Ergo vs Röle

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/

Röle — API testing that stays on your device Röle is a lightweight, local-only API client for testing REST endpoints. There's no account to create, no sign-in screen, and no backend server in between — Röle talks directly to the APIs you point it at, and everything you build stays in plain files on your device. Send any request Full support for GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, PATCH, HEAD, and OPTIONS. Edit headers, query params, and body with a dedicated editor, then inspect the response — status, timing, size, and a formatted body — the moment it comes back. Stay organized Group related requests into collections. Set up environments for dev, staging, and production, and swap between them with variables like {{baseUrl}} instead of editing URLs by hand. Automate your testing Collection Runner — fire off every request in a collection in sequence and get a pass/fail summary Flows — chain requests together, pass one response into the next, and add delays between steps Tests — add assertions (like status code checks) that run automatically against every response History — every request you send is saved locally, so nothing gets lost Bring your existing work Import a Postman or Röle workspace as JSON, with conflict handling if names collide. Export your workspace anytime to back it up or move it to another device. Built to stay out of your way A clean Material 3 interface with light, dark, and system theme support. Runs the same on phone or desktop. Why local-only? Because your API keys, staging URLs, and test data are yours. Röle doesn't sync to a server, doesn't require login, and doesn't send your requests anywhere except the endpoint you're testing. Röle means "relay" in Turkish — the app relays requests and responses between you and your services, nothing more.