u/SLI_GUY

I run TrueNAS at home. Every so often I just want to check if the pools are fine, see why something’s beeping, turn a share off, or restart the box — and doing that in the mobile browser is awful.

So I vibe-coded TrueNAS Pocket: an unofficial Android app that talks to TrueNAS over its API. I built it for myself. If it’s useful to you too, cool.

It’s meant for simple stuff you actually do from the couch or standing next to the NAS:

• Is everything healthy?
• What’s using space / is a scrub running?
• Look at alerts and background jobs
• Manage datasets, snapshots, and SMB/NFS shares
• Start or stop apps and services
• Restart or shut down the NAS (with confirmation that makes you type the scary word)

It is not a full replacement for the TrueNAS web UI. Pool creation, fancy network setup, and a bunch of advanced stuff still belong in the browser. That’s intentional.

Unofficial community project — not affiliated with iXsystems or TrueNAS.

Repo + signed APK:
https://github.com/fefsf/truenas-android

Needs TrueNAS CE 25.04+ and Android 8+. Your API key permissions matter; destructive actions are deliberately annoying to confirm.

If you try it and something’s missing that you keep needing on your phone, tell me. I use this daily, so practical pain tends to get fixed.