Features & Capabilities

Now with better filter menus, cron job actions, a scaling UI and an inspector sidebar!

Nautik is the premier full-featured Kubernetes IDE designed exclusively for the Apple ecosystem. Its features include:

  • Multi-cluster mode: Viewing the resources of multiple clusters at once.
  • Multi-namespace mode: Viewing the resources of multiple namespaces of multiple clusters at once.
  • Rendering built-in resources and custom resources in beautifully designed native detail views.
  • Automatic resource watching with real-time updates.
  • Log viewer: Watching and searching logs of multiple pods and containers in one combined stream, including ANSI colors and font styles.
  • Integrated terminal: Attaching shells to both pods and nodes.
  • Port forwarding: Forwarding ports of pods and services to the device's localhost, including multiplexing and robust reconnection behavior—even over app restarts.
  • Integrated Helm client to view, install, uninstall, upgrade and rollback Helm releases, pull charts from custom Helm repositories, and edit the configuration values of installed charts.
  • Editing resources as YAML source with the integrated, customizable text editor.
  • Creating new resources.
  • Deleting resources, cordoning and uncordoning nodes, evicting pods, restarting deployments, daemonsets, statefulsets and replicasets.
  • Scaling workload replicas up and down.
  • Manually triggering, suspending and resuming cron jobs
  • Convenient secret editing with automatic base64 decoding and encoding.
  • Accessing clusters stored on a local kubeconfig file, on the local system keychain, and optionally syncing stored clusters between devices via iCloud Keychain.
  • Multiple overview dashboards with time series charts powered by an internal Prometheus client.
  • Widgets for home screen, lock screen and desktop with workload statuses and Prometheus time series charts.
  • Rendering related events for resources and related pods for workloads.
  • Multi-window support.
  • Tabbing support (on macOS).
  • Handoff support.
  • Focus filter support.
  • Integration with Siri and Shortcuts.
  • Authentication via OpenID Connect.
  • Easy integration with Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, DigitalOcean and Talos Omni to automatically import and authorize clusters.
  • Many customization options like optional request gzipping, proxy URL support, or custom list sorting.

The terms of service can be found here: https://nautik.io/tos

User Growth & Download Statistics

App
By:
DWRPD Software UG haftungsbeschraenkt
Rating:
4.60
(15)
Version:
1.9.8 Last updated: 2026-06-02
Version code:
886401031
Creation date:
2024-03-18
Compatible devices:
Size:
290.03MB
URLs:
Website ,Privacy policy
Full description:
See detailed description
Source:
Apple Apps Store
Data ingested on:
2026-06-05
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Developed by:
DWRPD Software UG haftungsbeschraenkt
Apple Apps Store
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nautik-for-kubernetes/id1672838783
Website:
https://nautik.io

User Reviews

Reviewers consistently praise Nautik's polished UI on macOS and its usefulness for monitoring and learning Kubernetes. However, recurring concerns focus on pricing (desire for cheaper or non-commercial licenses), authentication gaps (no generic OIDC and limited support for tools like StrongDM/Teleport), and limited multi-cluster management in the non-subscription version.
Pros
  • Polished, native-feeling UI on macOS
  • Great for monitoring and learning Kubernetes with easy viewing/editing of resources
  • Fast, intuitive experience with strong feature support compared to similar tools
Cons
  • Pricing model is a frequent gripe; users want cheaper options, non-commercial licenses, one-time purchases, or donation options
Recent reviews
Purchased lifetime - nice looking app. A FluxCD addition with the ability to force quick reconciles would be nice.
by sk*****, 2026-03-07

The app is overall amazing! Thank you for making this. Since this is for my homelab, I’m not sure if I’ll pay $50/yr but I’d say pay maybe $20/yr or so. It’s not super critical but I want to support your work. Even if I can’t unlock pro, perhaps have a donate option, so that peeps can donate whatever they think/feel is right for them but also allows supporting the app. Good luck and thank you.
by pl*****, 2026-02-13

I have nothing to complain about the UI. It’s perfectly designed, fully integrated and functional. The one “but” is the pricing model. I have my home lab that I like to access and manage when on travels. The basic version gives me 95% of what I want. The jump to Pro is $50/yr at this time. I wish there was some license for non-commercial use that is either cheaper or “per major version”. In other words, I’d love to give you $20/yr or $50 one time.. but not $50/yr
by mm*****, 2025-07-29
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