Xreviews vs Lochan
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Xreviews
Manage and respond to your Apple App Store reviews directly from your iPhone or iPad. This native app allows you to search, sort, and filter reviews, and even view them offline after initial import. Designed for developers by developers, it offers widgets for at-a-glance review monitoring.
- View and manage app reviews
- Respond to reviews directly
- Search, sort, and filter reviews
- Offline review access
- Home screen widgets
- Support for multiple accounts
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Xreviews is a native iPhone and iPad app that allows you to view and manage reviews for your Apple App Store apps. Just sign in with your App Store Connect API keys, and we'll import customer reviews for all of your apps. You can search, sort, and filter reviews by keyword, date, rating, and more. Xreviews also lets you respond to App Store reviews directly from the app. You can even filter out reviews that you already responded to from your feed. Xreviews is a modern, native iOS app designed for indie developers by indie developers with details that make it a joy to use. For example, our widgets allow you to see the latest app reviews right from your Home Screen. For our power users, Xreviews supports multiple App Store accounts. Have too many apps? You can hide apps for which you don't need to see reviews. And once the initial import completes, you can view all customer reviews offline. Xreviews is the best app review manager for iOS and iPadOS.
Lochan
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Your coding agents keep working when you step away. Lochan is how you keep up with them, calmly. When Claude Code, Codex or any other agent on your computer stops to ask a question, open its real terminal on your phone, read what it did, and answer. Then get back to your walk. A CALM VIEW OF A BUSY HERD Every agent on the machine at a glance, with a line on where each one left off. The ones waiting on you always come first. - Tiles: the whole herd as a grid that moves as your agents do - Board: Blocked, Working, Done and Idle as columns you swipe through - Projects: agents grouped by the project they are working in ASK THE SHEPHERD One question, the whole herd. The Shepherd is an agent on your computer that reads every other pane. Ask it what needs you, what changed or whether anything is stuck, and it answers from what is on the screens, with a link to each pane it mentions. It runs Claude Code by default, or Codex, Pi, OpenCode or Grok. ANY AGENT CAN JOIN THE HERD Lochan does not plug into your agent. It opens the terminal the agent is already running in, so it works with Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Grok, OpenCode, Aider and anything else with a prompt. A new agent works the day it ships. A REAL TERMINAL, IN YOUR POCKET Tap any agent for the actual session: full output, scrollback and a keyboard. MAKE THE KEYS YOUR OWN Two rows of keys sit above the terminal. Drag any key to either row, switch off the ones you never use, and add your own: - Text keys for the commands you repeat, like /compact, /usage or /model sonnet - Chord keys for Ctrl, Option and Shift combos, like your tmux prefix or Ctrl-R SHARE A SCREENSHOT WITH YOUR AGENT Pick a photo, take one of the screen in front of you, or send a file. It lands on your computer and its path goes into the prompt, ready for you to finish and send. SAY IT. CHECK IT. SEND IT. Dictate a long instruction, read the transcript, and send it only when it reads right. Or write it in a real text box, with a draft that waits if you get pulled away. RUN THE HERD FROM YOUR PHONE Start a new agent in any project, rename it, and close it when it is done. BUILT FOR A PHONE Lochan tells each agent it is being driven from a phone, so it leads with the answer, keeps replies short and batches its questions. PAIRED IN ONE SCAN Run one line on your Mac or Linux machine, then scan the code it shows. Your phone makes its own key, and it stays in the phone's Keychain. Nothing to type, no private key to copy. Save every machine you own and switch between them from the title bar. No account, and no Lochan server in between: your phone talks to your computers over SSH. Away from home you need a route to them, and Tailscale is the two-minute version. ALSO IN LOCHAN: A PRIVATE AI CHAT Chat with Apple's on-device model, open models downloaded to your phone, or cloud models with your own API key. Conversations branch instead of overwriting, and you can share one with a link we cannot read. Lochan works with Herdr, the terminal workspace for AI coding agents, on the computers you own.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Lochan at none against Xreviews's 1. Xreviews's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Xreviews sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Lochan asks for nothing beyond the download.
Xreviews ships an update every 3 weeks, Lochan fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Xreviews | Lochan |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 63 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Furnace Creek Software LLC | Purplecones, LLC |
In-app purchases
Xreviews
- Pro: One Time Purchase$4.99
Lochan
No in-app purchases









