EasyMQTT vs Grafana
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
EasyMQTT
This application acts as an MQTT client for iOS devices, enabling interaction with any MQTT broker. It offers a user-friendly interface for managing home automation setups, controlling devices, and monitoring remote brokers. Advanced features can be unlocked through an in-app purchase.
- MQTT client for iOS
- Interact with any MQTT Broker
- Home automation control
- Siri Shortcuts integration
- Light and dark mode support
- Save favorite topics and messages
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EasyMQTT is an MQTT client for iPhone and iPad that helps you connect to your broker, monitor live topics, and publish messages quickly. Use it for home automation setups, Zigbee2MQTT, remote monitoring, or everyday MQTT debugging. With EasyMQTT you can: - connect to multiple MQTT brokers - subscribe to topics and inspect incoming messages in real time - publish messages quickly or save recurring payloads as favorites - create widgets and graph widgets for the MQTT values you care about - automate actions with Siri Shortcuts - review connection history and saved broker locations EasyMQTT Plus unlocks additional features including favorites for brokers, topics, and messages, more powerful widget workflows, and deeper Siri Shortcuts automation. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Grafana
Manage and respond to critical system events from anywhere. Designed for on-call engineers, it offers reliable alert notifications and reminders to simplify incident response duties.
- Incident management
- On-call reminders
- Alert notifications
- System event response
- On-the-go management
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Grafana is the official mobile app for Grafana Cloud. Stay connected to your observability and incident response workflows wherever you are. With the Grafana mobile app, you can: • Ask Grafana Assistant questions and continue recent conversations • Browse dashboards and view starred dashboards and panels • Receive reliable push notifications for alerts and incidents • Acknowledge, resolve, silence, or escalate alert groups • See who is on call and review upcoming schedules • Respond to incidents and keep the timeline updated • Page a team or trigger a manual alert An existing Grafana Cloud account is required. Available features depend on the products enabled for your stack and your permissions. The app does not support Grafana OSS. Learn more at https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/alerting-and-irm/irm/irm-mobile-app/.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Grafana at 4.7 against EasyMQTT's 3.5. Grafana also leads on review sentiment (67% vs 27%) and in-app purchases (none vs 6). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. EasyMQTT sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 3 months. Grafana asks for nothing beyond the download.
Grafana holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 36 and 65 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 27% of EasyMQTT's written reviews are positive against 67% of Grafana's.
EasyMQTT ships an update every 2 weeks, Grafana fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | EasyMQTT | Grafana |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (36 ratings) | 4.7 (65 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 26.9% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 36 | 65 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 131 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Luca Kaufmann | Grafana Labs |
Customer experience
EasyMQTT
Grafana
In-app purchases
EasyMQTT
- EasyMQTT Plus - Three months$1.993 Months
- EasyMQTT Plus Yearly Sub14 Days trial$3.991 Year
- EasyMQTT Plus Yearly Sub14 Days trial$5.991 Year
- EasyMQTT Plus$10.99
- EasyMQTT Plus lifetime2 variants$14.99
Grafana
No in-app purchases
