ActivitySmith vs Ciaooo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
ActivitySmith
Stream real-time progress and outcomes of long-running tasks to your iOS device's Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. Receive high-signal alerts for critical events via push notifications. Integrates with various backend services and development tools.
- Live Activities for Lock Screen and Dynamic Island
- Push Notifications for alerts
- Update via HTTP requests
- Track CI/CD, jobs, and events
- Pair devices and create API keys
- Widgets for lock screen metrics
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ActivitySmith lets you send Live Activities and Push Notifications to your iOS device(s) from any backend. Keep long-running work visible at a glance: stream progress, step-by-step status, and outcomes to your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. Use Push Notifications for high-signal alerts (failures, incidents, signups, sales, crashes, etc). Anything that can make an HTTP request can update a Live Activity or send a Push Notification - CI/CD, servers, cron, agents, webhooks, or plain curl. Use cases: - CI/CD deployments and build pipelines - Long-running jobs (migrations, backups, ETL) and background agents - On-call alerts and incident workflows - Business events (sales, signups, trial conversions) - Home Automation How it works: - Install ActivitySmith and pair your device - Create API key - Send custom Push Notifications with a simple API call - Trigger Live Activities to track deployments or any other long-running processes in a real-time - Target one or more paired devices as needed - Use widgets to track key metrics from your lock screen SDKs: Node.js, PHP, Ruby, Python, Go, CLI Integrations: GitHub, GitLab, Vercel, Railway, Netlify, Sentry, Linear, Zapier, n8n, and more...
Ciaooo
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Your agents keep working. You keep living. Claude Code runs on your own machine. When it stops to ask, your phone gets the question. Answer with a tap, and it keeps going. WHILE YOU WERE OUT 2:47 PM. You leave. Claude Code is mid release in ~/dev/acme-api. 3:12 PM. It hits the one thing it cannot decide alone. 3:13 PM. You read the plan in the lunch line and tap Allow. 3:19 PM. Shipped. Your laptop never opened. WHAT YOU GET A card for the quick yes. The question arrives as a push and answers like a text. The real terminal for everything else. Your actual session, live from your machine, for when you want to look around first. A trackpad. Swipe instead of hunting arrow keys on a phone. Dictation. Say the next prompt at the speed of thought, not of one thumb. Every machine you own. macOS, Linux, WSL. Pair them all, one app. YOUR CODE NEVER MOVES End to end encrypted, so the relays that carry your traffic cannot read a byte of it. No account, because pairing is a QR code between your phone and your machine. No telemetry. Ciao phones home to your machine and nowhere else. SETUP IS ONE COMMAND curl -fsSL https://ciaooo.app/install.sh | sh It ends at a QR code. Scan it with the app. Then go. WATCHING IS FREE. ACTING IS PRO. Pairing, sessions, live output and every notification are free forever. Sending, steering and answering your agents is Ciao Pro, and the first 20 are on the house. Ciao Pro is $9.99 per month or $89.99 per year, and a new subscription starts with a free week. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when the free week ends. The subscription renews automatically unless it is turned off at least 24 hours before the period ends, and you can manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: https://ciaooo.app/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: ActivitySmith at 18.0 against Ciaooo's 26.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ActivitySmith ships an update weekly, Ciaooo every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ActivitySmith | Ciaooo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | โ |
| Update frequency | Weekly โ better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | โ |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad โ better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 โ better | 26.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Adam Bardon | Bojan Stefanovic |
In-app purchases
ActivitySmith
No in-app purchases
Ciaooo
No in-app purchases









