Comparison

Fjord Mobile vs Ergo

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

Head to head
About

Fjord Mobile

Manage your self-hosted Git forge from your iPhone or iPad. Review code, triage issues, monitor CI/CD pipelines, and merge changes on the go. Supports direct connection to Forgejo and Gitea instances.

Highlights
  • Pull request review and merging
  • Issue management and commenting
  • CI/CD pipeline monitoring and control
  • Repository and code browsing
  • File editing and committing
  • Home Screen widgets for build status
Features
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Fjord Mobile is a Forgejo and Gitea client for iPhone and iPad. Review pull requests, triage issues, watch your CI, and merge, from anywhere. Connect free with a personal access token; a Fjord account is optional. WHAT YOU CAN DO - Review pull requests: conversation, timeline, diffs, changed files, CI status, approve or request changes, and merge. - Open pull requests and create and edit issues. Comment, react, label, assign, and manage reviewers. - Triage your notification inbox, with optional push for your own activity. - Run CI, not just watch it: browse Actions runs across your repositories, read a failed job's log, cancel a run or start one with your own inputs, and download artifacts. - Browse repositories, code, commits, branches, releases, and milestones. Edit a file and commit it to a branch for a quick fix. - Add Home Screen widgets: build status, open PR count, review requests, your contribution graph, and runner queue. SIGN IN - Connect directly to your own self-hosted Forgejo instance with a personal access token, no account required. Tokens are stored only in the device Keychain. - Or, optionally, sign in with a Fjord account to add push notifications and switch between your instances and connected forges without signing out. FREE AND MOBILE PRO - Free: connect any Forgejo server, add several servers and accounts, browse, and review, comment on and merge pull requests. Actions and their logs, push notifications, the contribution widget, reading pull requests offline and a few offline reviews are free as well. - Mobile Pro is a one-time purchase. It adds the Review Queue, which walks you through the pull requests waiting on your review one after another, by voice if you like on iOS 26; Needs You, the pull requests waiting on you, on Home, in a widget and when you ask Siri; a review assistant on devices with Apple Intelligence, which sums up what changed since your review and drafts comments without anything leaving the device; and Live Activities for runs. Also included: advanced notification actions, multi-line and block comments, offline review beyond the free allowance, and the iPad review workstation, where you comment and finish reviews with keyboard commands from its Review menu. - Pencil review (Mobile Pro): On iPad with Apple Pencil, write over a line to comment on it, drag to select lines, and keep private ink notes that never leave the device. - Restore Purchases is in Settings. Native on iPhone and iPad. No ads, and no cross-app tracking: nothing is shared with data brokers or used to follow you across apps and sites. Crash diagnostics are on by default and can be turned off in Settings. Fjord also sends product analytics: app usage events such as the app opening, a saved sign-in resuming, review activity, Forge Health, Mobile Pro paywall and purchase events, and once-a-day feature use. Events carry your account identifier if you are signed in with a Fjord Account and Fjord does not ask first, and otherwise a random identifier created on the device, which changes every month where Fjord asks first. They never include repository names, server addresses, usernames, pull request titles, file contents or text you write. If your device country or App Store country is in the EU, the EEA, the UK or Switzerland, or cannot be determined, Fjord asks before sending any analytics; elsewhere analytics is on until you turn it off in Settings, which also deletes the device identifier and anything not yet sent. Fjord is a third-party client for self-hosted Git forges. Compatible with Forgejo servers and other compatible installations, including Gitea. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Forgejo, Codeberg, Gitea, or any server operator.

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Ergo

Features
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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/

Screenshots

Fjord Mobile4 screens
Ergo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Ergo at every 3 days against Fjord Mobile's every 8 days. 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. Fjord Mobile sells 1 one-off in-app purchase 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fjord Mobile ships an update every 8 days, Ergo every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Fjord Mobile versus Ergo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFjord MobileErgo
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (6 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.4 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size95 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRaster & StateJoe's Apps

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Fjord Mobile

One-time1
  • Mobile Pro$49.99
2 purchases

Ergo

Subscriptions2
  • Ergo Pro (Monthly)14 Days trial$8.991 Month
  • Ergo Pro (Annual)14 Days trial$89.991 Year

Questions

Is Fjord Mobile free?
Fjord Mobile is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ergo free?
Ergo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Fjord Mobile or Ergo have ads?
Neither Fjord Mobile nor Ergo shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Fjord Mobile or Ergo?
Fjord Mobile ships an update every 8 days, and Ergo every 3 days. Most recently, Fjord Mobile was updated on October 31, 2026 and Ergo on October 24, 2026.

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