Orca IDE Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience83.3% of reviews
Neutral9.5% of reviews
Negative experience7.1% of reviews

~ Based on 42 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is Orca IDE Safe?

Orca IDE appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Orca IDE is 85/100.

This assessment is based on 41 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.6/5.

Safety Analysis

87.8% of ratings point to a safe experience
7.3% of ratings suggest some concerns
4.9% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 41 App Store ratings for Orca IDE.

Is Orca IDE Legit?

Orca IDE appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Orca IDE is 68/100.

Based on 68 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Mobile App feels like second thought

I love Orca - don’t get me wrong there. I’d consider myself a power user as I have daily used the desktop app for the past 4-6 months. I consistently use 4-5 different models every week at the same time to work on large projects from my hobbies, personal projects, career/job work, etc. and being able to spawn everything from your device remotely is the biggest reason I moved to using Orca instead of another IDE or just using herdr in the terminal. It’s an amazing tool to amplify your capabilities and use everything to the max potential.

My biggest complaint has really been with the mobile app.

I personally don’t like the dark mode for the desktop app, it stays in light mode 90% of the time. Not having the same personalization and even settings menu as the desktop app is frustrating at times. I’ll be away from my host machine and wish I could look at the same settings the desktop app displays. Even the actual terminal/cli/chat interface is functionally different than the desktop app with what hyperlinked files it lets you open and view in an additional tab. The mobile app would be top tier if it was just an exact port of the desktop app. I hope the devs can make this happen eventually :)
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Fenomenal.

Awesome mobile app that allows me to manage and execute my work in my phone wherever I’m at. Congrats Orca team for the great work. Can’t believe this is free.

Fantastic app.

Its value is in the simplicity - worth an install if you use the desktop app. If you’re precious about your data being proxies via their relay, use your own VPN.

Couldn’t recommend enough.

Meh

Needs human review. Can’t scroll up properly in open code, terminal buffer overflow (which is fixed on git upstream but not pushed to the App Store), when an agent finishes in a work tree their history just gets deleted and you can’t restore it from the agent history. Bit of a joke

Brilliant app! Thank you!

Brilliant app can connect to my Opencode and works perfect. The latest update has sped so much up! Thank you to the team!

Best IOS ADE

This is literally the best remote access tool to control and maintain AI agents. Auto reconnects, fast and easy setup, no crashes, voice models - this app is the best app to choose from, for managing your agents. Especially the remote browser feature, and ease of use in multiple tabs - favorite ones
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Disconnects a lot mid session

Really great tool but it just disconnects so often mid session no matter the network - using Tailscale. Otherwise very good tool but unusable like this

打开会话上下滑动卡死

当会话上下文比较多时,打开会话会明显卡顿,体验不好,希望优化一下🙏

Love this app!

5 stars. On my dock on iPad and iphone. Use this 24x7 for
Omachy machine running my agents

Issues

After the last update stopped working and don’t connect wity my laptop

用的好就是神器

很好

Stable and handy

Great app, i found it super helpful and pretty stable. I would make some minor improvements from a UX point of view, with the text too small in a few area, even to tap. However, I def recommend it!
I also use the android app, with the same feedback

No Way to Close Terminal Windows on iPad

This app works well overall, but there is a major missing feature on iPad: you cannot close a terminal window. Once a terminal session is open, there is no close button, and no option in the menu to dismiss it. This makes it difficult to manage multiple sessions and leaves the interface cluttered. Please add the ability to close terminal windows or tabs on iPad, just like on desktop. Until then, the iPad experience feels incomplete.
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덕분에 집가면서 야근해요

와웅 신난닭

My favorite coding app

After using Orca, it’s hard to use any other harness by itself.

Really good

Compared to herdr-remote this is amazingly smooth and has an insane amount of features.

opencode 支持 chatui

目前 opencode 不支持 chatUI 渲染容易卡死,可以支持吗

快適

スマホから遠隔開発できるアプリを探していたが、一番使いやすいです。アプリ内でissueから即ワークスペースを作れるので非常に快適。
またそのままPCで作業を引き継げるのも良いです。

一点だけ、スマホで物理キーボードを使っているとLive Inputの “Ctrl+a” “Ctrl+E” が機能しないようです。正確にはカーソルの位置は移動しているが、カーソルの描画位置が更新されないように思われます。

we need opencode chat ui support

we need opencode chat ui support^_^

Answer and Reasoning display

Pretty good client. However, the current version has both the agent answer and reasoning processes displayed, seems the collapse doesn’t take effort, but you click collapse it reveal the same thought processes in a popup with raw JSON in red. Also everything is displayed above the user’s request, both the actual answer and the reasoning text.
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