Astropad Workbench vs Steady
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Astropad Workbench
Access and control your Mac remotely from your iPhone or iPad. Manage your machine, run desktop applications, and monitor tasks from anywhere with a high-performance, secure connection.
- Real-time Mac control
- Voice dictation to Mac
- Unified multi-display workspace
- Apple Pencil cursor control
- Hassle-free network connections
- End-to-end encrypted sessions
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Access and control your Mac from anywhere. Workbench is a high-performance remote desktop that lets you connect to your Mac from your iPhone or iPad. Manage your machine, run desktop apps, and check in on long-running tasks while away from your desk. Built by the team behind Astropad Studio and Luna Display, Workbench delivers fast, responsive control with crisp visual and reliable performance across all networks. ————— KEY FEATURES Fast, high-fidelity streamlining. Interact with your Mac in real time with responsive controls and sharp visuals. Voice input. Dictate text from your iPhone or iPad and send it directly to your Mac. Unified display. Consolidate multi-display setups into a single workspace that conforms to the resolution of your mobile device. Apple Pencil support. Use your Apple Pencil like a mouse for precise cursor control when interacting with Mac apps. No-hassle connections. Connect instantly without complicated router/network configurations, port forwarding, or manual setup. Secure by design. Astropad doesn’t capture your screen or track your activity, and sessions are secured by modern end-to-end encryption standards. ————— BUILT FOR REMOTE WORKFLOWS Workbench makes it easy to stay connected to your Mac wherever you are. Monitor running processes, access files, manage remote systems, or check in on tools and software that doesn’t have a mobile app. ————— PRICING Workbench includes a Free plan with 30 minutes of access per day. Upgrade to Unlimited for uninterrupted access (subscription required). ————— SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS Mac: macOS 15 or later iPhone: iOS 26 or later iPad: iPadOS 26 or later
Steady
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Your weight moves two kilos in a day. Salt, water, what you had for dinner. If you're actually losing fat, you're losing about 400 grams a week. Five times smaller than the noise sitting on top of it. Every other weight app draws that noise and leaves the filtering to you. You did everything right, the number went up, and you talk yourself out of it. That's where people quit. Steady filters. Drag a ruler to your weight, it goes into Apple Health, and you see one smoothed line. THE LINE An exponentially weighted moving average over your whole history. A 1.5 kg salt spike moves the line by 0.27 kg and fades. The reading shows up as a dot well off the line. The line barely notices. Week charts fit a straight line through seven readings, because over seven points smoothing still wobbles and tells you nothing. Year charts smooth weekly averages a second time. TWO SCREENS Log is a ruler you drag. It clicks every 100 grams and starts where you were yesterday. No keypad, no picker wheel. Trend is one chart and four figures: today, yesterday, your seven-day average, and your change per week. The trend gets the big number. Today's reading doesn't. The daily number is the noise. NOT IN IT No account. No subscription. No ads. No streaks, no badges, no notifications. No settings, because units and appearance follow your phone. No green for down and no red for up, because colour-coding a measurement turns it into a verdict. YOUR DATA Your weight lives in Apple Health and nowhere else. No server, no analytics, no network code of any kind. Steady works in airplane mode, permanently. We can't see your weight. Neither can Apple. SHORTCUTS Put the log screen on your Home Screen, Lock Screen or Action Button. Or write a reading from a Shortcut without opening the app. Made by Levo Studio.
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Verdict
Astropad Workbench and Steady are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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.
| Parameter | Astropad Workbench | Steady |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (177 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 58.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 177 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Astro HQ | Julius Grimm |
In-app purchases
Astropad Workbench
No in-app purchases
Steady
No in-app purchases









