# Nautik for Kubernetes

> A concurrent Kubernetes IDE

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1672838783](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1672838783)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1672838783`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** DWRPD Software UG haftungsbeschraenkt
- **Category:** Developer Tools
- **Rating:** 4.60 / 5 (15 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.9.8
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-02
- **First published:** 2024-03-18
- **Size:** 290 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-23
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nautik-for-kubernetes/id1672838783)
- **Website:** [https://nautik.io](https://nautik.io/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://nautik.io/privacy/app](https://nautik.io/privacy/app)

## Description

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

## Rankings

- #279,681 — Overall

## Review summary

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

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