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Mocha WOL app for iPhone and iPad


4.4 ( 144 ratings )
Business Utilities
Developer: MochaSoft
Free
Current version: 2.3, last update: 1 year ago
First release : 07 Mar 2011
App size: 1006 Kb

Wake-on-LAN for easy wake up calls. Use your iPhone or iPad to power up a sleeping Mac or PC on your network.

FEATURES:

- Easy detection of local computers with Bonjour and NETBIOS lookup.
- Can ping your computer to check, when it it is ready.
- Broadcast on a LAN.
- Works from other networks as 3G and WIFI.
- Can keep 30 configurations for computers to WOL.
- Build in help guides.

HOW IT WORKS:

When you select a computer to wake, a special UDP data frame is broadcast on the LAN. When the sleeping computer see the data frame, it will wake up. If the iPhone or iPad is on another network, such as 3G, you must first configure the HOME router to forward the special UDP package.

Pros and cons of Mocha WOL app for iPhone and iPad

Mocha WOL app good for

Here It worked very well using wifi (Mac Mini 2011 + iPhone 4). Better than expected.
Simple and easy, dont see any reason to even consider the other apps which cost money. Thanks for making it free
Works as advertised. Forward the udp port to your Mac address and works fine via 3G iPhone4!
Works as planned. Can wake up my ubuntu server. No prob. Quick and easy
Easy to setup, allow you to see if a computer is online, easy classic iphone interface.
A little lazy UI but hey... It does what its supposed to do :) Thank you app developers

Some bad moments

Pretty useless app. When trying to send a packet over the internet it defaults to some strange broadcast address which never makes it anywhere, and wont detect vpn. Dont waste your time here, go get "remote boot" since it actually works and be done with it.
I was looking for a basic Wake On LAN app for my iPad and was happy to find this wonderful free app.
Generally, this is an absolutely excellent app, supporting both Wake on Lan, and Wake on WAN as well. Both work as advertised. Still, if Im allowed a little constructive criticism on this (again) excellent and versitile app, I would say it could use a little sharpening in the UI. If the primary purpose of this app is to wake a computer up, why am I brought to a selection menu asking what I want to do (Wake, configure, etc) each time I boot it up? Maybe other people have a much deeper tweaking need with their WOL needs, but for me it seems odd to have the apps primary function buried under an extra layer of UI.
I havent done any extensive testing with it, but it was really easy to set up and I was able to wake my sleeping laptop over wifi with no problem. The only think I would add is maybe a quick wake up button on the home screen for a most recent or favorite computer. Its a little annoying to have to click through menus to get to the option. But its not really a big deal.
Worked on the first try. Just what I needed since Logmein Ignition doesnt seem to like waking on lan.
Very easy to configure and easy to use!! Been trying to use Splashtop WOL, will be using this until they get it together and come out with interactions on how to configure that!!