Pi-hole Remote 4+

A Remote for Pi-hole

RocketScience IT

    • $3.99
    • Offers In-App Purchases

Description

Pi-hole Remote is a third party Pi-hole application that lets you quickly enable/disable your Pi-hole, as well as add domains to your whitelist/blacklist and view statistics such as top allowed and blocked domains!

*Disable Blocking*
Quickly disable blocking for a few minutes with only a few taps. You can even use Siri Shortcuts to disable blocking with your voice! If you have multiple instances, you can disable blocking for all of them with one tap.

*Statistics & Queries*
Look up what domains are queried most on your network, as well as clients that send out the most requests. See queries sorted by domain, client, or type. You can even view a Live Log that shows requests in real-time!

*Blocked Services*
Want to quickly restrict access to Facebook, YouTube, Snapchat, and more? Block all kinds of services effortlessly with just one tap.

*White & Blacklist*
Quickly add new entries to your lists inside the app or with the iOS Share Extension. You can also add entries in bulk and export list entries. If you have two Pi-hole instances, you can even automatically sync your lists!

*Local DNS*
Manage your Local DNS and CNAME records, right from the app!

*Interactive Widgets & Live Activity*
Choose from a wide range of homescreen and lock screen widgets that show statistics or graphs. There are also interactive widgets to disable blocking without opening the app! When you disable blocking, you will even see a Live Activity on your lock screen and Dynamic Island.

*Full Ecosystem*
Purchase the app once and get access to the iOS, watchOS, iPadOS, macOS, and tvOS app.

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iPhone, iPad, macOS features:
- Disable Pi-hole blocking
- View basic & advanced statistics
- Add domains to your whitelist or blacklist (in bulk)
- One-tap blocking of entire services
- Export your list entries
- Sync list entries between two instances
- Full Query Log with search & filters
- Live Log which shows queries in real-time
- Manage Local DNS & CNAME records
- Support for up to 4 Pi-hole instances with combined statistics and queries
- Support for scanning Pi-hole token QR code
- Support for SSL and reverse proxies
- Interactive widgets & Live Activity
- Siri Shortcuts & Quick Action
- Share Extension for quick white/blacklisting
- VoiceOver support
- FaceID/TouchID lock
- Dark Mode, custom color schemes, alternative app icons
- Optimised design for iPadOS & macOS
- Clean and modern 100% SwiftUI design

Apple Watch features:
- Disable Pi-hole blocking
- Change Blocked Services settings
- View basic statistics
- View top lists
- Complications
- Support for the Smart Stack

Apple TV features:
- View basic statistics
- Disable Pi-hole blocking
- Require Passcode on Disable

Statistics:
- Total Queries
- Queries/Percentage Blocked
- Blocklist + Gravity Last Updated
- Temperature & Memory Usage
- Graph Queries Overtime
- Top Allowed Domains
- Top Blocked Domains
- Top Clients
- Unique Domains/Clients
- Clients Ever Seen
- Queries Per Domain/Client
- Query Types
- Forward Destinations
- Pi-hole Version
- API Info
- DNS Cache
- Database Size

* The in-app-purchases are only there for the Tip Jar, to support future development of the app. This is completely optional.

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Note:
You need at least one working Pi-hole instance running on another device for this app to function and you must use Pi-hole Version 5.17 or up. Find out more about Pi-hole at https://pi-hole.net/.

What’s New

Version 5.2.1

Version 5.2 is here with many new blocked services as well as a very nice improvement to the Live Activity in combination with the interactive widgets.

Have an amazing 2024!
- Joost

* Full Changelog *
New:
- Interactive widgets can now also start a Live Activity when disabling blocking (iOS 17.1+)
- Added over 20 new block-able services like Max, League of Legends, Fifa, AliExpress, betting websites, and more
- Toggling blocked services will now show a progress indicator
Improved:
- Greatly improved blocklists for some services like Instagram, X, Whatsapp, Netflix, Roblox, and more

Note: Please be aware that the app is not compatible with Pi-hole v6 yet. To use the app, do not update to the v6 beta. Support is being developed.

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v5.2.1 fixes an issue in the HBO Max blocklist.

Ratings and Reviews

4.9 out of 5
247 Ratings

247 Ratings

Grgrps ,

Indispensable Utility for Pi-hole. Get it now!

I’ve been tinkering around with a Pi-hole setup, and I kept running into issues with using the web interface on mobile (sporadic Bad Request errors I couldn’t crush) so I decided to check the App Store and came across this infinitely useful Pi-hole Remote App. I didn’t even hesitate purchasing it, it’s well worth the asking price. The UI itself is hands down one of the cleanest I have ever experienced for a technical utility app. It’s easy to navigate and all the critical metrics and statistics information is cleanly and clearly presented and organized. It’s a lot more reliable than using the web interface on mobile and tons of customization and configuration options to tweak to your liking. It’s a highly intuitive layout. I have no problems whatsoever supporting indie devs that make quality apps such as this. Keep up the good work, and I look forward to future updates!

Developer Response ,

Thank you so much! 🤩

Runeko ,

Amazing app, could be excellent

This app is a great way to view and manage your pi-hole. The design choices make everything you need up at the front of the app and it blends in well with iOS. You can view the tail of a particular IP address really easily and the details on each dns request are really helpful, allowing you to easily create blacklists. The widgets are a nice touch. So far, everything I need. There is room for improvement though; this app could be a game-changer. Group management seems to be ignored completely, including adlists. A built in whois lookup or information database about particular domains would be helpful, something similar to Little Snitch. If those changes were made, and a few small app bugs, it would be an excellent app. This is still an amazing app though, and I'm happy I found it; it will be used a lot! Thanks!

Developer Response ,

Thank you for your review! Management of groups and adlists is currently not possible due to limitations of the Pi-hole API I use. They’re working on a new API, I’m hoping that brings support for these things, then I can support it! A whois lookup is a nice suggestion, I’ll look into it. Thanks! Joost

Paulkosm ,

Disabling doesn’t work

I bought this app to be able quickly disable/enable pihole blocking but it doesn’t work. I have to access through the web and disable. After that the app shows status disabled but when I tap enable it doesn’t do anything. Still I have to do it through the web access. I am disappointed. If this part doesn’t work so I can’t trust the other parts of this app suspecting that it might screw up services of pihole.
EDIT: I missed the API web token. When I added it to host settings in the app everything is working now. Sorry for the above original review.

Developer Response ,

Glad you found out what was missing 🙂 thank you for your review! - Joost

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