Description of App
NASmeister is a native iPhone app for monitoring and controlling Synology NAS units running DSM 6 or DSM 7. You build your own dashboard from tiles, in five sizes across as many pages as you like, and you add only the modules you care about.
The free tier covers one server with live vitals: CPU, memory, disk, network, storage, system and UPS, plus kiosk mode and demo mode. Pro unlocks unlimited servers, usage history by day, week, month, six months or year, and every other module: Disk Health with per-drive S.M.A.R.T. status, storage pool state, Container Manager, Virtual Machine Manager, File Station, log centre, users, task scheduler, fan speed, Wake on LAN, power control and more.
There is no NASmeister account and no third-party server: the app connects straight to your DSM, over your own network or your QuickConnect ID, with two-factor sign-in and self-signed certificates supported. Your password is stored in the device Keychain only.
The welcome screen offers a full demo mode running on sample data, so you can explore every screen of the app before connecting anything.
Accessibility Comments
I have been beta testing this app with VoiceOver and working directly with the developer, who is a full-time iOS developer and built the app with accessibility in mind from the start.
Navigation is clean throughout. Buttons are labelled, screens follow a logical reading order, and the dashboard tiles announce a purpose-written summary rather than making you piece together separate labels. Charts are exposed to VoiceOver with their values spoken, which is unusual and very welcome: a CPU history graph announces its peak and range rather than sitting there as an unlabelled image. Module detail screens, the time range selector for usage history, and settings are all reachable.
When I started testing, adding a module to the dashboard was impossible with VoiceOver: activating a tile in the gallery added it to favourites, and there was no way to reach the size picker or the Add to Dashboard button. I reported it and the developer fixed it within a day using custom rotor actions. He has since reworked the VoiceOver summaries across the app so that each tile announces its name first, then its main value, then anything that needs attention.
Remaining issues are minor. Some decorative illustrations are still exposed to VoiceOver and should be hidden from it. A few of the less central modules still rely on VoiceOver reading whatever happens to be on screen rather than a written summary, which the developer is currently working through.
Worth knowing: the app is free for one server with live vitals, and demo mode requires no NAS at all, so you can judge the accessibility yourself before spending anything.
The developer is unusually responsive to accessibility reports and actively asks for them.