GrafLens vs ompanion
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GrafLens
Access and monitor your Grafana dashboards on the go with this open-source iOS viewer. Connect to any Grafana instance to browse dashboards, view panels, manage alerts, and add annotations. Features include home screen widgets and Siri shortcuts for quick access.
- Connect to any Grafana instance
- Browse dashboards with full-text search
- View panels with configurable time ranges
- Monitor firing alerts and create silences
- Add annotations and generate snapshots
- Home screen widgets for quick panel access
- Siri shortcuts for instant alert status
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GrafLens is a free, open-source native iOS viewer for Grafana dashboards. Connect to any Grafana instance and monitor your infrastructure on the go — no ads, no tracking, no account required. KEY FEATURES • Connect to any Grafana instance using a service account token • Browse dashboards organized by folder with full-text search • View panels with configurable time ranges from 5 minutes to 30 days • Monitor firing alerts and create silences for maintenance windows • Add annotations to mark deployments, incidents, and events • Generate shareable dashboard snapshots • Manage folders and playlists from your phone • Edit dashboard metadata (title, description, tags) on the go • Multiple server connections — switch between Grafana instances instantly • Star your favorite dashboards for one-tap access • Recently viewed dashboards always at your fingertips • OIDC/OAuth support (Authentik, Okta, Google, etc.) HOME SCREEN WIDGETS Pin any specific Grafana panel from any dashboard directly to your iOS home screen. Configure widget size (small, medium, large) and time range. Updates automatically every 15 minutes. SIRI SHORTCUTS Ask Siri "Check GrafLens alerts" to instantly see how many alerts are firing without opening the app. Perfect for on-call engineers who need at-a-glance status. SPOTLIGHT SEARCH GrafLens indexes your dashboards in iOS Spotlight. Search for any dashboard from your home screen and tap to jump straight in. PRIVACY FIRST GrafLens does not collect, transmit, or store any personal information on remote servers. The app communicates only with the Grafana instance you configure. There is no analytics, no telemetry, no advertising, and no third-party SDKs. Your service account token and connection details are stored locally on your device only. OPEN SOURCE GrafLens is fully open source under the MIT license. Review the complete source code, file issues, or contribute features at github.com/whitematter-tech/graflens PERFECT FOR • DevOps engineers monitoring infrastructure • SRE teams tracking service health • On-call engineers responding to incidents • Developers checking application metrics • Anyone who wants Grafana on their phone GrafLens is developed and maintained by WhiteMatterTech in coordination with the open source community. For support, feature requests, or to report bugs, visit our GitHub repository or contact us at support@whitematter.tech
ompanion
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ompanion is a client for omp, the open-source oh-my-pi coding agent. omp normally runs in a terminal on your own machine; ompanion drives it over SSH from your iPhone or iPad, with no daemon installed on that machine. On iPhone and iPad ompanion is SSH-only: it connects to a computer you own and control. What you need - A machine you can reach over SSH: macOS, Linux or Windows. - omp 18.3.1 or newer on it. If omp is missing, ompanion installs it on that machine, or shows you the commands to run yourself. - AI model access from your own provider accounts, configured in omp on that machine. ompanion ships no servers, no accounts, no model of its own. Chat - Streaming transcript with markdown, LaTeX math, highlighted code, collapsible thinking and images - Finished turns fold their thinking, tool calls and interim messages under a one-line summary - Steer the running turn or queue a follow-up, and edit or remove queued messages - Slash commands from the session's own command list, model and thinking-level pickers, and a context and cost meter - Pause and resume every agent of a session; Stop aborts the run and restores queued messages - Attach files by picking them, or paste images; images go to the model, files reach omp as mentions it reads on the machine - Copy messages and code, and branch from any of your messages Tools and approvals - Tool cards for shell, read, edit and write with word-level diffs, eval, todo, task, web search and fetch - Tool approvals answered inline; the ask tool as a form with several questions, previews and your own answers - Extension dialogs, status lines and toasts; files named in tool cards open in the Files panel Sessions - Every session on a machine, grouped by project and across omp profiles, marked working, waiting for input or unread - Search sessions across your machines by title or project path - Resume any session on the machine, including ones from omp's terminal UI (read-only while that omp still has it open) - Session tree with search, filters, labels, branching and an optional model-written summary - Several of your devices on one live session: each sees what the others send, and the first answer settles the dialog everywhere Machines - Any SSH host, including hosts behind a chain of jump hosts - No daemon: it runs stock omp, and uploads a small companion extension for what omp's RPC lacks - Sessions run detached on the machine, so a dropped connection or a locked phone does not stop the turn - Key, password and keyboard-interactive SSH authentication, with host-key checks on every hop - Each machine is probed, and omp is installed on it with a checksum check - Generate Ed25519 keys or import your own; private keys stay in the platform's secure storage Files, terminal and configuration - Files: browse, create, rename and delete; an editor with find and replace; git status and diffs - Terminal tabs on the machine, over SSH - Agent Hub: subagent roster with progress, tokens and cost, each agent's transcript, steer, kill, revive - Todos by phase, and compactions shown with their summary and file lists - Settings from omp's own schema, model roles, providers, MCP servers, plugins, skills, and stats - Usage: subscription limits from every online machine, with reset times and account priority - Monochrome, flat design with an OLED-black dark theme and a light theme; on an iPad in landscape, machines, chat and tools sit side by side Privacy - No accounts, no analytics, no crash reporting, no ads, no tracking - Your data stays on your device or goes over SSH to your own machines; the app reaches GitHub only to download omp for a machine, and a web image in a reply only when you tap it - Prompts go to omp on your machine, which calls the providers you configured there, under their policies - Private keys and passwords are kept in the platform's secure storage ompanion is open source (GPLv3): github.com/edde746/ompanion
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: GrafLens at Free against ompanion's $4.99. ompanion's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On ads and device support 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
GrafLens is free to download; ompanion costs $4.99 up front. GrafLens sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. ompanion asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | GrafLens | ompanion |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | WhiteMatter Technology, LLC | Edvard Wikhall |
In-app purchases
GrafLens
- Coffee$2.99
- Lunch$5.99
- Dinner$9.99
ompanion
No in-app purchases









