Comparison

ProbePad vs Prompt Central

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

Head to head
About

ProbePad

Features
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ProbePad is the API client Postman never built for iPhone and iPad — native, private, and fast enough to ship a production fix from the couch. New in v1.6: ProbePad watches your endpoints while you sleep — background health checks with failure alerts, status widgets on your Home and Lock Screen, Spotlight search, and one-tap cancellation. ENDPOINT MONITORING (PRO) • Mark any saved request as watched and ProbePad runs it in the background • A notification when a watched endpoint starts failing, with the request name and the status it returned • A cooldown per endpoint, so a flapping service does not alert you over and over • iOS decides when background work is granted. ProbePad tells you when the last check happened, never when the next one will • If Background App Refresh is off, the app says so plainly WIDGETS — HOME SCREEN AND LOCK SCREEN • Last Request — your most recent run, with its status and when it ran • Request Status — a saved request's last status and response time. Also a Lock Screen circular widget • Endpoint Monitor (PRO) — a watched endpoint's last result, and when it was checked • A widget sees a summary only: request name, host, status, timing. Never a header, a body or a token SPOTLIGHT, SIRI AND SHORTCUTS • Request names and hosts are searchable from the Home Screen — tap a result to open it • Indexing is a switch in Settings, and secrets and environment values are never indexed • "Run Saved Request" and "Send HTTP Request" App Intents for Siri, the Shortcuts app and Focus automations • The Shortcuts result carries the request, the status and the timing CANCEL A RUNNING REQUEST • One tap stops an in-flight request and tears the connection down • The cancelled attempt is written to history, not lost ON CALL, INSIDE THE RESPONSE • Find in the response body, with a live match count and wrapping next/previous — even on truncated bodies • Copy a single header value without selecting text • Replay a returned Set-Cookie as a request header, in one tap • History rows are tagged with the environment they ran against, and a cross-environment diff warns you first BUILD & EXECUTE • GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE with full header, query and body control • Multipart/form-data with file upload • JSON, raw and form-encoded bodies • Per-request timeout (1–300 s) ORGANIZE • Collections — group related requests, colour-coded (free) • Environments and variables — switch between dev, staging and production (PRO) • Secrets Vault — API keys in the iOS Keychain, Face ID or Touch ID (PRO) INSPECT • Syntax-highlighted JSON tree • Response history with side-by-side diff (free) • Status, headers, timing and byte count AUTHENTICATION • Bearer token, Basic, API key (header or query) • OAuth 2.0 authorization code with PKCE, and client credentials (PRO) • Automatic token refresh, Keychain storage • Provider presets: Google, GitHub, Azure AD, Auth0 • JWT inspection GRAPHQL & WEBSOCKET (PRO) • GraphQL editor with schema introspection, variables and named operations • ws:// and wss:// sessions with text and binary frames, a full transcript and auto-reconnect IMPORT • cURL — paste a command and get a request. Free, and staying free • Postman v2.1 collections, OpenAPI 3.0 and Swagger 2.0 (PRO) PROBEPAD PRO Lifetime is a one-time purchase (US$19.99). Yearly is US$9.99 per year after a seven-day free trial and renews automatically until you cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Prices for your region are shown in the app. Bought ProbePad before v1.6? You keep PRO forever, at no charge, including everything in this release — nothing to buy, nothing to do. PRIVACY-FIRST • All your data stays on your device • No analytics, no third-party SDKs, no advertising identifier, no telemetry • PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy declares everything the app touches • Secrets live in the iOS Keychain, never in plain text Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Prompt Central

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Your AI agents keep working. Now you can keep watching — from your iPad, iPhone, or Mac. Prompt Central is a native command center for monitoring and managing AI coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI. Run persistent sessions on your Mac, then check in from any device on your network. NO MORE LOSING TRACK Running multiple agents across different projects? Prompt Central gives you one sidebar with every session, so you always know what's happening. See live terminal output, agent state, context usage, and tool activity — all at a glance. MONITOR IN REAL TIME • Live terminal • AI agent state: working, idle, or waiting for input • Context window usage percentage • Current tool beingexecuted • CPU and memory monitoring • Git status and live diffs WORK FROM ANYWHERE ON YOUR NETWORK Step away from your desk without losing control. Your sessions persist through tmux, so they keep running even when you disconnect. Pick up where you left off from your couch, a meeting, or across the room. BUILT FOR DEVELOPERS WHO USE AI AGENTS • Run Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, or any shell command • Create sessions organized by project • Voice dictation for terminal input • Built-in browser for previewing dev servers • Auto-restart crashed sessions • Stop scripts for graceful shutdown SECURE BY DEFAULT Everything stays on your local network. No cloud servers. No accounts. No telemetry. Connect with a QR code scan — auto-generated TLS certificates and JWT authentication keep everything locked down without any configuration. SETUP IN UNDER 5 MINUTES 1. Install the companion app on your Mac 2. Scan the QR code from your iPad or iPhone 3. Start creating sessions No SSH keys. No port forwarding. No manual config.

Screenshots

ProbePad4 screens
Prompt Central4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Prompt Central at none against ProbePad's 4. ProbePad's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.2). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. ProbePad sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year. Prompt Central asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
ProbePad versus Prompt Central: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterProbePadPrompt Central
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.2
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOlof PettersonPolarity Labs Pte. Ltd.

In-app purchases

4 purchases

ProbePad

Subscriptions1
  • ProbePad PRO Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time3
  • ProbePad PRO$5.99
  • ProbePad PRO Lifetime (Launch)$9.99
  • ProbePad PRO Lifetime$19.99
None

Prompt Central

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ProbePad free?
ProbePad is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Prompt Central free?
Prompt Central is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ProbePad or Prompt Central have ads?
Neither ProbePad nor Prompt Central shows ads.

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