Comparison

New Relic vs AppDynamics

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

Head to head
About

New Relic

Access your application data on the go. Monitor real-time performance, view key metrics, receive alerts, and query dashboards directly from your mobile device. Stay informed about application performance and availability issues from anywhere.

Highlights
  • Track real-time and historical app performance
  • View key transaction data and errors
  • Receive push notifications for performance alerts
  • View and query dashboards
  • Favorite and view important applications
  • Monitor infrastructure to browser performance
Features
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Take your data to go. The New Relic app lets you access your data wherever you are. Receive alerts, view, query, and share dashboards, and more all from your mobile device. Download for free today. iOS/iPad features include: * Track real-time and historical app performance from infrastructure to browser * See key transaction data and app errors * Stay alert(ed) about application performance and availability issues with push notifications * View and query your most important dashboards * Favorite your most important applications and view them all in one screen with no clutter * Check out our docs for more information Monitor your stack’s performance anytime, anywhere with New Relic. Go on, close that laptop and get out of the office – we’ve got you covered. About New Relic New Relic is a software analytics company that makes sense of billions of data points about millions of applications in real time. Our comprehensive SaaS-based solution provides one powerful interface for web and native mobile applications and consolidates the performance monitoring data for any chosen technology in your environment. We have over 250,000 users that utilize our cloud solution to analyze more than 690 billion data points per day across more than 4 million application instances. When your brand and customer experience depend on the performance of modern software, New Relic provides insight into your overall environment. HOW TO’S To use the New Relic iOS app you must log in with your existing New Relic credentials. All New Relic accounts associated with this user will automatically appear inside the app. Set-up push notifications for Alerts customers * You can choose your push notification settings individually for each application * Log in into your New Relic account from a web browser * Click on Alerts * Click on Notification channels * Make sure your USER is added as a notification channel * Then choose Alert policy you wish to be added to * Add your USER to that notification channel for the policy Adding New Users * Tap on your Account name * Tap on ‘ADD USER’ on the bottom * You will be taken back to the login screen * Log in like you normally would with a new email

About

AppDynamics

Monitor application performance and availability from your mobile device. Customize your view, receive critical alerts, and quickly diagnose issues with automated tools. Requires an active subscription.

Highlights
  • Customizable home screen
  • Centralized event feed
  • Entity-centric monitoring
  • Automated Transaction Diagnostics
  • Push notifications for alerts
  • Integration with messaging tools
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With our reimagined AppDynamics mobile app you can: * Customize home screen to monitor your most important entities and metrics at a glance * View all events across entities and identify correlations through centralized event feed * See key monitoring data in detail with entity centric page and navigate between related entities with ease * Quickly identify potential root causes with Automated Transaction Diagnostics (ATD) support * Get alerted immediately for critical events through push notifications and seamless integration with messaging tools such as PagerDuty, Slack, SMS Note: this app requires active subscription credentials to AppDynamics product. This version only supports Application Performance Monitoring (APM). Please use the AppDynamics Classic mobile app for End-User Monitoring (EUM) and Server Infrastructure Monitoring (SIM) and Database Monitoring (DBMon). This app is designed for mobile phone use. About AppDynamics AppDynamics is an application performance management company that focuses on managing the performance and availability of applications across cloud computing environments as well as inside the data center. Specializing in complex, distributed environments, the company currently supports a wide range of different application platforms and languages, and offers both a Software-as-a-service or an on-premise deployment AppDynamics in the palm of your hand. View system performance and subscribe to push notifications so you only receive the alerts you need. Anytime. Anywhere.

Screenshots

New Relic4 screens
AppDynamics3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: AppDynamics at 100% against New Relic's 46%. AppDynamics also leads on rating (4.5 vs 3.9). New Relic's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 6 weeks) and ratings volume (72 vs 10). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

AppDynamics holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: New Relic has 72 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 46% of New Relic's written reviews are positive against 100% of AppDynamics's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

New Relic ships an update every 9 days, AppDynamics every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and June 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
New Relic versus AppDynamics: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNew RelicAppDynamics
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.9 (72 ratings)4.5 (10 ratings) — better
Positive reviews45.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings72 — better10
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size76 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNew Relic, Inc.AppDynamics

Customer experience

New Relic

All ratings72 ratings
Positive70.8%
Neutral4.2%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews162 reviews
Positive45.7%
Neutral8.6%
Negative45.7%

AppDynamics

All ratings10 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

New Relic

Reported bugs

24 issues
  • App crashes on startup or launch
  • Login screen hangs or freezes
  • Session expired errors in login loop
  • Constant unexpected logouts
  • SSO and SAML authentication broken
Show 19 more
  • Okta redirect not working in app
  • Face ID login loops infinitely
  • Graphs show 'No content to display'
  • Dashboard filters cleared when switching pages
  • Alerts and incidents show wrong status
  • Charts rendering incorrectly or unreliably
  • Data colors mislabeled in graphs
  • APM service click leads to stuck acknowledgement screen
  • Saved log views not accessible
  • App freezes when opening
  • Widget login requirement
  • Mobile data view stuck on loading
  • Sparklines frozen or stuck
  • Unresponsive UI on iPad Air 2
  • Cannot interact with app on iPad
  • Email verification link returns 404
  • Push notifications arriving in bursts
  • App doesn't work on iOS 7 and iOS 8
  • Layout failures on iPad in landscape mode

Requested features

19 requests
  • SSO and SAML login support
  • Saved log views on mobile app
  • Custom time picker for date ranges
  • Auto-refresh or pull-to-refresh functionality
  • OpenTelemetry data support
Show 14 more
  • Infrastructure and third-party tools monitoring
  • Synthetic transactions monitoring
  • Host metrics section
  • Ability to act on incidents from app
  • Custom alert sounds
  • Widget support for iOS
  • Drill-down into specific transactions and errors
  • Server-level application statistics
  • External services tab
  • Selective app alerting configuration
  • Network IO metrics in server summary
  • Increased device limit (more than 3 devices)
  • Improved graph y-axis scaling
  • Desktop link on mobile site

AppDynamics

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

New Relic

No in-app purchases

None

AppDynamics

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is New Relic free?
New Relic is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is AppDynamics free?
AppDynamics is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, New Relic or AppDynamics?
AppDynamics is rated higher. New Relic averages 3.9 out of 5 from 72 ratings, while AppDynamics averages 4.5 from 10 ratings.
Do New Relic or AppDynamics have ads?
Neither New Relic nor AppDynamics shows ads.
Which is updated more often, New Relic or AppDynamics?
New Relic ships an update every 9 days, and AppDynamics every 6 weeks. Most recently, New Relic was updated on September 30, 2026 and AppDynamics on June 10, 2026.

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