NAS Guard Help

Monitoring (free)

• Live dashboard — CPU usage, CPU temperature, and memory gauges.
• Storage pools — health status, scrub progress, and usage.
• ZFS datasets — quota tracking, compression, and lock status.
• Network interfaces — per-interface statistics with real-time data rates.
• Services — running/stopped status for all TrueNAS services.
• Shares — overview of SMB, NFS, iSCSI, and NVMe-oF shares.
• Replication tasks — status and run state.
• Cloud Sync tasks — status and run state.
• Rsync tasks — status and run state.
• TrueCloud Backup tasks — status and run state.
• Snapshot tasks — status, schedule, and run state.
• Cron jobs — status and schedule.
• Docker apps — running/stopped/crashed status.
• Virtual machines — running/stopped/suspended status.
• UPS — status and configuration.
• Alerts — notifications from your TrueNAS system.
• Audit log — recent audit entries.
• Auth sessions — active sessions overview.
• API keys — key management overview.
• Certificates — TLS certificate list.
• Boot pool — status and usage.

File Browser (free)

• Browse directories and files on your TrueNAS via the API (filesystem.listdir).
• QuickLook preview for images, PDFs, documents, audio, and video files.
• Built-in audio player with visualizer.
• Built-in video player with HLS streaming via the NAS Guard Agent.
• File download limited to 50 MB for QuickLook preview.

Details: File Browser

Widgets (free)

• Home Screen: Small, Medium, and Large widget sizes.
• Lock Screen: Circular, Rectangular, and Inline accessory widgets.
• Live status, CPU, memory, temperature, pool usage, and alert count.
• Push-updated via the NAS Guard Agent.

Details: Widgets

Control Pack (In-App Purchase)

• Start/stop services.
• Start/stop/redeploy Docker apps.
• Start/stop/restart virtual machines.
• Create and delete ZFS snapshots.
• Run replication, Cloud Sync, Rsync, TrueCloud Backup, and snapshot tasks.
• Enable/disable cron jobs.
• Start, pause, resume, and stop pool scrubs.
• Enable/disable, create, edit, and delete SMB and NFS shares.
• Create, edit, and delete ZFS datasets.
• Lock and unlock encrypted ZFS datasets (with biometric passphrase support).
• Install system updates.
• On-Device Assistant (early beta, requires Apple Intelligence).

Details: Control Pack

NAS Guard Agent (free)

• Real-time push alerts for NAS problems (degraded pools, disk errors, failed services).
• One-tap install directly from the app — no manual setup needed.
• No port forwarding required — the Agent connects outbound to the push service.
• Privacy first — only alert metadata is transmitted, no access to your files.
• HLS video streaming for the in-app file browser.
• Direct file streaming for the in-app video player.
• TOFU certificate pinning for self-signed TrueNAS certificates.

Details: Install Agent

In-App Purchases

• Control Pack — unlocks all control actions listed above.
• Unlimited Servers — removes the single-server limit.
• Tips — optional one-time tips (small, medium, large) to support development.

Technical

• WebSocket connection (JSON-RPC 2.0) for real-time updates.
• Secure authentication via TrueNAS API key.
• Works with self-signed certificates (TOFU pinning).
• Automatic reconnection after network changes.
• Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets.
• Localizable in English, German, and Spanish.