Comparison

Roam vs Ergo

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

Head to head
About

Roam

Features
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Roam is a premium, secure, and cross-platform Kubernetes cluster management and monitoring application designed for DevOps engineers, software developers, and system administrators. Track your cluster health, manage workloads, and diagnose issues directly from your mobile device. KEY FEATURES: โ€ข Rich Overview Dashboard: Get an instant health check of your cluster with real-time resource utilization metrics, node status, and critical cluster-wide events. โ€ข Deep Node Inspection & Operations: View hardware details (CPU, RAM, Disk) for control-planes and worker nodes, see exactly which Pods are running on each node, and perform node maintenance โ€” Cordon/Uncordon, Drain (respecting PodDisruptionBudgets), or Delete โ€” right from the app. โ€ข Advanced Workload Management: Monitor deployments, pods, statefulsets, daemonsets, and replicasets with instant search across every resource list. Scale workloads, trigger restarts, or view raw YAML definitions on the fly. โ€ข Live Log Viewer: A dedicated terminal-style log viewer with real-time streaming, search, regex filtering, severity highlighting (INFO, WARN, ERROR), and line wrap options. โ€ข Real-time Issue Tracking: Automatically detect and group cluster events into Critical, Warning, and Info severity levels with detailed drill-down diagnostic modals. โ€ข Offline-First & Security-Focused: All cluster configurations and Kubeconfig files are stored locally using device-level hardware encryption (Keychain/Keystore). Roam directly connects to your Kubernetes API server; your credentials and data never pass through third-party servers. Simplify your Kubernetes infrastructure monitoring on the go. Download Roam and take control of your clusters today!

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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 โ€” 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 โ€” 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 โ€” 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 โ€” clusters and sections, the list, the drill-in โ€” 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 "โ€”", 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 โ€” served from data inside the app, no network, no account, nothing to sign in to. Every screen works against it. ERGO PRO, BOUGHT ONCE FOR EVERY DEVICE Ergo is a universal purchase: this app and Ergo for Mac share one Ergo Pro subscription, which you can start, restore or manage here under More > Ergo Pro. Everything the companion shows is free. Ergo Pro unlocks committing changes in Ergo for Mac โ€” apply, scale, restart, drain, cordon, taint, evict, delete. Cancel anytime; nothing is deleted. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS Ergo Pro is an auto-renewable subscription: $8.99 per month, or $89.99 per year, each with a 14-day free trial for new subscribers. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. It renews automatically at the same price unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel anytime in the App Store under Account Settings. Terms of Use: https://ergo.joesapps.net/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://ergo.joesapps.net/privacy.html Ergo is not affiliated with the Kubernetes project or the CNCF. Requires iOS or iPadOS 18.

Screenshots

Roam4 screens
Ergo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Roam at none against Ergo's 2. Roam also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs monthly) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Ergo sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month. Roam asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Roam ships an update every 3 days, Ergo monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 3 level
Roam versus Ergo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRoamErgo
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 days โ€” betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
DevicesiPhone, MaciPhone, iPad, Mac โ€” better
Requires iOS16.4 โ€” better18.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size77 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTuan Anh PhamJoe's Apps

In-app purchases

None

Roam

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Ergo

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

Questions

Is Roam free?
Roam is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ergo free?
Ergo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Roam or Ergo have ads?
Neither Roam nor Ergo shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Roam or Ergo?
Roam ships an update every 3 days, and Ergo monthly. Most recently, Roam was updated on November 1, 2026 and Ergo on October 31, 2026.

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