glinet 4+

The App is enough to get a basic setup, but missing most of the Admin console from the web interface features. As a Network Engineer the hardware is solid at the price point and able to serve many use cases.

However, the app needs to include each and every option that is in the web Admin console. Why have an app that is not fully functional. Why should the end user have to go to two different interfaces to completely configure their device. While I now have 4 Gl-iNet routers for various use cases within a much larger network. Its a pain to have to access the advanced features via a web browser when there’s an app that could do the same thing.

Gl-iNet, do better, be better add 100% of the functionally to the app that is in the Admin Web Console.

Really like the app, good UI and functionality to setup router from scratch or adjust common configuration settings!

I’d like to see one very key functionality in the future, pretty much a reason I bought the router - travel.

If only the app could automate the most common common workflow dealing with captive portals and internet connection.. Today it is totally up to a user and app isn’t helping at all, and even confused me as I was expecting it offer some help. Something like this would be awesome:
- router and app should detect if there are internet issues and detect captive portals automatically
- then router needs to prohibit clients from connecting to the outbound internet for security; disable DNS settings, AdGuard and VPN
- then iOS app would prompt in a separate
window to deal with captive portal, similarly how MacBooks and iPads and iPhones do today
- alternatively offer an option to import MAC address (the only reliable option in my experience so far)
- once connection to the internet is established, enable back all the DNS, AdGuard and VPN settings and after that enable clients to access the internet securely.

Something like this would make this the best secure travel router friendly to everyday users!

This App could be good, but isn’t yet ready for Prime Time.

Firstly, it asks for the router password, which is understandable, but it isn’t clear whether it’s phoning home with that password (as it apparently offers a cloud service for syncing passwords). So i have a trust issue with this App.

[Note: Apple offers free iCloud syncing for app developers, so at the very least, they should be using (or at least offer) iCloud rather than “GoodCloud.”]

Secondly, while it’ll run on an iPad, it’s not designed with iPads in mind. Granted, it doesn’t purport to be an iPad app (only an iPhone app), but it would be so much more useful if it played nicely with iPads… and operated in landscape orientation!

Perhaps they figure that using the web interface on a larger screen eliminates the need for this app on an iPad? Might be. But i think this app could be very nice to have on an iPad, if for no other reason than to monitor router status, etc.

And wouldn’t it be nice if it had a Widget for the Home Screen, showing Network Connection and VPN status?

It would be useful if the app — and the Widget — had a red dot indicator, if a firmware update was available.

I can understand them not offering a Luci interface in the app, but at the very least, they should offer a web link to the Luci interface, so it’s a one-click operation to open in Safari.

Finally, how about a few more screenshots on the app’s page in the App Store?