Comparison

xMatters vs Starkive Manifest

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

Head to head
About

xMatters

This platform helps operations teams automate workflows and ensure applications are always running. It provides actionable alerts with full context, allowing quick assessment of incidents and rapid response. Manage on-call schedules, initiate calls, and access contact information directly from your mobile device.

Highlights
  • Actionable alerts with full incident context
  • Launch response workflows
  • Track message delivery and response
  • Manage on-call schedules
  • Initiate conference calls
  • Access personnel contact info
  • Custom alert tones
Features
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xMatters is a service reliability platform that helps DevOps, SREs, and operations teams automate workflows, ensure infrastructure and applications are always working, and rapidly deliver products at scale. With the xMatters iOS app, you get actionable alerts with full context for every situation that let you quickly assess incidents and launch response workflows at the touch of a button. The xMatters app is a “pocket command center” that allows you to: * Send and receive alerts with full incident context * Launch actionable responses and workflows * Track message delivery, escalation, and response * Set, update, and view your on-call schedule * Initiate conference calls or join at the tap of a button * Access contact info for your personnel * Set custom alert tones * Attach images for more context or instructions * Extend your enterprise authentication to your mobile devices * Protect sensitive data by enabling passcode lock For those that want to be truly agile, fast-moving companies with happy customers AND happy engineers, xMatters is the only platform for the job. To learn more about xMatters and get your free account visit xmatters.com

About

Starkive Manifest

Features
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Starkive Manifest is an IT asset register for the people who have to answer for the hardware: what you own, who holds it, where it is, and the evidence an auditor will ask for. The iPhone app is a complete register on its own, and a Mac is optional. It keeps its own copy, so you can record an asset at the rack with no signal. The Mac app is the full desk, with every report and the deeper compliance work. One subscription covers both. HAVE A LOOK FIRST, FREE It's free to download. Open the demo from the first screen: a made-up company with 1,000 assets, its people, contracts, jobs and paperwork, plus six things to try. It's free for three days from the moment you open it. No card, and nothing of yours goes in it. RAISE IT HERE, PICK IT UP THERE Raise a job on your iPhone and pick it up on your Mac, or the other way round, when the two are paired or both on Starkive Cloud. Jobs and requests sit together in Work, each with a number like JOB-0001 or REQ-0001. Give a job to the team, a person or a device, then claim it, report it done and have someone else check it. TAP A TAG, OPEN THE RECORD Write an NFC tag from a record and stick it on the machine. Then a tap of your iPhone opens that record. If the app is closed, iOS may show a banner to tap first. The tag holds a link, never the record itself. EVERYTHING IN FIVE TABS Home, Assets, Scan, Work and Compliance. Home puts what needs you first. Open an asset and four things sit at the top: who has it, where it is, when it was last verified and the warranty. Verify comes up when a check is due, and editing is one form with one Save. If it's missing something your audit needs, it says so, with one next step for each. Nothing is recorded until you do it. YOUR DATA, YOUR MACHINES Choose a local register and it's a file on your own device. No account, no telemetry, and none of your inventory reaches us. We only get the support messages you send. A Mac and an iPhone can sync straight to each other over your own network, and the Mac only listens if you switch that on. Or choose Starkive Cloud, hosted in the United States, to sync without sharing a network. Even then the fields that matter most (regulated scope, disposal witnesses, sanitisation certificates, each asset's lease rent, condition notes, custom field values and every photo) are encrypted on your device with a key we never receive. BUILT FOR AN AUDIT Built on open standards: ISO/IEC 19770 concepts and NIST SP 800-88 sanitisation categories. The audit trail can't be edited from the app, because that's what makes it evidence. A stamp that records an action is written by doing the action, never typed, so "verified" means somebody verified it. In Starkive Cloud the trail is also kept on our servers, where the apps can add to it but can't change or remove it. IN THE FIELD Read an asset tag, barcode or serial with the camera, and if it reads more than one, tap the right one. A sweep records what it saw and never claims more. WHAT YOU GET On iPhone and Mac: • Every asset in one register, searchable by tag, serial, model, person or site • Custom fields, even ones that stay on your devices • Contracts, vendors, consumables and reorder points • People, and who holds which device • Compliance: which evidence reports are ready, and what's still missing • An evidence pack mapped to the controls it covers On the Mac: a customisable asset table, directory sync from Okta or Microsoft Entra, CSV import, repairs and RMAs, and plain-English dashboards. Plans are monthly auto-renewing subscriptions. Each plan says how many assets it holds and how many devices can use it at once, from 5 to 100, your own included. If a subscription ends, your register stays readable and exportable, and only adding and editing stop. Starkive Cloud deletes its copy 30 days later, after emailing you twice. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://starkive.app/manifest/privacy

Screenshots

xMatters4 screens
Starkive Manifest4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: xMatters at none against Starkive Manifest's 10. Starkive Manifest's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Starkive Manifest sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $49.00 per month. xMatters asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

xMatters ships an update every 3 weeks, Starkive Manifest every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
xMatters versus Starkive Manifest: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterxMattersStarkive Manifest
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.4 (49 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews32.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings49 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, Mac
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details — not scored
Size54 MB49 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperxMatters Inc.DEPALO CONSULTING LLC

In-app purchases

None

xMatters

No in-app purchases

10 purchases

Starkive Manifest

Subscriptions10
  • Starkive Cloud, 500 assets$49.001 Month
  • Starkive Local, 5,000 assets$89.001 Month
  • Starkive Cloud, 2,000 assets$99.001 Month
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  • Starkive Cloud, 5,000 assets$159.001 Month
  • Starkive Cloud, 10,000 assets$239.001 Month
  • Starkive Local, 20,000 assets$249.001 Month
  • Starkive Cloud, 20,000 assets$369.001 Month
  • Starkive Local, 40,000 assets$399.001 Month
  • Starkive Local, unlimited$699.001 Month
  • Starkive Cloud, unlimited$999.001 Month

Questions

Is xMatters free?
xMatters is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Starkive Manifest free?
Starkive Manifest is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do xMatters or Starkive Manifest have ads?
Neither xMatters nor Starkive Manifest shows ads.
Which is updated more often, xMatters or Starkive Manifest?
xMatters ships an update every 3 weeks, and Starkive Manifest every 3 days. Most recently, xMatters was updated on November 1, 2026 and Starkive Manifest on October 29, 2026.

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