Docker Manager vs Ergo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Docker Manager
Remotely manage Docker environments from your phone. Control containers, deploy Compose stacks, view live logs, and access a terminal, all secured with biometrics. Ideal for homelabs, VPS, and enterprise servers.
- Remote Docker management
- SSH and Engine API support
- Container lifecycle control
- Live stats and dashboard
- Integrated terminal
- Docker Compose management
- Biometric security
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Control Docker on your own servers from your phone, over plain SSH or the Docker Engine API. Nothing to install on the server: no agent, no web panel. CONTAINERS • Start, stop, restart, pause, rename, set CPU and memory limits • Live CPU, memory, network and disk stats • Logs with a time range, shareable as a text file • Terminal and file manager inside any container COMPOSE STACKS • Deploy, edit and update stacks with one tap • Per-service scale, restart and logs • Edit a stack's .env with an automatic backup IMAGES, VOLUMES & NETWORKS • Pull, inspect and prune with a preview of what will be deleted • Vulnerability scan for any image (uses Trivy or Grype) • Disk usage breakdown, volume backup and restore • Connect and disconnect containers from networks MONITOR & PROTECT • Dashboard for every host, plus a Docker event log • Optional alerts when a container stops or an endpoint goes down • Home-screen widgets • Face ID / fingerprint lock, SSH host-key pinning, credentials kept in secure storage • Security review of privileged containers and exposed ports Free to use, with optional supporter purchases. Docker and the Docker logo are trademarks of Docker, Inc. This app is an independent product and is not affiliated with, sponsored or endorsed by Docker, Inc.
Ergo
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Ergo for iPhone and iPad is the on-call companion to Ergo for Mac: the cluster you were reading at your desk, in your pocket, read-only on purpose. CONFIGURE ON THE MAC, VIEW ON THE PHONE There is no setup screen. Turn on iCloud sync in Ergo on your Mac and your clusters appear here — names, endpoints and environment tiers travel through your own iCloud account. Credentials never do: they stay in the Keychain of the device that created them, so a synced cluster asks you to sign in once here, through your provider's own page. WHAT IT SHOWS A health ring that counts the pods actually serving, not the pods that exist. A "needs attention" list that names what is unhealthy right now and quotes the cluster's own event underneath it — the words Kubernetes used, not a paraphrase. Your apps, grouped the way the Mac groups them. Pods, workloads and events, worst first, because the reason to open a list on a phone is to find the thing that is wrong. Live logs, streamed from the same endpoint kubectl uses. IT READS. THE MAC WRITES. Restarting, scaling, applying and deleting live on the Mac, behind its confirmation and its audit log. This app cannot make a change to a cluster — not by policy but by construction, and a phone in a pocket at 3 a.m. is the worst place from which to delete a production pod by accident. BUILT FOR BOTH SIZES iPhone gets a single-column app with a floating tab bar. iPad gets a three-pane split — clusters and sections, the list, the drill-in — with keyboard shortcuts, so you can see the pod list and the pod at once. Split View is supported, because a runbook is usually open next to it. HONEST ABOUT WHAT IT DOES NOT KNOW A cluster that will not let you list nodes reads as "—", not as zero nodes. A cluster that does not run cert-manager is not reported as having no certificates. A pod with no CPU limit gets a measurement rather than a percentage of a ceiling that was invented for the gauge. Ergo has no alerting server and will not pretend to page you. TRY IT WITH NO CLUSTER AT ALL A built-in sample cluster is there on first launch — served from data inside the app, no network, no account, nothing to sign in to. Every screen works against it. Ergo is not affiliated with the Kubernetes project or the CNCF. Requires iOS or iPadOS 18. Terms of use https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Ergo at every 3 days against Docker Manager's every 2 weeks. 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
Both are free to download. Docker Manager sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Ergo sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Docker Manager ships an update every 2 weeks, Ergo every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Docker Manager | Ergo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 45 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Antonios Freris | Joe's Apps |
In-app purchases
Docker Manager
- Tier 1 Supporter$1.99
- Tier 2 Supporter$3.99
- Tier 3 Supporter$12.99
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- Tier 4 Supporter$39.99
Ergo
- Ergo Pro (Monthly)14 Days trial$8.991 Month
- Ergo Pro (Annual)14 Days trial$89.991 Year








