Comparison

New Relic vs Splunk On

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

Splunk On

This app is a collaboration and incident management platform for on-call DevOps teams. It enhances situational awareness and expedites incident resolution with tools for passive expert engagement, improving system uptime and team quality of life.

Highlights
  • Live Timeline of monitoring data
  • Incident alerts via push, SMS, email, phone
  • Acknowledge and resolve incidents from mobile
  • Chat about issues and contribute insights
  • Swap on-call shifts easily
  • View next on-call information
  • Capture resolution details
Features
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Splunk On-Call is a collaboration and incident management platform for on-call DevOps teams. Through a combination of increased situational awareness for all team members and tools that encourage passive engagement from relevant experts, Splunk On-Call expedites incident resolution while improving quality of life for the individuals who keep systems running 24x7. Designed to work in conjunction with the Splunk On-Call service, the iOS application allows on call DevOps teams to: *View a live Timeline of monitoring data that provides ongoing status updates, not just alerts when something goes wrong *Be alerted of Incidents via push notification, SMS, email or phone call *View, Acknowledge and Resolve incidents in your monitoring system from your mobile device *Acknowledge and Resolve incidents directly from push notifications without launching app *View contact information and team member presence directly in the application *Chat about issues and contribute insights, even if you’re not on call *Swap on-call with the click of a button *Next on-call information readily available within the app, and using our Today Widget. *Capture resolution details to expedite future remediation and build team intelligence around healthy system behavior *Universal app works on iPad and iPhone A Splunk On-Call account is required to use this application.

Screenshots

New Relic4 screens
Splunk On4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: New Relic at 3.9 against Splunk On's 2.5. New Relic also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 6 weeks) and review sentiment (46% vs 27%). 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

New Relic holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: New Relic has 76 ratings behind it against 15, 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 27% of Splunk On's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

New Relic ships an update every 10 days, Splunk On every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
New Relic versus Splunk On: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNew RelicSplunk On
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.9 (76 ratings) — better2.5 (15 ratings)
Positive reviews45.7% of reviews — better27.3% of reviews
Number of ratings76 — better15
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size76 MB69 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNew Relic, Inc.VictorOps, Inc.

Customer experience

New Relic

All ratings75 ratings
Positive72.0%
Neutral4.0%
Negative24.0%
Written reviews162 reviews
Positive45.7%
Neutral8.6%
Negative45.7%

Splunk On

All ratings15 ratings
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%
Written reviews55 reviews
Positive27.3%
Neutral10.9%
Negative61.8%

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

Splunk On

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

New Relic

No in-app purchases

None

Splunk On

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is New Relic free?
New Relic is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Splunk On free?
Splunk On is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, New Relic or Splunk On?
New Relic is rated higher. New Relic averages 3.9 out of 5 from 76 ratings, while Splunk On averages 2.5 from 15 ratings.
Do New Relic or Splunk On have ads?
Neither New Relic nor Splunk On shows ads.
Which is updated more often, New Relic or Splunk On?
New Relic ships an update every 10 days, and Splunk On every 6 weeks. Most recently, New Relic was updated on October 23, 2026 and Splunk On on October 24, 2026.

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