On 28 June 2026 providerliste.de published a news item in German on how DeviceShelf finds every device on a network. providerliste compares internet, hosting, VPN and phone providers in Switzerland, Germany and Austria, and the same item appeared on its .at and .ch sites.
The item describes the one-click scan that maps the local network with every device and every open port, and says what each device actually is. It points out that DeviceShelf then keeps watch and warns when something new appears, all locally, with no account and no telemetry. It also notes the one exception: the AI feature sends data to a provider, unless you run a local Ollama instance instead.
At the time the mobile apps were still announced. The iOS app has been in the App Store since July 2026, and the Android app is available as an APK from the download page.