Nautik for Kubernetes vs GLab
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 supports Helm, YAML editing, and seamless integration with major cloud providers.
- 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
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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
GLab
A native mobile client for managing GitLab projects, including merge requests, issues, CI/CD pipelines, and repositories. Offers offline access to cached data and supports multiple GitLab instances.
- Full merge request viewer with syntax highlighting
- Line-level commenting and suggestions
- CI/CD pipeline monitoring and management
- Repository file browsing and editing
- Unified todo inbox and activity feed
- Offline access to cached data
- Multi-instance support
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Review, approve and merge from your phone — on gitlab.com or your company's self-hosted GitLab. GLab is a fast, native iPhone client for developers who ship on the go. You assemble the Home screen yourself, so it shows only the work waiting on you. Works with gitlab.com and any self-hosted GitLab (CE or EE, 14.x+). Connect multiple instances and switch in one tap. One-tap gitlab.com sign-in; guided setup for your own server or token. — WHAT YOU CAN DO — A Home screen you assemble • Up to eight modules: review requests, your MRs, issues, todos, failed, active and recent pipelines, recent projects • Every section renders as a list or a carousel; content, order and density are yours to set • Developer, Reviewer and Lead / DevOps presets rebuild Home in one tap • A status line: signals awaiting you, offline and unsent state • Swipe actions right in the lists: approve, merge, close an issue, retry or cancel a pipeline, snooze for a day Merge Requests • Full diff viewer with syntax highlighting and word-level changes • Comment on lines; threaded discussions — reply, resolve, edit • Apply suggestions from a review straight into the code • Create MRs; edit title, description, labels, assignees, milestone • Approve, unapprove, merge, rebase, close, reopen Issues • Create, comment, close, reopen, lock • Edit title, description, labels, assignees, milestones, due dates • Emoji reactions, subscribe, search across all projects CI/CD Pipelines • Active builds across all your projects right on the Home screen • Live status with stages, jobs and duration in the list • Run a pipeline on any branch; retry, cancel, play manual jobs • Raw build logs refreshing live; environments, deployments and runners Repository • Browse the file tree, view blobs with highlighting, line history (blame) • Create/delete files; branches and tags, compare diffs, commit history • Wiki, Snippets and Releases — browse and edit; README rendering Todos, groups and Ops • Unified todo inbox by project and action; mark-all-done and swipe actions • Activity feed, GitLab status, group list drilling into projects • CI/CD variables, schedules, runners, environments, registry (Maintainer+) • Project members — add, change access level, remove — FAST AND OFFLINE — Merge requests and issues are ready on Home from cache, even offline. Pipelines and job logs update live, then pause in the background to save battery. — MULTI-INSTANCE BY DESIGN — Every project, MR, issue and pipeline is scoped to its GitLab instance — gitlab.com never mixes with self-hosted, even with matching issue numbers. — PRIVACY AND SECURITY — • Personal Access Token and OAuth 2.0 PKCE sign-in • Tokens stored only in the Keychain, on this device • Tokens, emails, URLs and response bodies are never logged or sent to analytics • Anonymous analytics/crash reports — no personal data, no ad IDs • Privacy policy: https://gitlab.com/appstore-demo/glab/-/blob/main/PRIVACY.md — FREE AND PRO — GLab is free for read-only browsing of unlimited projects. Optional Pro subscription (auto-renewing, 3/6/12 months) unlocks: • Multiple connected GitLab accounts • Create issues and MRs; comment on diff lines, apply suggestions, edit, react • Repository editing — files, branches, tags • Approve/merge MRs; run, retry, cancel pipelines; manage CI/CD variables Charged to your Apple ID; auto-renews unless cancelled 24h before period end. — NATIVE ON iPhone — iOS 18 and later. 100% SwiftUI, Dynamic Type, VoiceOver, light and dark themes. Widgets (Home Screen, Lock Screen, StandBy) show your MRs, todos and pipelines at a glance. Siri Shortcuts open a project hands-free. Apple Watch mirrors your review queue, todos and pipelines. Download GLab — your next review is one tap away. GLab is an independent app, not affiliated with, endorsed, sponsored or approved by GitLab Inc. GitLab is a trademark of GitLab Inc. EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Support: emvakar@gmail.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: GLab at 5.0 against Nautik for Kubernetes's 4.6. GLab also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 79%) and chart position (#82 vs unranked). Nautik for Kubernetes's advantage is ratings volume (15 vs 1) and device support (5 vs 2). 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 GLab sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per 3 months. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
GLab 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 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 79% of Nautik for Kubernetes's written reviews are positive against 100% of GLab's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Nautik for Kubernetes | GLab |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (15 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 79.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Best chart rank | — | #82 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 320 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DWRPD Software UG haftungsbeschraenkt | Emil Karimov |
Customer experience
Nautik for Kubernetes
GLab
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
GLab
- GLab Pro — 3 months7 Days trial$6.993 Months
- GLab Pro — 6 months7 Days trial$12.996 Months
- GLab Pro — 1 year3 Days trial$19.991 Year









