GLab vs KubeGlance
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GLab
A native mobile client for managing GitLab projects, including merge requests, issues, CI/CD pipelines, and repositories. Offers offline access to cached data and supports multiple GitLab instances.
- Full merge request viewer with syntax highlighting
- Line-level commenting and suggestions
- CI/CD pipeline monitoring and management
- Repository file browsing and editing
- Unified todo inbox and activity feed
- Offline access to cached data
- Multi-instance support
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Review, approve and merge from your phone — on gitlab.com or your company's self-hosted GitLab. GLab is a fast, native iPhone client for developers who ship on the go. You assemble the Home screen yourself, so it shows only the work waiting on you. Works with gitlab.com and any self-hosted GitLab (CE or EE, 14.x+). Connect multiple instances and switch in one tap. One-tap gitlab.com sign-in; guided setup for your own server or token. — WHAT YOU CAN DO — A Home screen you assemble • Up to eight modules: review requests, your MRs, issues, todos, failed, active and recent pipelines, recent projects • Every section renders as a list or a carousel; content, order and density are yours to set • Developer, Reviewer and Lead / DevOps presets rebuild Home in one tap • A status line: signals awaiting you, offline and unsent state • Swipe actions right in the lists: approve, merge, close an issue, retry or cancel a pipeline, snooze for a day Merge Requests • Full diff viewer with syntax highlighting and word-level changes • Comment on lines; threaded discussions — reply, resolve, edit • Apply suggestions from a review straight into the code • Create MRs; edit title, description, labels, assignees, milestone • Approve, unapprove, merge, rebase, close, reopen Issues • Create, comment, close, reopen, lock • Edit title, description, labels, assignees, milestones, due dates • Emoji reactions, subscribe, search across all projects CI/CD Pipelines • Active builds across all your projects right on the Home screen • Live status with stages, jobs and duration in the list • Run a pipeline on any branch; retry, cancel, play manual jobs • Raw build logs refreshing live; environments, deployments and runners Repository • Browse the file tree, view blobs with highlighting, line history (blame) • Create/delete files; branches and tags, compare diffs, commit history • Wiki, Snippets and Releases — browse and edit; README rendering Todos, groups and Ops • Unified todo inbox by project and action; mark-all-done and swipe actions • Activity feed, GitLab status, group list drilling into projects • CI/CD variables, schedules, runners, environments, registry (Maintainer+) • Project members — add, change access level, remove — FAST AND OFFLINE — Merge requests and issues are ready on Home from cache, even offline. Pipelines and job logs update live, then pause in the background to save battery. — MULTI-INSTANCE BY DESIGN — Every project, MR, issue and pipeline is scoped to its GitLab instance — gitlab.com never mixes with self-hosted, even with matching issue numbers. — PRIVACY AND SECURITY — • Personal Access Token and OAuth 2.0 PKCE sign-in • Tokens stored only in the Keychain, on this device • Tokens, emails, URLs and response bodies are never logged or sent to analytics • Anonymous analytics/crash reports — no personal data, no ad IDs • Privacy policy: https://gitlab.com/appstore-demo/glab/-/blob/main/PRIVACY.md — FREE AND PRO — GLab is free for read-only browsing of unlimited projects. Optional Pro subscription (auto-renewing, 3/6/12 months) unlocks: • Multiple connected GitLab accounts • Create issues and MRs; comment on diff lines, apply suggestions, edit, react • Repository editing — files, branches, tags • Approve/merge MRs; run, retry, cancel pipelines; manage CI/CD variables Charged to your Apple ID; auto-renews unless cancelled 24h before period end. — NATIVE ON iPhone — iOS 18 and later. 100% SwiftUI, Dynamic Type, VoiceOver, light and dark themes. Widgets (Home Screen, Lock Screen, StandBy) show your MRs, todos and pipelines at a glance. Siri Shortcuts open a project hands-free. Apple Watch mirrors your review queue, todos and pipelines. Download GLab — your next review is one tap away. GLab is an independent app, not affiliated with, endorsed, sponsored or approved by GitLab Inc. GitLab is a trademark of GitLab Inc. EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Support: emvakar@gmail.com
KubeGlance
