Comparison

Nautik for Kubernetes vs K8Z

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 supports Helm, YAML editing, and seamless integration with major cloud providers.

Highlights
  • Multi-cluster and multi-namespace management
  • Real-time resource watching and updates
  • Integrated log viewer and terminal
  • Port forwarding and Helm client
  • YAML source editing and resource creation
  • Cloud provider integration
  • Customizable dashboards and widgets
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

K8Z

Manage your Kubernetes clusters directly from your mobile device. View cluster metrics, resource overviews, logs, and events. Access containers via shell. Open-source and transparent security.

Highlights
  • Kubernetes cluster management
  • Metric overview
  • Resource overview
  • View logs and events
  • Container shell access
  • Open-source security
Features
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k8z is your Kubernetes clusters manager right in your pocket. It is a mobile and desktop application to manage Kubernetes clusters, provides a metric overview of cluster, overview of all resources in a Kubernetes cluster. It is possible to view logs and events or to get a shell into a container. [About security of your k8s cluster's access credentials (kubeconfig)] Our application, being open source, invites everyone to examine its inner workings, including its handling of API credentials. This transparency ensures that there are no hidden functions that compromise the security. You can get source code from our GitHub repository, it's address at settings page in the application. Privacy Policy: https://k8z.dev/docs/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Nautik for Kubernetes4 screens
K8Z1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: K8Z at 5.0 against Nautik for Kubernetes's 4.6. K8Z also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). Nautik for Kubernetes's advantage is chart position (#83 vs unranked) and ratings volume (15 vs 3). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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 and K8Z sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

K8Z holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Nautik for Kubernetes has 15 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Nautik for Kubernetes ships an update every 3 weeks, K8Z fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Nautik for Kubernetes versus K8Z: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNautik for KubernetesK8Z
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (15 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews79.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings15 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
Best chart rank#83 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac
Requires iOS18.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size320 MB106 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperDWRPD Software UG haftungsbeschraenkt矾建 孔

Customer experience

Nautik for Kubernetes

All ratings15 ratings
Positive93.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative6.7%
Written reviews24 reviews
Positive79.2%
Neutral12.5%
Negative8.3%

K8Z

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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
3 purchases

K8Z

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Pro Yearly$17.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pro Lifetime$99.99

Questions

Is Nautik for Kubernetes free?
Nautik for Kubernetes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is K8Z free?
K8Z is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Nautik for Kubernetes or K8Z?
K8Z is rated higher. Nautik for Kubernetes averages 4.6 out of 5 from 15 ratings, while K8Z averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Nautik for Kubernetes or K8Z have ads?
Neither Nautik for Kubernetes nor K8Z shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Nautik for Kubernetes or K8Z?
Nautik for Kubernetes ships an update every 3 weeks, and K8Z fortnightly. Most recently, Nautik for Kubernetes was updated on October 25, 2026 and K8Z on October 10, 2026.

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