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Why switch

One app, the whole NAS

Q: Does it cost anything ongoing?

No. Syno Manager is a one-time $6.99 purchase with no ads, no subscriptions and no in-app purchases. It is priced per platform, so Google Play and the Microsoft Store are separate; Apple is a single universal purchase covering iPhone, iPad and Mac.

Syno Manager is a third-party Synology client built around a different question: not "what can a phone app do to files", but "what does a NAS owner actually check, and what do they want to fix from the sofa".

The shape of it

Six reasons people move over

🔢

One app, not several

System, storage, network, containers, packages, cameras, photos, backups, files, users and tasks - all in one place, with one connection and one sign-in.

🚩

A health badge that names the cause

Not "Warning" - which drive, which volume, what temperature. And it never shows a healthy tick over a reading it could not take.

🔧

Control, not just monitoring

Restart a container, install a package, run a backup, toggle a service, eject a drive, wake a machine, change the fan mode - from the phone.

🌐

Everything works away from home

Photos, camera live view and file downloads all go over QuickConnect. No port forwarding, no reduced feature set when you leave the house.

🎨

A dashboard that is yours

Reorder, collapse or hide any card, pick the tabs in the bottom bar, choose your accent, and get true black on OLED. It reopens the way you left it.

✨

An assistant on the device

Ask about your NAS in plain words, answered by a model on your phone. Works offline, sends nothing anywhere, and only ever reads.

Where each tool fits

This is not a DSM replacement

Being clear about the boundary is more useful than claiming there is not one.

Task	Where it belongs	Why
Create or expand a volume	DSM	Irreversible, and needs a screen that shows the whole array at once.
Define a backup task	DSM	Source selection, schedule and retention are a long form.
Create a container	DSM or Portainer	Ports, mounts and environment variables need room.
Restore from a backup	DSM	Not something to start by accident on a phone.
And on the phone
Is anything wrong right now?	Syno Manager	One screen, with the reason named.
Did the backup run?	Syno Manager	Last run, next run, and the size it actually takes.
Restart that container	Syno Manager	Three taps, with the log one more.
Install a package	Syno Manager	Search, pick a volume, install - confirmed by re-reading the list.
Check the front door	Syno Manager	Live view, from anywhere, without exposing RTSP.
Wake the desktop before you get home	Syno Manager	The NAS broadcasts the packet for you.

The design rule

A number that could mean two things is named, not guessed

This runs through the whole app, and it is the thing that is hardest to see in a screenshot and most valuable in daily use.

An unread setting is called unread, not drawn as zero - because in Download Station, zero means "no limit", and a failed read shown as zero is a confident lie.
A VPN profile's status is not claimed, because the DSM record carries no status field to read it from.
A widget says when its numbers were taken, because a quiet NAS and a stale widget look identical without it.
An eject is confirmed by the drive leaving, not by the request being accepted.
A fan mode change is read back, so a mode the NAS refused is reported as refused.
An unrecognised state is shown as itself - a virtual machine that is neither running nor off gets the word the NAS used and the recovery control, not a Start button that cannot work.

A wrong label on a correctly-read value arrives with all the authority of a real reading, and nobody can tell. That is worth more care than a feature list.

Privacy

There is no server in the middle

No MiyaraHub server. Your phone connects to your NAS. There is nothing else in that path.
Credentials in the platform keychain, never plain text, and excluded from device backups.
The assistant is on-device, and the build fails if a cloud SDK or API key appears anywhere in it.
One-time $6.99, priced per platform. No ads, no subscriptions, no in-app purchases. Apple is one universal purchase for iPhone, iPad and Mac.
Crash reports are the one exception, and they are named rather than buried.

Independent, and says so. Syno Manager is made by MiyaraHub Technologies and is not affiliated with Synology. It uses DSM's publicly documented APIs - the same ones DSM's own web interface calls.

Common questions

Why switch, answered

Why use a third-party Synology app at all?

Because Synology splits its mobile functionality across several apps, each doing one thing well. Syno Manager is the other shape: one app that monitors the NAS and controls the things you want to control from a phone, without switching between apps to do it.

Is it a replacement for DSM?

No, and it does not try to be. DSM is where you build things; Syno Manager is where you check on them and act on them.

Does it cost anything ongoing?

No. Syno Manager is a one-time $6.99 purchase with no ads, no subscriptions and no in-app purchases. It is priced per platform, so Google Play and the Microsoft Store are separate purchases; Apple is a single universal purchase covering iPhone, iPad and Mac.

Is my data safe with a third-party app?

Syno Manager connects to your NAS directly, with no MiyaraHub server in that path. Credentials are held in the device keychain and excluded from device backups, and the assistant's model runs on the phone. Crash reports are the one thing that leaves the device, and they carry a stack trace rather than anything about your NAS - see privacy.

Will it work with my NAS?

If it runs DSM 7.0 or later, yes. See compatibility.