// blog · · by Nathan Baldwin
// The Bitaxe Baller iOS app is live on the App Store. A native remote viewer for your home mining fleet: live hashrate, per-device charts, biometric unlock, zero tracking — and as of v1.16.5 you can watch your first miner from anywhere without Pro.
The Bitaxe Baller iOS app is live on the App Store. Android shipped earlier this month; this is the other half of the pair, and it means whichever phone is in your pocket can now show you your home mining fleet from anywhere.
Like the Android build, it’s a native app and a remote viewer. The desktop app on your home network is still where the real work happens — scanning the LAN, tuning, presets, pool config. The phone app rides the same relay your desktop already uses and gives you a clean, live read on everything from wherever you are.
This is the part worth saying first, because it changed since the Android launch. As of v1.16.5, remote access is free for one miner. Turn on Remote Access in the desktop app’s Pro panel, pair your phone with a code, and you’re watching your fleet from anywhere — no port forwarding, no VPN, no subscription. Free accounts see their first miner; Pro shows every miner plus the long-term history. So if you run a single Bitaxe, the phone app is now a completely free away-from-home window into it.
Open it and you land on the live fleet view: total hashrate, total power draw, average efficiency in J/TH, and how many miners are online. It refreshes every five seconds, the same cadence as the desktop dashboard.
Tap any device card and you drop into the per-device drill-down — live metrics, rolling averages from one minute out to one hour, and the hashrate, ASIC-temperature, and VR-temperature charts. Cards are severity-colored the way you’d expect: green for stable, yellow when temps or HW errors start climbing, red for anything critical. You can read the health of the whole fleet at a glance without parsing a single number.
On Pro, the long-term history comes with you: 24-hour, 7-day, 30-day, and 90-day views of hashrate, temperatures, and efficiency — the data that catches the slow problems a live dashboard never will, like silicon degradation, dust buildup, or a tuning change that quietly cost you efficiency. There’s also a pool and stratum readout and a recent-events feed for tuning changes, restarts, and pool switches.
Open the Pro panel on the desktop, hit “Pair a new device,” and you get a scannable QR code next to the 22-character pair text. Point the iPhone’s camera at your screen, confirm, done — no typing a 22-character string on a phone keyboard. (The text code is still there if you’d rather paste it.)
There’s no network setup and nothing exposed to the internet. The desktop app opens an outbound connection to relay.bitaxeballer.com; the phone talks to the same relay, routed by your account credential. The relay is dumb routing — it moves encrypted bytes and never sees your hashrate, tuning, pool config, or device labels. All the product logic stays on your local install.
A remote window into your miners should be paranoid by default, so security is where I spent the most time. Biometric unlock — Face ID or Touch ID — fires on every cold launch, so your credential never sits readable without you unlocking first. Session tokens are signed server-side, expire after 24 hours, and are revocable instantly: flip off remote access on the desktop and every session drops within seconds.
No analytics. No tracking. No third-party SDKs. The app makes exactly three kinds of network calls: a login at startup, the WebSocket to the relay, and the standard system calls iOS makes regardless. Apple’s privacy nutrition label reflects it: no data collected, no data shared.
It’s a viewer, not a controller. Tuning, scanning your LAN, and adding devices all still happen on the desktop app. Remote tuning from the phone is on the public roadmap — the obvious next step — but I’d rather ship the safe read-only window first and get the control surface right than rush it. And to state the obvious: it’s not a wallet, an exchange, or a payment app. It never touches your funds.
The free desktop app running on your home network with at least one Bitaxe configured, and Remote Access switched on in its Pro panel. That’s it for one miner. Watching your full fleet — and the 90-day history — is what Pro ($29/year, 5 device activations) adds. The desktop app stays free, forever, for local use.
Get it on the App Store · Get it on Google Play · What Pro includes
The desktop app and the mobile wrapper are MIT-licensed at github.com/465media/bitaxe-baller if you want to read exactly how license validation and biometric storage work before you trust either with your fleet.
