Railway vs NeonLens
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Railway
Manage your entire cloud infrastructure from your mobile device. Monitor services, logs, metrics, and alerts, and control deployments and rollbacks on the go.
- Infrastructure in your pocket
- Service monitoring
- Log inspection
- Environment variable management
- Metrics and alerting
- Deployment control
- Roll-back releases
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Railway is the all-in-one intelligent cloud provider. Now your entire infrastructure is in your pocket, from services to logs, environment variables, metrics, and alerting. Whether you're at your desk or at your kid’s soccer game, Railway gives you full visibility and control over every service you run. Check deployment status, roll-back a broken release, or inspect resource usage without ever opening a laptop. Railway supports Hobby, Pro, and Enterprise plans. A free trial with $5 in credits is available for new users.
NeonLens
Manage your serverless Postgres databases on the go with this native iOS dashboard. Browse project lists, view branches and endpoints, and inspect table data with filtering and sorting. Unlock detailed analytics with a one-time purchase.
- Mobile Neon DB dashboard
- View project lists and compute status
- Browse branches, endpoints, and roles
- Table viewer with row data
- Filter, sort, and copy data
- Read-only access for data integrity
- Unlockable consumption analytics
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NeonLens is a native iOS app for managing your Neon databases on the go. If you use Neon for serverless Postgres, this gives you a proper mobile dashboard without the browser. Connect with your Neon API key and you get your full project list with live compute status. Drill into any project to see branches, endpoints, databases, and roles. The table viewer lets you browse actual row data directly from your phone, paginate through rows, filter columns, sort by any field, and copy values with a long press. The app is entirely read only so no worries about data integrity! Your API key is stored in the iOS Keychain and never leaves your device. No backend, no analytics, no accounts. Just you and the Neon API. Pro features (one-time purchase): Unlock detailed consumption analytics for your account. See daily compute hours charted across your billing period, storage and data transfer gauges with warning indicators when you're approaching limits, and a per-project breakdown sorted by usage so you know exactly what's eating your quota.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: NeonLens at 4.7 against Railway's 3.6. Railway's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and chart position (#37 vs unranked). On price, update cadence, ads 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
Both are free to download. NeonLens sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Railway asks for nothing beyond the download.
NeonLens holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 12 and 3 respectively.
Railway ships an update fortnightly, NeonLens every 4 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Railway | NeonLens |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (12 ratings) | 4.7 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 69.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 12 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #37 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 80 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | RailwayApp | Alexander Hurley |
Customer experience
Railway
NeonLens
In-app purchases
Railway
No in-app purchases
NeonLens
- NeonLens Pro$2.99









