Exec Terminal vs Drover
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
Exec Terminal
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Exec Terminal is a terminal workspace for iPhone and iPad, built for developers, operators, and anyone who needs secure command-line access on the go. TERMINAL FEATURES ā FREE ⢠Connect to your servers with SSH or Mosh ⢠Run a local shell on your device ⢠Save connections and command snippets ⢠Restore terminal sessions and work across multiple servers ⢠Protect access with Face ID or Touch ID ⢠Keep SSH credentials in the iOS Keychain Terminal features remain free and do not require an account or subscription. AI THAT FITS YOUR WORKFLOW Use local AI with supported Apple Intelligence devices, an on-device model, or your own Ollama endpoint. Local AI options do not use Exec Cloud and do not require an Exec Terminal Pro subscription. For cloud assistance, choose Exec Cloud: ⢠Sign in with Apple without sharing your name or email with Exec Terminal ⢠Start with a limited free allowance ⢠Ask for concise command-line help ⢠Optionally include a bounded, redacted portion of terminal context ⢠Use Agent mode to work through multi-step terminal tasks with local tool execution and dangerous-command confirmation EXEC TERMINAL PRO Exec Terminal Pro is an auto-renewable monthly or annual subscription that raises the fair-use limits for Exec Cloud AI and Agent features. Current prices and subscription periods are shown in the App before purchase. Pro is optional; SSH, Mosh, the local terminal, and local AI remain available without it. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can restore purchases or open Manage Subscription from the App. PRIVACY BY DESIGN Terminal context sharing is off by default. Exec Cloud prompts and responses are processed in real time and are not stored in the gateway database. The App does not use advertising or cross-app tracking. Privacy Policy: https://execterminal.com/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://execterminal.com/terms/ Support: https://execterminal.com/support/
Drover
Supervise AI coding agents running on your computer directly from your phone. View sessions as a chat, interact with prompts via buttons, and receive notifications when agents need your input. Connects directly via SSH with no intermediary servers.
- Supervise AI coding agents
- View sessions as chat
- Interact with prompts via buttons
- Receive agent status notifications
- Direct SSH connection
- Voice dictation
- Attach photos to agents
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Drover is a mobile client for the AI coding agents you run under Herdr on your own computer. It turns them into something you can supervise from your phone. It is not a mobile terminal. Drover speaks the agent's language: it renders a running session as a readable chat, turns permission prompts into buttons you can tap, and tells you the moment an agent is waiting on you. NO SERVER IN BETWEEN Drover connects straight from your device to your own machine over SSH. There is no service in the middle. Your transcripts, your commands and your code go to your machine and nowhere else ā the developer of this app cannot see them. WHAT YOU CAN DO ⢠See every agent and its status at a glance ā waiting for you, working, done ⢠Read the session as a chat, with Markdown, syntax-highlighted code and diffs ⢠Answer an agent's permission prompt by tapping a button instead of typing into a raw terminal pane ⢠Send follow-up instructions, cycle the agent's mode, or dictate by voice ⢠Attach a photo from your camera or library for the agent to look at ⢠Get a notification the moment an agent is blocked and needs you ⢠Switch between several machines, or watch them all in one list TRY IT WITH NO SETUP Tap "Try the demo" on the first screen. It runs a scripted session entirely on your device, with no host and no connection, so you can see how Drover works before setting anything up. WHAT YOU NEED Drover is a client for a machine you already own. To use it for real you need a computer running Herdr (herdr.dev) with your coding agents in it, SSH access to that machine with key-based authentication, and Herdr 0.8.0 or newer. PRIVACY Speech recognition runs entirely on your device ā Drover will not fall back to a server. Notifications carry a fixed message and never any of your transcript. Your SSH key is stored in the iOS Keychain and never leaves your device. Drover is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the Herdr project, Anthropic, OpenAI, or GitHub, and is not certified by any of them.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Drover at none against Exec Terminal's 2. Drover also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.6). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Exec Terminal sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Drover asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Exec Terminal | Drover |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | ā | 100.0% of reviews |
| Update frequency | ā | Every 5 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No ā better |
| Monetization | ā | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 15.0 ā better |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ilia Khabadaev | KEISUKE NISHITANI |
In-app purchases
Exec Terminal
- Exec Terminal Pro Monthly$9.991 Month
- Exec Terminal Pro Annual$69.991 Year
Drover
No in-app purchases









