Comparison

cronstable vs Curlie

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

Head to head
About

cronstable

Monitor and manage your job scheduler from your mobile device. Receive real-time alerts for failures, track job history, and view performance metrics. Securely connect to your servers without needing an account.

Highlights
  • Push notifications for job failures
  • Real-time job status dashboard
  • Workflow and approval gate management
  • Job run history and logs
  • Cron expression sandbox
  • Home Screen widgets
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Cronstable is the on-call companion and full native dashboard for cronstable, the open-source job scheduler. Built for production servers and homelabs alike. Pair the app with your servers by scanning a QR code. ALERTS • Push notifications for failed runs, workflow failures, approval gates, and SLA breaches, including late, stale, or long-running jobs • End-to-end encrypted: every alert is encrypted for your device before it leaves your server; the relay in between can never read it • Approve or reject gated jobs right from the Lock Screen • Fully usable without push: the app can poll your servers directly, with a refresh interval you choose, from 1 to 300 seconds A NATIVE DASHBOARD • Jobs board with live status, run history, and logs streamed in real time • Track workflow runs, individual tasks, and approval gates • Run trends for every job, plus interactive CPU and memory charts for the jobs you monitor • Node and cluster views for multi-server fleets • Schedule tools: heatmaps of job activity, duplicate detection, a cron expression sandbox, and plain answers to "why did this run?" AT A GLANCE • Home Screen widgets for fleet health • Add your job schedule to your calendar YOUR DATA IS ALWAYS YOURS • No account or sign-up required. No analytics. No ads. • Tokens stay in the device Keychain; the app talks to your servers over LAN, Tailscale, or HTTPS. • Works with the free, MIT-licensed cronstable daemon: github.com/ptweezy/cronstable FREE AND PRO Cronstable is free and includes one saved server and up to 500 push alerts per month per device. Cronstable Pro, an optional subscription, adds unlimited saved servers and unlimited push alerts on up to five devices. All monitoring features are free. Try it in seconds: the built-in demo connects to a live sample fleet, so you can explore every screen before you set up a server. Keep your daemons close. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Curlie

Features
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Curlie is a fast, native API client for iPhone and iPad. PASTE CURL, GET A REQUEST Copy as cURL from Chrome, Safari or Firefox, or from any API's docs, and paste it into Curlie. It understands real-world commands (line continuations, quoting tricks, headers, bodies, forms, file uploads and auth) and shows you exactly what it read before importing. Export any request back to cURL with one tap. BUILD AND SEND REQUESTS • GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD and OPTIONS • Query parameters and headers you can switch on and off • JSON, text, form, multipart and GraphQL bodies • Basic, Bearer token and API key auth, kept in the Keychain • Color-coded JSON responses that keep the server's key order, with status, timing, size and headers • Previews for images and web pages STAY ORGANIZED • Collections you can reorder and rename • Environments with {{variables}} for hosts, tokens and IDs • History of your last 100 requests • A built-in library of 20 popular APIs, including GitHub, Stripe, OpenAI, Anthropic, Notion, the National Weather Service and more. Many work without a key. CURLIE PRO: ONE PURCHASE, NO SUBSCRIPTION • No ads • Shortcuts & Siri: send saved requests or cURL commands, then pull fields out of the JSON with a simple path • iCloud Sync of collections, environments and WebSocket endpoints • WebSockets: connect, send, ping and watch a live message log • GraphQL Schema Explorer: browse any schema and turn a field into a working query Try it now: "Hey Siri, get the forecast with Curlie."

Screenshots

cronstable4 screens
Curlie4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: cronstable at none against Curlie's shown. cronstable also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 3 days). Curlie's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, 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. cronstable sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Curlie sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

cronstable ships an update daily, Curlie every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 29, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
cronstable versus Curlie: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametercronstableCurlie
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (6 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyDaily — betterEvery 3 days
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB7 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperParker LoflinWhite Bread Games

In-app purchases

2 purchases

cronstable

Subscriptions2
  • Cronstable Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Cronstable Pro Yearly$14.991 Year
1 purchases

Curlie

One-time1
  • Curlie Pro$9.99

Questions

Is cronstable free?
cronstable is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Curlie free?
Curlie is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do cronstable or Curlie have ads?
Curlie shows ads; cronstable does not.
Which is updated more often, cronstable or Curlie?
cronstable ships an update daily, and Curlie every 3 days. Most recently, cronstable was updated on October 29, 2026 and Curlie on October 29, 2026.

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