPhone.I purchased the App almost two years ago and have not had the enjoyable experience some of you may have had.The App has very limited accessability with Voiceover, key features like Add, Delete or Move wigits can only be accessed by a sighted person. When I contacted Fabrizio first time, he was very responsive and promised to fix the Voiceover compatibility issue.That was almost two years ago and nothing got fixed.Since then I contacted Fabrizio several times, but he doesn’t even have the courtesy to respond ,as if the problem doesn’t exist or perhaps hoping that it will go away.In my opinion the changes I’m asking for are easy to implement, but perhaps Fabrizio has no desire nor he feels that he has any moral obligation to do so.It may sound that I’m judging based on a very subjective or narrow perspective and some of you may not agree with me.But I’m speaking for all the disabled people out there who for no fault of their own have to put up with all sorts of restrictions every day.We are not asking for much, we just want to be treated with the same respect as evrYbody elseSo based on my personal experience, I have no choice but to rate this App in very unfavorable terms.JP
Developer Response
In these years we have received some few requests about improving the app for vision impaired people. To all these people we answered that unfortunately, when the app was designed the first time we were not very much aware that they could take advantage of it and we did't considered Voice-over as an option. Following these requests, we spent some time to understand how to introduce Voice-Over but unfortunately it is not so easy at this development phase and requires major GUI reworking that we cannot face because a very very small niche market. It's sad, but it's true.
Beer Brewing Controller
Johncvan
This app is just what I need for my arduino beer brewing temperature controller. I am replacing the keypad and LCD display with the Ipad. This app works great. A promised future update will add the ability to name commands separately and that will really complete this app. I installed the latest firmware on the Arduino WiFi shield and that solved a problem with random disconnects. So I have everything working except the temperature set point input. I am waiting for the Cmd upgrade for that.John
- Projects are now sorted immediately after a project has been copied.
- Code Generator:
- Upgraded the Pico SDK to version 2.3.0.
- Display Widget: Variables associated with a Display Widget configured with 0 digits are now generated as integers instead of floats.
- Fixed an issue on iPhone that caused the selected widget list to be duplicated instead of imported.
Version 24.5.0
The developer, Fabrizio Boco, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Accessibility
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Information
Seller
Fabrizio Boco
Size
31.2 MB
Category
Productivity
Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 26.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 26.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
Apple Vision Requires visionOS 26.0 or later.
Apple TV Requires tvOS 9.0 or later.
Apple Watch Requires watchOS 10.5 or later.
Location
This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease device battery life.
