MikroTik app uses Winbox protocol?

Was playing around with the MikroTik app for iOS and while it saw the router it wouldn’t connect. It had me second guessing my password till I tried toggling the services and it would appear that it won’t work without the Winbox service running. That’s kind of odd to me. Wouldn’t this be using the web-apis? I prefer not to run Winbox service just for the app.

Apparently yes the Mobile app uses Winbox, it was right in the logs. I would prefer Winbox off but such is life:

user admin logged in from 10.1.8.107 via winbox