I made an iPhone app to check and restart my Mac mini and my Thinkcenter running with Linux server , from my phone — free beta, looking for feedback
This started because I'm lazy. I've got a Mac mini and a little Thinkcenter at home doing server stuff, and I kept grabbing my laptop just to check if they were still alive or restart some service that died. Felt silly doing it five times a day.
So I built NtfyControl, an iPhone app to do it from my phone. It shows CPU/RAM/disk, lets me restart services and Docker containers, and pings me if something goes down.
How it works: you run a small agent on your machine (one command to install) and the app talks to it over Tailscale or a Cloudflare tunnel — so nothing's exposed to the internet and there's no open SSH port. The agent's open source (just Python), so you can see exactly what it does before putting it on your box. That part mattered to me.
It's a free TestFlight beta right now. I mostly just want people to try it and tell me what breaks, what's confusing, or what's missing for your setup. I built it for my own machines so I honestly don't know if it's useful for anyone else's.
Happy to answer anything in the comments.
Currently compatible with macOS and LINUX