Comparison

Grafium vs Tapproval

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

Head to head
About

Grafium

Features
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Grafium opens the dashboards and alerts from your self-hosted Grafana® on iPhone. Panels are drawn with native iOS charts, and the app only reads data: it never edits your dashboards or alert rules. • Time series, stat, gauge, bar chart, table, heatmap, logs, state timeline, geomap and other panels keep the colors, units and thresholds from the dashboard. • Change dashboard variables, pick a time range and turn on auto-refresh. • Open a panel full screen and drag across the chart to read exact values. • See firing and pending alert rules first, with their instances and labels, and open the panel behind an alert. • Pin the dashboards you check often and search across folders. • Add several servers. Sign in with an API token, username and password, LDAP, JWT, auth proxy or SSO, or connect anonymously. GRAFIUM PRO • Instant Alerts: a Time Sensitive notification the moment an alert fires, quietly replaced when it resolves. Needs Grafana 12 or later; one tap sets up the Grafium contact point on your server. • Widgets: a panel's value or chart and your firing alerts on the Home Screen, the Lock Screen and in StandBy, plus a Grafium Alerts button in Control Center. Widgets refresh about every 15–60 minutes, as iOS allows, and always show when they were last updated. Grafium Pro is an auto-renewable subscription, monthly or annual, with a free trial for new subscribers. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://znhv.dev/grafium/terms Privacy Policy: https://znhv.dev/grafium/privacy Grafium has no account of its own, no tracking and no ads. Tokens and passwords stay in the iOS Keychain, and showing a saved one takes Face ID or your passcode. To look around first, tap Try Demo on the first screen. It connects to a public demo server with live dashboards and alerts. Requires Grafana 9 or later, reachable over HTTPS with a trusted certificate. Self-signed certificates are not supported. The Grafana Labs Marks are trademarks of Grafana Labs, and are used with Grafana Labs’ permission. We are not affiliated with, endorsed or sponsored by Grafana Labs or its affiliates.

About

Tapproval

Features
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Tapproval is for Claude Code: a remote control for it on your Apple Watch. When the agent working on your computer asks permission — run this command? change this file? — the question lands on your wrist, in the session that asked, and a tap answers it. No phone out of the pocket, no walk back to the desk. Made for vibe coding: start Claude Code on a task, walk away, and keep it going from your wrist — on the sofa, on a walk, or in a meeting. WHAT IT DOES • Approve or deny in the session that asked, right under its conversation, or, for lower-risk prompts, straight from the alert • Answer Claude's questions and plans with the same choices as on your computer, picking more than one where Claude allows it • Your sessions are the first screen, live and grouped by what they need: which one needs a tap, which one is working, and the project each belongs to • Read the conversation the way your phone shows it, with bold, lists and plans laid out, and reply from the watch: "Proceed", "What's left?", "/code-review", or anything you dictate • Send a message and it reaches the session open on your Mac: its terminal and the Claude app on your phone show it, with the answer. What you type there shows on the watch too • With the app closed, the watch still buzzes for a card from a Mac, through your own iCloud • See your day: what was handled without you, and what you decided NOTHING TO CONFIGURE The watch finds your computer by itself — on your home Wi-Fi, or away from home through a private travel address. No account, no server of ours: your prompts and conversations stay on your own machines and in your own iCloud. WHAT YOU NEED A computer running Claude Code (any Mac or Linux machine) with the free, open-source helper installed — one command, then forget it. Curious first? The built-in demo shows the whole flow without any setup. Your first 100 answers are free. After that, one purchase of $5 unlocks unlimited answers for good. There is no subscription and no account. Reading sessions and the day's activity stays free, and a prompt you don't answer from the wrist still appears on your computer as usual, so nothing is ever blocked. An optional $1 coffee for the developer is there too.

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Tapproval at every 2 days against Grafium's every 3 weeks. Tapproval also leads on device support (4 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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. Grafium sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Tapproval sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Grafium ships an update every 3 weeks, Tapproval every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 3 level
Grafium versus Tapproval: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGrafiumTapproval
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS26.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBoris ZhenikhovMarc Dines

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Grafium

Subscriptions2
  • Grafium Pro Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Grafium Pro Annual14 Days trial$29.991 Year
2 purchases

Tapproval

One-time2
  • Coffee for the developer$1.00
  • Unlock Forever$5.00

Questions

Is Grafium free?
Grafium is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tapproval free?
Tapproval is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Grafium or Tapproval have ads?
Neither Grafium nor Tapproval shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Grafium or Tapproval?
Grafium ships an update every 3 weeks, and Tapproval every 2 days. Most recently, Grafium was updated on October 30, 2026 and Tapproval on October 31, 2026.

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