Comparison

SiteGlance vs Monkeytail

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

Head to head
About

SiteGlance

Features
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SiteGlance puts your Umami analytics on your iPhone. Check visitors, pageviews and realtime activity for every site in seconds, and keep today's numbers on your home screen. WORKS WITH YOUR UMAMI • Self-hosted Umami over HTTPS — sign in with your username and password • Umami Cloud — sign in with an API key • No account yet? Try the built-in demo with sample sites ALL SITES AT A GLANCE • Visitors, pageviews, change and a trend line for each site • Compare today with the same hours yesterday • Sort by visitors, live, growth or name SITE DETAIL • Top pages, referrers, countries, devices and events • Today, 24 hours, 7 days or 30 days • Goals and funnels you set up in Umami REALTIME • Who is on your sites right now: active pages, referrers and countries HOME SCREEN WIDGETS • Today's visitors and hourly trend, one site per widget — free PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No servers of our own and no tracking SDKs. The app talks to your Umami directly; your password stays in the iOS Keychain. Dark mode. English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Japanese. SITEGLANCE PRO Free includes one connection, your first three sites and the top rows of every report. Pro is a one-time purchase that unlocks multiple connections, all sites, and full lists for metrics, goals and funnels. No subscription — restore it anytime on devices with the same Apple ID. SiteGlance is an independent client made by Yichen Lab and is not affiliated with Umami Software. Privacy Policy: https://siteglance.yichenlab.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Monkeytail

Features
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Monkeytail is a native request debugger for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro. The compact Apple Watch companion sends favourite requests copied from iPhone. No Monkeytail account or sign-in. • Import cURL, Postman collections, Insomnia JSON, and OpenAPI or Swagger JSON/YAML. • Organize nested folders with shared headers, authentication, variables, and JavaScript hooks. • Use OAuth 2.0 with PKCE and refresh tokens, API keys, Basic, Bearer, and AWS Signature V4. • Manage cookies and client certificates. Inspect request timings, redirects, and TLS details. • Edit GraphQL queries and variables, browse schema fields, and inspect WebSocket or SSE messages. • Format JSON, browse a tree, search, run visual response tests, and inspect images, audio, video, hex, or binary data. • Save and compare responses, create offline mocks, and export Swift, JavaScript, Python, or Kotlin client code. • Sync workspaces with optional iCloud Drive. Choose proxies. Browser TLS/HTTP2 profiles are available on iOS and Mac. Free, with no in-app purchases, analytics, tracking, or data collection by Kitta Co. Requests go to servers and proxies you choose. Credentials, cookies, client certificates, and upload files stay on your device by default. Requires iOS 17 or macOS 14 or later. Client certificate import on Mac requires macOS 15. Import, schema validation, and scripting support the documented subset.

Screenshots

SiteGlance4 screens
Monkeytail3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Monkeytail at none against SiteGlance's 1. Monkeytail also leads on device support (5 vs 2). SiteGlance's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. SiteGlance sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Monkeytail asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SiteGlance ships an update every 5 days, Monkeytail every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences Ā· 3 level
SiteGlance versus Monkeytail: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSiteGlanceMonkeytail
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChengdu Yichen Technology Co., LtdKitta Ltd

In-app purchases

1 purchases

SiteGlance

One-time1
  • SiteGlance Pro$1.99
None

Monkeytail

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SiteGlance free?
SiteGlance is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Monkeytail free?
Monkeytail is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do SiteGlance or Monkeytail have ads?
Neither SiteGlance nor Monkeytail shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SiteGlance or Monkeytail?
SiteGlance ships an update every 5 days, and Monkeytail every 3 days. Most recently, SiteGlance was updated on October 16, 2026 and Monkeytail on October 15, 2026.

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