Ergo vs DockerHub
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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/
DockerHub
Monitor and manage your Docker containers remotely over SSH. Gain insights into container health, performance, and activity with live instruments and a comprehensive health scorecard. Access terminals, browse filesystems, and customize the interface.
- Live performance instruments
- Container health scorecard
- Activity and burst detection
- Fleet-wide server comparison
- Real-time terminal access
- Customizable themes
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DockerHub manages the Docker containers on servers you already own. It speaks the real Docker Engine API over an ordinary SSH connection — the same mechanism the official docker CLI uses for `docker -H ssh://`. That means there is nothing to install on your servers, no port to open, and no daemon listening on TCP. WHAT YOU GET • Live instruments — radial gauges, segmented meters and sparklines driven by real readings from the daemon. Where a value cannot be measured it is shown as unknown, never as a zero that looks like a reading. • A health scorecard — eleven checks across availability, observability, security and hygiene: containers with no restart policy, ports published to the whole network, the Docker socket mounted into a container, running as root, floating image tags. The grade is explainable line by line. • Activity with the pattern visible — a density chart across 24 hours, repeated events collapsed into one row with their rhythm, and burst detection when several containers fail on one host inside the same minute. • Your whole fleet at once — every server connects on launch. A matrix compares servers against metrics and services against servers, so a database missing from one host is obvious. • Real terminal access — follow logs as they stream, open an interactive shell inside a container, browse its filesystem, read a full inspect. • Themes that are actually yours — every colour, radius, font scale and density is a token you can change. PRIVACY No account, no sign-in, no server of ours in the middle. Credentials are held in your device keychain and sent only to the server you are connecting to. Analytics is off unless you turn it on, and never records hostnames, credentials, container names or log contents. DockerHub is an independent app and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Docker, Inc. Docker and Docker Hub are trademarks of Docker, Inc. The closing disclaimer is not optional. It is the standard way to make referential use explicit, and it costs nothing. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ https://dockerhub-web.vercel.app/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: Ergo at 3 against DockerHub's 1. On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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. Ergo sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month and DockerHub sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Ergo | DockerHub |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Joe's Apps | Elite Performance Exclusive LLC |
In-app purchases
Ergo
- Ergo Pro (Monthly)14 Days trial$8.991 Month
- Ergo Pro (Annual)14 Days trial$89.991 Year
DockerHub
- DockerHub Pro Weekly$3.997 Days
- DockerHub Pro Annual7 Days trial$79.991 Year









