Comparison

StatusDrift vs Semaphore Remote

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

Head to head
About

StatusDrift

Features
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StatusDrift keeps a close eye on your websites, APIs and infrastructure so you hear about problems before your users do. Set up a monitor in seconds, pick a check interval, and StatusDrift will ping your endpoints from multiple regions around the clock. The moment something drifts - a slow response, a failed request, a certificate about to expire - you get notified and a new incident is opened automatically. Monitor anything that speaks a protocol: - HTTP and HTTPS checks with status code, header and keyword assertions - Ping and TCP port checks for servers and services - SSL/TLS certificate expiry monitoring - Keyword monitoring to catch silent failures and broken deploys - Multi-region checks so you can tell a real outage from a regional blip Every incident page shows a timeline of what happened, which regions were affected, how long it lasted and the response of each check along the way. Mark incidents as investigating, identified, monitoring or resolved and keep your team in sync. Plan maintenance windows ahead of time so alerts stay quiet and your status page communicates exactly what's going on. No more 3 a.m. pages for a planned database migration. The home dashboard gives you a live rollup of everything you're watching - total monitors, how many are up, down, warning, paused or with certificate issues - plus your most recent incidents in one place. Each monitor comes with a response time trend chart covering the last hour, day, week or month, with average, min and max broken out per region so you can spot slow drifts long before they turn into outages. Organise monitors into groups by service, team or environment. Development, staging and production each get their own color-coded badge, so you always know what you're looking at. Instant push notifications directly on your phone Who it's for: Developers, SREs, DevOps engineers, indie hackers and small teams who want serious uptime monitoring without a seven-figure observability stack. If you own a website, an API or a handful of services and you want to catch problems before your customers tweet about them, StatusDrift is for you. Install StatusDrift and catch the drift before your users catch it.

About

Semaphore Remote

Features
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Semaphore Remote is an app for users who manage automation with Semaphore UI and need quick access to their tasks from a mobile device. Connect directly to your Semaphore server using a personal API token, browse projects and templates, launch new executions, monitor running tasks, and read raw task output when something needs attention. The app is designed for DevOps workflows where speed and simplicity matter. You can open a project, review available templates, start a run, force an execution when needed, check recent tasks, follow active jobs, and quickly jump to fatal messages, errors, warnings, or the last line of a log. Key features: β€’ Connect to Semaphore UI using a personal API token β€’ Browse projects, templates, and task history β€’ Launch tasks from templates β€’ Force task runs when needed β€’ Monitor running, waiting, and pending tasks β€’ Receive local notifications when monitored tasks finish β€’ Read raw task output with line numbers β€’ Search inside logs β€’ Jump quickly to fatal, error, warning, or last-line matches β€’ Share task logs as text files β€’ Supports English and Italian Semaphore Remote does not require an external account and does not use tracking, analytics, or advertising. The app communicates only with the Semaphore server configured by the user. The server URL and API token are stored locally on the device and used only to authenticate requests to your Semaphore UI instance. Note: Semaphore Remote is intended as a mobile companion tool for quick checks and interventions. Local notifications depend on system background behavior and are not a replacement for server-side alerting.

Screenshots

StatusDrift4 screens
Semaphore Remote4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: StatusDrift at 17.0 against Semaphore Remote's 26.5. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

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

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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference Β· 5 level
StatusDrift versus Semaphore Remote: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStatusDriftSemaphore Remote
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyβ€”Every 2 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.0 β€” better26.5
Further details β€” not scored
Size7 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMiljenko RebernisakAlessandro Iannacone

In-app purchases

None

StatusDrift

No in-app purchases

None

Semaphore Remote

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is StatusDrift free?
StatusDrift is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Semaphore Remote free?
Semaphore Remote is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do StatusDrift or Semaphore Remote have ads?
Neither StatusDrift nor Semaphore Remote shows ads.

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