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KubeGlance is a native Kubernetes dashboard for iPhone, iPad, and Mac — a real client for the everyday questions: is my cluster okay, what are my pods doing, and what just changed? Import a kubeconfig and you are looking at your clusters in seconds. No account, no in-cluster agent, no telemetry. KubeGlance talks directly to your Kubernetes API servers with the credentials you already have, and it is read-only by default — you can leave it open against production without a second thought. ONE VIEW, EVERY CLUSTER Enable any set of contexts and pods, workloads, nodes, and events merge into a single live view, each row tagged with its source cluster. Name your clusters and color them — a red "prod" banner follows you everywhere. One unreachable cluster never blanks the others. BUILT FOR INCIDENTS Follow merged logs across all replicas of a workload — or hand-pick any pods, even across namespaces and clusters — in one chronological stream. Structured JSON and nginx lines parse into fields with level filters. Bookmark the line that matters and jump back to it. Search the whole buffer instantly, with regex when you want it. THE DETAILS THAT MATTER - Live pod tables with kubectl-accurate statuses (CrashLoopBackOff and friends) - Workload tables: Deployments, StatefulSets, DaemonSets, Jobs — ready over desired, trouble highlighted - Rollout history with revision compare: see exactly what each deploy changed - Search that speaks kubectl: type namespace:prod status:crash and filters become chips - CPU and memory from metrics-server; history and efficiency (reserved vs used, suggested requests) from Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics or Thanos, auto-detected - Cluster events feed with reason and namespace filters AFTER EVERY DEPLOY The checks you would otherwise run in a terminal, as views that appear only when your cluster has the capability: - GitOps: Flux Kustomizations and Helm releases with applied vs attempted revision and what blocks a reconcile, plus Argo CD apps with sync, health and drift - Autoscaling: HPA and KEDA merged per workload, with fallback, missing metrics and at-max called out, and replica and metric charts - Certificates: cert-manager and TLS secrets sorted by days left - Network: Services with the endpoints actually behind them, plus Ingress routing and Gateway API - Config: ConfigMaps and Secrets with the pods that read them, and which pods still run an older version - Releases: what image is running where, and when it rolled out - CronJobs with a last-run verdict, pod memory as a percent of its limit, and node pools against the provider ceiling - Storage: claims that never bound, volumes nobody mounts, namespace quotas and GPU claims - Resources: browse any kind the API server knows, with kubectl's own columns ALERTS Native notifications for crash loops, restart storms, NotReady nodes, stalled rollouts, failed jobs, expiring certificates, services without endpoints, and pods near their memory limit. Rules are scoped by cluster color, namespace and name patterns. Real-time on the Mac; best-effort background checks on iPhone and iPad. No kubeconfig handy? Tap "Try with a Demo Cluster" and explore with sample data — nothing real is contacted. Auth support: client certificates (mTLS) and bearer tokens, including inline PEM and multi-file kubeconfigs with kubectl merge semantics. KUBEGLANCE PRO — WHAT'S PAID, WHAT'S FREE Connecting your own clusters on iPhone and iPad requires a subscription: KubeGlance Pro. Current pricing and any free trial are shown in the app before you subscribe. Everything else is free — the built-in demo cluster, where you can explore the full app with sample data first, and the entire Mac app, which has no in-app purchases at all. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://kubeglance.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://kubeglance.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: KubeGlance at none against GLab's 3. KubeGlance also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). GLab's advantage is iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. GLab sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per 3 months. KubeGlance asks for nothing beyond the download.
GLab ships an update every 3 weeks, KubeGlance weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GLab | KubeGlance |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Emil Karimov | Fancygames, Ltd. |
In-app purchases
GLab
- GLab Pro — 3 months7 Days trial$6.993 Months
- GLab Pro — 6 months7 Days trial$12.996 Months
- GLab Pro — 1 year3 Days trial$19.991 Year
KubeGlance
No in-app purchases









