Comparison

Ragnarr vs Backtick

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

Head to head
About

Ragnarr

Features
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Ragnarr is a native dashboard for managing your self-hosted services from one focused interface. Connect your media, monitoring and server stack, then keep the essentials in view: service status, recent activity, queues, storage usage, TV/movie library and pending media requests. Built for home setups and advanced homelabs, Ragnarr works with both local and remote addresses. Configure LAN/WAN access, test your connections and let the app use the best available route. Key features: - Unified dashboard for your services - TV and movie library with search, sorting and media detail pages - Media request tracking with available and pending states - Service monitoring, queues, errors, storage and recent activity - Local or remote connectivity depending on your network - Simple setup, demo mode, themes and haptic feedback - Secrets stored in the secure system keychain Integrations depend on your configuration: Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, Bazarr, Prowlarr, Tautulli, Jellyfin, Emby, qBt, SABnzbd, Portainer, Unraid and compatible Seerr services. Ragnarr does not provide any content, catalog, video stream or file. The app only displays data from your own configured services. Ragnarr starts free with two configured services. Ragnarr Pro lets you connect more services and access future Pro improvements. Terms of Use: https://ragnarr.app/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://ragnarr.app/privacy/ Ragnarr is an independent tool and is not affiliated with the third-party services mentioned.

About

Backtick

Transform your home and lock screens into a functional terminal. Display real-time data like calendar events, weather, and system status, or integrate with your GitHub and focus sessions. Customize with various themes and interactive widgets.

Highlights
  • Functional terminal display
  • Live data integration (calendar, weather, GitHub)
  • Full-page and console widgets
  • Interactive widgets with tap actions
  • Customizable themes
  • Lock screen and StandBy support
  • Shortcuts and Siri integration
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Backtick turns your home and lock screen into a terminal. Not a picture of one — a working one. Panels drawn with hairline rules, a tab bar you actually tap, a cursor that genuinely blinks, and your real life inside it: calendar, reminders, weather, steps, battery — and now your GitHub, your focus sessions and anything your automations want to say. FULL-PAGE WIDGETS (iOS 27) The Terminal fills an entire home screen page — now, next up, tasks, weather and system as one live session. The Console goes full page too, with bit idling above the menu. THE WIDGETS — 35 OF THEM • Terminal — five panels switched by tapping tabs on the widget; small, medium, large and full page • Console — a navigable menu: arrows move, enter selects, esc backs out, without opening an app • git log — your GitHub contribution graph, streak and recent activity • focus — one tap starts a timer, with a Live Activity on your lock screen and Dynamic Island • curl — any number from a JSON endpoint you choose, with a sparkline of recent values • echo — shows whatever you send it from Shortcuts; build automations that write to your home and lock screen • Weather — current, hourly and forecast; the small one pages when you tap it • Clock — a live 7-segment face with ticking seconds, zero battery cost, 12h or 24h • Countdown — days to a date you pick; ticks live on the final day, counts up after • Daylight — sunrise to sunset as a gauge, golden hour, light left • Year Progress — every day of the year as a dot; watch it fill • Elapsed — day, week, month and year as block gauges • Month — the full month with event markers • Timeline — upcoming events with durations drawn to scale • Steps — today's count and distance, with the week as bars • Disk — storage as a block gauge • Moon — tonight's phase as a dot matrix • motd — a daily line from bit, free • bit — a resident terminal creature. It has moods, it types little lines, its heartbeat blinks, and it reacts when you poke it. Bond over time. LOCK SCREEN Nine rectangular widgets (next up, tasks, weather, forecast, hourly, elapsed, battery, daylight, echo), six circular gauges, and inline status lines. STANDBY Charge your phone on its side and the Terminal, Weather, Clock and bit widgets switch to big, glanceable layouts you can read from across the room. THEMES Six full terminal palettes — Dracula, Gruvbox, Nord, Solarized, Catppuccin and Tokyo Night — or classic true black with one of five accent phosphors. Every widget follows instantly. SHORTCUTS, SIRI & CONTROL CENTER • "Set Backtick Message" puts any text on the echo widgets — when you arrive at work, when your battery runs low, whenever • Start or stop a focus session from Siri, Shortcuts or Control Center • Tick your top task, poke bit, or jump to your agenda from Control Center or the Action button BUILT LIKE A TOOL • Tick reminders off from the widget — writes straight to Apple Reminders • Tap a section to open YOUR apps: choose which calendar, reminders and weather apps widget taps launch • Battery, weather and steps refresh in the background through the day • Live clocks, countdowns and a blinking cursor with zero widget refreshes • True black. Made for OLED and dark home screens. PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION • No account, no sign-in, no Backtick server — there isn't one • Calendar, reminders, steps and device stats are read on-device via Apple's frameworks • Weather comes from Apple Weather using your approximate location • git log and curl talk only to the addresses you give them; an optional GitHub token stays in your phone's keychain • Nothing is collected. There is nowhere to collect it to. FREE / PRO The Terminal widget, Next Up, the inline status line, motd and the classic amber theme are free forever. One purchase unlocks everything else — every widget, every palette — no subscription, no upsell treadmill. — Privacy policy: https://backtick.app/privacy.html Terms of use: https://backtick.app/terms.html

Screenshots

Ragnarr3 screens
Backtick4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Backtick at weekly against Ragnarr's monthly. Backtick also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Ragnarr sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Backtick sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ragnarr ships an update monthly, Backtick weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Ragnarr versus Backtick: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRagnarrBacktick
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—4 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCyrille DumortierElvis Mederos

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Ragnarr

Subscriptions2
  • Ragnarr Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Ragnarr Pro Annual$17.991 Year
One-time1
  • Ragnarr Pro Lifetime$22.99
1 purchases

Backtick

One-time1
  • Pro$4.99

Questions

Is Ragnarr free?
Ragnarr is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Backtick free?
Backtick is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Ragnarr or Backtick have ads?
Neither Ragnarr nor Backtick shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Ragnarr or Backtick?
Ragnarr ships an update monthly, and Backtick weekly. Most recently, Ragnarr was updated on October 10, 2026 and Backtick on October 13, 2026.

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