Comparison

Monkeytail vs pocketty

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

Head to head
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. Keychain storage is optional. Choose whether credentials join iCloud sync. Cookies, client certificates, and upload files remain on your device. 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.

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pocketty

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pocketty is an SSH terminal for iPhone and iPad, made for herdr. Know the moment an agent is blocked or done, and answer it in a real terminal, right from your phone. HERDR, NATIVE • Your herdr workspaces, tabs and Panes show up as a native list, with the live state of each agent: working, needs you, or done. • Open any Pane full screen, at the size of your phone. Lock the phone, and your desk gets it back. • Start a tab or a workspace, rename a tab, or swipe a Pane away. • Works with every agent that herdr knows, including Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode and Gemini CLI. • No herdr? You get a normal login shell, or tmux and zellij with a startup command. SEALED NOTIFICATIONS • Get a notification when an agent is blocked or done. Tap it, and pocketty opens that Pane. • Your computer seals each notification so that only your phone can open it. Our relay passes the sealed bytes to Apple and keeps nothing. • A notification never contains text from your terminal. REVIEW THE WORK • See what an agent changed in its last turn, in its whole session, or since the last commit. • Browse and search the files of any Pane, with code in color. • When a Pane starts a dev server, open it in a preview. The page loads through your SSH connection, with no tunnel to set up. A REAL TERMINAL • Ghostty's terminal engine, drawn with Metal. Agents, editors and TUIs look the way they do on your desk. • Ctrl, Alt, Esc, Tab, arrows, and the symbols that phones hide, right above the keyboard. • Text mode sends a whole message at once. Dictate it, paste a screenshot, send. • Send photos and files from Photos, the camera or Files. pocketty uploads them and types the path. • Nerd Fonts with ligatures, hardware keyboards and the kitty keyboard protocol. YOUR KEYS STAY YOURS • Your SSH key is made in the Secure Enclave. It cannot leave your phone. • Host keys are pinned. If a host key changes, pocketty stops and asks you. • Face ID can lock the App. • Your terminal goes straight to your computers over SSH. It never touches our servers. • No account, no analytics, no ads. CONNECT YOUR WAY • Any SSH server works. We recommend Tailscale: it gives each computer an address that works from anywhere. • Install the free pocketty daemon on your Mac or Linux computer, and add the computer in a minute. You approve your phone on the computer itself, with a code. • pocketty checks the connection every five seconds, and reconnects by itself when it drops. PRICE Everything works free for 14 days. Then one purchase keeps it, with every future update. No subscription. Nothing is charged when the trial ends.

Screenshots

Monkeytail4 screens
pocketty4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Monkeytail at none against pocketty's 2. Monkeytail also leads on device support (5 vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads and iOS requirement 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. pocketty sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Monkeytail asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Monkeytail ships an update every 3 days, pocketty every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
Monkeytail versus pocketty: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMonkeytailpocketty
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB31 MB
Age rating+417+
DeveloperKitta Co.Luke Edwards

In-app purchases

None

Monkeytail

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

pocketty

One-time2
  • 14-day TrialFree
  • Unlock pocketty$129.00

Questions

Is Monkeytail free?
Monkeytail is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is pocketty free?
pocketty is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Monkeytail or pocketty have ads?
Neither Monkeytail nor pocketty shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Monkeytail or pocketty?
Monkeytail ships an update every 3 days, and pocketty every 2 days. Most recently, Monkeytail was updated on October 15, 2026 and pocketty on October 24, 2026.

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