GitLabourer vs NativeLab
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GitLabourer
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Application for managing your Gitlab projects. Extend your work with Gitlab by searching projects, browsing files in your repositories, controlling pipelines, jobs and managing your merge requests.
NativeLab
This app provides a native mobile interface for managing GitLab projects, issues, and merge requests. It offers features like project browsing, issue triage, and merge request reviews with a clean, fast design. Users can customize themes, text sizes, and languages for a personalized experience.
- Browse GitLab projects with search
- Triage issues with filters
- Review merge requests with diff viewer
- Customizable themes and text sizes
- Supports gitlab.com and self-hosted instances
- Secure OAuth authentication
- Built-in demo mode
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NativeLab is a native GitLab client for iPhone. Review merge requests, follow pipelines, triage issues and clear your to-dos without fighting the mobile website. MERGE REQUESTS • Read the full diff with line numbers • Comment on any line, reply to threads and resolve them • Approve or unapprove, and merge (or merge when the pipeline succeeds) • Pipeline status, reviewers, approvals and merge blockers at a glance PIPELINES • Pipeline list per project with filters • Jobs grouped by stage: retry, cancel and play manual jobs • Live job logs with collapsible sections INBOX • Your GitLab to-do list: review requests, mentions, assignments, failed pipelines • Swipe to mark done • Optional background alerts and an app badge ISSUES • Filter by state and label • Markdown descriptions, task lists and images • Read and post comments MADE FOR YOUR PHONE • Opens instantly: data is cached on your device and refreshed in the background • Home Screen widget for review requests and failed pipelines • Face ID lock • Light and dark mode, three text sizes, six languages ANY GITLAB • gitlab.com with one-tap sign in • Self-hosted GitLab with a personal access token • Multiple accounts and instances • Try everything first in demo mode, no account needed PRIVATE BY DESIGN NativeLab talks directly to your GitLab. Tokens stay in the iOS Keychain on your device. No analytics, no NativeLab account. Free during launch.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: GitLabourer at every 4 days against NativeLab's every 4 months. NativeLab's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
GitLabourer ships an update every 4 days, NativeLab every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GitLabourer | NativeLab |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.5 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ackee | Altug Sogutoglu |
In-app purchases
GitLabourer
No in-app purchases
NativeLab
No in-app purchases
