Comparison

Grafium vs Monkeytail

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 opens sample dashboards and alerts built into the app, with no server needed. Requires Grafana 9 or later. Works with Grafana Cloud and with self-hosted servers over HTTPS or HTTP, including servers with a certificate from your own certificate authority. 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

Monkeytail

Features
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Monkeytail is a native API client and request debugger for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Vision Pro, with a compact Apple Watch companion for favourite requests. No Monkeytail account or sign-in. • Organise workspaces, each with its own collections, environments and globals, in a sidebar tree of nested folders. Move requests and folders by dragging them. • Import cURL, Postman, Insomnia, Bruno, Hoppscotch, Thunder Client, HAR, .http files and OpenAPI or Swagger JSON/YAML. • Share headers, authentication, variables and scripts across folders. Postman-style pm scripts and tests run unchanged, with CryptoJS, lodash and moment. • Use OAuth 2.0 with PKCE, OAuth 1.0, JWT, Digest, API keys, Basic, Bearer and AWS Signature V4. • Run whole collections with data files and export reports. Generate client code in 13 languages. • Edit GraphQL queries and variables, and inspect WebSocket and SSE messages. • Format JSON, browse a tree, search, check responses with visual tests, and preview images, audio, video, hex or binary data. • Save and compare responses, create offline mocks, and manage cookies and client certificates. Inspect timings, redirects and TLS details. • Choose a theme, your own light and dark colours, and interface and code fonts. • Use Monkeytail in English, Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean or Simplified Chinese. • Sync with iCloud Drive and choose proxies. Browser TLS and HTTP/2 profiles are available on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Free, with no in-app purchases, analytics, tracking or data collection by Kitta Co. Requests go to servers and proxies you choose. Keychain storage is optional, and you choose whether credentials join iCloud sync. Cookies, client certificates and upload files stay on your device. Requires iOS 17 or macOS 14 or later. Client certificate import on Mac requires macOS 15.

Screenshots

Grafium4 screens
Monkeytail4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Monkeytail at none against Grafium's 2. Monkeytail also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks) and device support (5 vs 1). On price and ads 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. Monkeytail asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Grafium ships an update every 2 weeks, Monkeytail every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 13, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 2 level
Grafium versus Monkeytail: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGrafiumMonkeytail
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBoris ZhenikhovKitta Co.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Grafium

Subscriptions2
  • Grafium Pro Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Grafium Pro Annual14 Days trial$29.991 Year
None

Monkeytail

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Grafium free?
Grafium is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Monkeytail free?
Monkeytail is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Grafium or Monkeytail have ads?
Neither Grafium nor Monkeytail shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Grafium or Monkeytail?
Grafium ships an update every 2 weeks, and Monkeytail every 4 days. Most recently, Grafium was updated on November 13, 2026 and Monkeytail on November 11, 2026.

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