Comparison
Warm accounts —without becoming a phone-farm operator.
DIY tools like warmr.so are real software on real phones — but the phones are yours to buy, wire up, and babysit. Warmrun runs the fleet for you. Here’s an honest look at where each fits.
Warmrun
A fleet of real, physical phones warms your accounts on our infrastructure. You pick the rules and schedule; we own the hardware, SIMs, IPs, and uptime. Or go fully managed and we run all of it.
From $150 / account / mo · no phones to buy
Run-it-yourself tools
An app on your Mac drives iPhones you buy and connect. Genuinely real devices — but the sourcing, wiring, SIMs, proxies, failures, and scaling are all on you.
Cheap per seat · you supply the farm
| Warmrun (managed) | DIY (run-it-yourself) | Edge | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who owns the hardware | We do — a managed fleet of real phones | You do — you buy the iPhones | Warmrun |
| Devices to set up & babysit | None | Every iPhone, plus a Mac to drive them | Warmrun |
| SIMs & residential IPs | Sourced and managed per account | You source and manage each one | Warmrun |
| When a device fails at 3am | Our problem — the fleet self-heals | Your problem | Warmrun |
| Warming rules | Proven templates or bring your own | You configure it all yourself | Even |
| Scheduled posting across the fleet | Queue once, staggered across accounts | Built in, you run it | Even |
| Upfront cost | None — pay per active account | Buy phones + Mac before you start | Warmrun |
| Fully done-for-you option | Yes — the Managed plan | No — it’s software you operate | Warmrun |
| Best for | Operators who want warm accounts, not a farm | Tinkerers who want to own the rack | Even |
The honest take
If you enjoy owning the rack — you like buying the iPhones, wiring the Mac, sourcing SIMs and proxies, and you have the time to keep it all alive — DIY software is genuinely cheaper per seat, and it works. That’s a real path and we won’t pretend otherwise.
But most people don’t want a phone farm. They want warm accounts. They don’t want to be the one debugging a frozen device at 3am or re-flashing a SIM that stopped working. That’s the line: DIY sells you the tools to build a farm; Warmrun sells you the outcome and keeps the farm out of your life.
And when you’d rather not touch the platform at all, Warmrun’s Managed plan runs the warming, scheduling and strategy for you — something a run-it-yourself app, by definition, can’t.
Skip the farm. Keep the accounts.
Real devices, run by us. Request an invite while the beta has capacity.