Comparison

Nautik for Kubernetes vs Prometheus Metrics Reader

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Nautik for Kubernetes

A comprehensive Kubernetes IDE for Apple devices, offering multi-cluster and multi-namespace management, real-time resource watching, and an integrated terminal. It streamlines Kubernetes operations with features like log viewing, port forwarding, and Helm integration, enhanced by Apple Intelligence for summaries and explanations.

Highlights
  • Multi-cluster and multi-namespace management
  • Real-time resource watching and updates
  • Integrated log viewer with ANSI colors
  • Built-in terminal for pods and nodes
  • Port forwarding with robust reconnection
  • Apple Intelligence for resource summaries
  • Integrated Helm client
Features
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Nautik is the premier full-featured Kubernetes IDE designed exclusively for the Apple ecosystem. Its features include: - Multi-cluster mode: Viewing the resources of multiple clusters at once. - Multi-namespace mode: Viewing the resources of multiple namespaces of multiple clusters at once. - Rendering built-in resources and custom resources in beautifully designed native detail views. - Automatic resource watching with real-time updates. - Log viewer: Watching and searching logs of multiple pods and containers in one combined stream, including ANSI colors and font styles. - Integrated terminal: Attaching shells to both pods and nodes. - Port forwarding: Forwarding ports of pods and services to the device's localhost, including multiplexing and robust reconnection behavior—even over app restarts. - Apple Intelligence: Explain resources, summarize resource lists, summarize logs, and summarize the overall state of your cluster. - File provider support: Browse the file system contents of pods, nodes, and PVCs through the Finder and Files app. - Integrated Helm client to view, install, uninstall, upgrade and rollback Helm releases, pull charts from custom Helm repositories, and edit the configuration values of installed charts. - Editing resources as YAML source with the integrated, customizable text editor. - Creating new resources. - Deleting resources, cordoning and uncordoning nodes, evicting pods, restarting deployments, daemonsets, statefulsets and replicasets. - Scaling workload replicas up and down. - Manually triggering, suspending and resuming cron jobs - Convenient secret editing with automatic base64 decoding and encoding. - Accessing clusters stored on a local kubeconfig file, on the local system keychain, and optionally syncing stored clusters between devices via iCloud Keychain. - Multiple overview dashboards with time series charts powered by an internal Prometheus client. - Widgets for home screen, lock screen and desktop with workload statuses and Prometheus time series charts. - Rendering related events for resources and related pods for workloads. - Multi-window support. - Tabbing support (on macOS). - Handoff support. - Focus filter support. - Integration with Siri and Shortcuts. - Authentication via OpenID Connect. - Easy integration with Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, DigitalOcean and Talos Omni to automatically import and authorize clusters. - File provider support allowing you to browse node, pod and PVC filesystems through the Finder and Files app. - Many customization options like optional request gzipping, proxy URL support, or custom list sorting. The terms of service can be found here: https://nautik.io/tos

About

Prometheus Metrics Reader

Features
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Monitor your server resource usage with Prometheus Metrics Reader. For the application to work, you need to install Prometheus on your server. Download link - https://prometheus.io/download/ - The app supports adding multiple servers. - You can use the custom server port and Basic Auth. - You can use ready-made presets. - You can add your custom metrics or edit presets. - Metrics are updated automatically when the server screen is open. You can write any query using Prometheus Queries API - https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/querying/basics/ At the moment, the application only supports single values. Graphs and multiple values are not supported.

Screenshots

Nautik for Kubernetes4 screens
Prometheus Metrics Reader4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Prometheus Metrics Reader at none against Nautik for Kubernetes's 3. Prometheus Metrics Reader also leads on iOS requirement (16.1 vs 18.0). Nautik for Kubernetes's advantage is chart position (#109 vs unranked) and device support (5 vs 1). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Nautik for Kubernetes sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Prometheus Metrics Reader asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Nautik for Kubernetes versus Prometheus Metrics Reader: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNautik for KubernetesPrometheus Metrics Reader
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (15 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews79.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings15 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
Best chart rank#109 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.016.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size324 MB12 MB
Age rating4++4
DeveloperDWRPD Software UG haftungsbeschraenktIgor Kolpin

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Nautik for Kubernetes

Subscriptions2
  • Nautik Pro (Monthly)$4.991 Month
  • Nautik Pro (Yearly)7 Days trial$49.991 Year
One-time1
  • Nautik Pro (Lifetime)$149.99
None

Prometheus Metrics Reader

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Nautik for Kubernetes free?
Nautik for Kubernetes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Prometheus Metrics Reader free?
Prometheus Metrics Reader is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Nautik for Kubernetes or Prometheus Metrics Reader have ads?
Neither Nautik for Kubernetes nor Prometheus Metrics Reader shows ads.

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