Nautik for Kubernetes vs ProxMate Backup
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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
ProxMate Backup
Monitor and manage your Proxmox Backup Servers with a comprehensive overview of resources, data stores, and tasks. View disk details, S.M.A.R.T. data, and manage snapshots. Supports TOTP for enhanced security.
- Proxmox Backup Server overview
- Data store details
- Disk and S.M.A.R.T. data
- Task summary and syslog
- Snapshot management
- Server restart/shutdown
- TOTP support
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With ProxMate Backup you get a quick and easy overview of your Proxmox Backup Server • Monitor the resources and details of your Proxmox Backup Server • Get details about Data Stores • View disks, LVM, directories, and ZFS • Disk temperature and S.M.A.R.T. data • Convenient task summary for a quick overview • Detailed task information and syslog • Show details abound backed up content • Verify, delete and protect snapshots • Restart or Shutdown your PBS • TOTP Support Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://proxmate-app.de/norobots/en/website-privacy-policy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Nautik for Kubernetes at 4.6 against ProxMate Backup's 4.0. Nautik for Kubernetes also leads on chart position (#114 vs unranked) and device support (5 vs 2). ProxMate Backup's advantage is review sentiment (92% vs 79%) and iOS requirement (16.6 vs 18.0). 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
Both are free to download. Nautik for Kubernetes sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and ProxMate Backup sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Nautik for Kubernetes holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 15 and 4 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 79% of Nautik for Kubernetes's written reviews are positive against 92% of ProxMate Backup's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Nautik for Kubernetes ships an update every 3 weeks, ProxMate Backup fortnightly. Both last shipped on October 30, 2026.
| Parameter | Nautik for Kubernetes | ProxMate Backup |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (15 ratings) — better | 4.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 79.2% of reviews | 92.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Best chart rank | #114 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 324 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DWRPD Software UG haftungsbeschraenkt | Lars Herres |
Customer experience
Nautik for Kubernetes
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In-app purchases
Nautik for Kubernetes
- Nautik Pro (Monthly)$4.991 Month
- Nautik Pro (Yearly)7 Days trial$49.991 Year
- Nautik Pro (Lifetime)$149.99
ProxMate Backup
- Pro Monthly3 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Pro Lifetime$9.99
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