Comparison

ProbePad vs FEWS

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

FEWS

Monitor the real-time status of essential cloud services and infrastructure in one place. Get per-region filtering for major clouds and add custom status pages. Receive optional notifications for outages.

Highlights
  • Real-time status of selected services
  • Per-region filtering for AWS, GCP, Azure
  • Add custom Statuspage.io v2 endpoints
  • Drill into service incidents and timelines
  • Customizable dashboard with drag-to-reorder
  • 24-hour uptime sparkline
  • Home and lock screen widgets
Features
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FEWS — FALL Early Warning System See in one place whether the cloud services you depend on are up. Free, no ads, no account, no data collection. Built by an engineer, for engineers. Thirty-one providers across cloud, observability, devtools, CDN, AI, payments, data, auth, and communication — including the big three clouds with per-region filtering, version control, container registries, AI APIs, edge networks, and the infrastructure your stack depends on every day. Add your own status pages too — any Statuspage.io v2 endpoint works. WHAT FEWS DOES • One screen with the live status of every service you selected • Per-region filtering for AWS, GCP, and Azure — a Mumbai-only outage stops bubbling up as a service-wide red if you only run in us-east-1 • Add your own services from Settings — any Statuspage.io v2 endpoint, validated live before it lands • Drill into each service for active and recent incidents with the full timeline • Drag-to-reorder the dashboard • 24-hour uptime sparkline with computed operational and degraded durations • A local history of state changes — see what was down while you were not looking • Home screen and lock screen widgets so you can glance without unlocking • Opportunistic local notifications when iOS lets us refresh in the background WHAT FEWS DOES NOT DO • Polling in iOS background is unreliable by design — Apple decides when and whether to run it. FEWS is honest about that. For guaranteed current status, open the app. • No account. No analytics. No tracking. No ads. No backend. Now and forever. Made by FALL Engenharia. Proprietary software, distributed free under Apple's standard EULA. FEWS is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any monitored service. All brand names and marks belong to their respective owners.

Screenshots

ProbePad4 screens
FEWS4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: FEWS at none against ProbePad's 4. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. FEWS asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference Ā· 7 level
ProbePad versus FEWS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterProbePadFEWS
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOlof PettersonFILIPE AUGUSTO DA LUZ LEMOS

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

FEWS

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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