The best GitLab apps for Android and iPhone in 2026, compared

GitLab Inc. does not make a mobile app (see does GitLab have a mobile app?), so every GitLab app on Google Play and the App Store comes from an independent developer. There are more of them than you would guess, and they differ a lot: some only read, some charge for every action, some work only with gitlab.com.

A note on bias: we make MergeBell, one of the apps below. Everything said about the others comes from their own store listing or website, checked on 16 October 2026 (Glabby on 17 October). Where a listing does not mention a feature, we say “not listed” rather than guess. Prices are US prices and may differ where you live.

The short version

If you want…	Android	iPhone
The whole review loop, free, with push alerts	MergeBell	Greenlight: CI (gitlab.com only); MergeBell coming soon
Free review, approve and merge; push on a paid tier	Glabby	—
The most features, and you’ll pay a subscription	MergeBell Pro, Glabby Pro	GLab Pro
Pipelines on the Lock Screen	MergeBell Pro	Comeet
Free and open source	LabCoat, GitAlchemy, OctoLab	LabCoat
A one-time purchase	—	Tanuki ($0.99), PocketLab ($0.99), Control for GitLab ($7.99 Pro)

GitLab apps for Android

MergeBell

On Google Play since 16 October 2026, for Android 12 or later; the iPhone app is coming soon. Built around your GitLab To-Do List: an inbox of review requests, mentions and failed pipelines, diffs made for a phone with line comments, approve and merge (squash, auto-merge), pipelines with live logs, retry, cancel and manual jobs, issues, search and files, and an offline queue that posts when you are back online.

• Price: free for all of the above, plus push alerts for new To-Dos checked every five minutes. Pro is $4.99 a month or $14.99 a year, for one-minute and Instant alerts, pipeline watches, a live pipeline notification, review drafts with Request changes, suggestions and more accounts.
• GitLab: gitlab.com and self-managed GitLab 16.0 or later.
• Worth knowing: the sign-in token never leaves the phone; alerts use a separate read-only key held by MergeBell’s relay, which refuses any key that could write.

Glabby — A GitLab Client

A newer native client from KSol.IT, first released in September 2026 (100+ downloads). Its free tier covers projects, issues, merge requests with approve, merge, reopen and draft toggling, a phone-sized diff viewer (unified or split), pipelines and job logs, the repository and commits, offline caching, search, and a notification inbox built on your GitLab to-dos.

• Price: free, with a Pro tier sold as a monthly or yearly subscription or a one-time purchase. Pro adds lock-screen notifications for mentions, reviews and failed pipelines, retrying and cancelling pipelines, manual jobs, more than one account, and a home-screen widget.
• GitLab: gitlab.com and self-hosted GitLab, signing in with a personal access token kept in the Android Keystore.

LabCoat for GitLab

A long-running, free, open-source client with 100K+ downloads on Google Play. Its listing covers viewing commits, viewing, editing and closing issues, commenting on issues and merge requests, accepting merge requests, and managing groups and project members. Since April 2026 there is also an iPhone version. Its last store update was in April 2026; pipelines and push notifications are not listed.

GitBear for GitLab

Free, with sign-in by OAuth or access token. The listing names viewing, reviewing and approving merge requests and completing your to-dos. It was last updated in July 2026; multiple accounts are on its roadmap.

GitAlchemy

Free and open source (MIT), distributed through F-Droid and IzzyOnDroid rather than Google Play, with desktop builds for Linux, macOS and Windows. Its site lists browsing projects and repositories, viewing, creating and commenting on issues and merge requests, monitoring pipelines and reading job logs, and managing to-dos and notifications. Active: three releases in October 2026. No iOS version is planned.

OctoLab

Free and open source (Apache-2.0), on F-Droid. Its listing names several accounts side by side (self-hosted and gitlab.com), push notifications for new to-do items, viewing and commenting on merge requests and diffs, and following pipeline status. Updated three times in early October 2026.

GitLab apps for iPhone

GLab — Client for GitLab

The broadest feature list on iOS: approve, unapprove, merge and rebase; run pipelines, retry, cancel and play manual jobs; live job logs; Home Screen, Lock Screen and StandBy widgets; an offline cache; gitlab.com and self-hosted GitLab 14.x or later; an Apple Watch app.

• Price: free to read; every write action needs Pro at $6.99 for 3 months, $12.99 for 6 months or $19.99 a year.
• Not listed: push notifications and Live Activities.

Greenlight: CI

Free, with no in-app purchases and no analytics. It approves and unapproves, merges, sets merge-when-pipeline-succeeds, marks drafts ready, and tails job logs with retry, cancel and manual jobs. Optional push notifications cover failed and recovered pipelines and review requests, with quiet hours. gitlab.com only for now — its maker says self-hosted support is next.

Comeet – GitLab Companion

Focused on watching: push notifications for issues, merge requests and pipeline status through its own proxy notification server, pipeline Live Activities, a Lock Screen widget, syntax-highlighted job logs, and self-hosted instances. Free, with a $29.99 lifetime Pro. Its description does not mention approving or merging.

Tanuki for GitLab

A $0.99 one-time purchase for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro and Apple Watch. Recent release notes add several GitLab instances, a Watch companion, file previews and silent OAuth token refresh; version 2.4.0 (October 2026) requires iOS 18.

Control for GitLab

One of the oldest clients (first released in 2013), free with a $7.99 Pro upgrade. It covers merge requests, issues, milestones, source browsing and commit diffs, for GitLab 9.x and later. Pipelines are not listed, and apart from a February 2026 rename it has not changed in years.

PocketLab for GitLab

$0.99. Pipelines, merge requests, issues and discussions, with AI-written summaries of code and pipeline data. Push notifications and self-managed support are not listed.

How to choose

Ask four questions, in this order:

1. Does it work with your GitLab? If your company runs its own instance, rule out anything gitlab.com-only and check the minimum version. (More in using self-managed GitLab on your phone.)
2. Does it tell you when it is your turn? Without push alerts, an app is just a smaller browser. Check what triggers a notification and how quickly. (See how to get GitLab push notifications.)
3. Can you finish the job in it? Approving, merging, commenting on a line and retrying a pipeline are where apps differ most — and where some charge.
4. What does it do with your token? Find out where it is stored and whether any server sees it. A notification server should only ever get a read-only key. (See GitLab token scopes explained.)