Comparison

PocketSSH vs Orquesta

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ€” with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

PocketSSH

This app provides a secure and responsive terminal experience for connecting to remote hosts. It offers multi-host profile management, flexible authentication options, and a mobile shortcut bar for efficient input on touch devices.

Highlights
  • Multi-host profile management
  • Password and private key authentication
  • Real-time terminal interaction
  • Mobile shortcut bar
  • Light and dark mode personalization
  • Local profile storage
Features
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PocketSSH is a lightweight SSH client built for mobile productivity. It helps you securely connect to remote hosts from your iPhone and work in a responsive terminal experience. Key features: Multi-host profile management: Create, edit, and delete SSH profiles for quick server switching. Flexible authentication: Supports both password login and private key file authentication. Real-time terminal interaction: Run commands with live output in an interactive shell session. Mobile shortcut bar: Built-in ESC, TAB, arrow keys, Ctrl/Alt, common Ctrl combos, and F1โ€“F12 keys for efficient input on touch devices. Personalization options: Light mode, dark mode, and follow-system theme support. Local profile storage: Keep your SSH connection profiles saved locally for daily development and operations tasks. Whether you are a developer, SRE, or IT professional, PocketSSH makes remote server access on mobile simple and efficient.

About

Orquesta

Features
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Orquesta is the companion app for the Orquesta platform. It puts the projects you already run from getorquesta.com in your pocket, so you can see what your coding agents are doing without opening a laptop. WHAT YOU CAN DO โ€ข Projects โ€” every project in your organization, with its agent's live online status and last heartbeat. โ€ข Prompts โ€” the full history of what has been asked of each agent, with status, model, cost and the git branch and commit the work landed on. Queue a new one from the project screen. โ€ข Live logs โ€” open any prompt and follow the agent's timeline as it runs: reasoning, tool calls, tool results and output. โ€ข Sessions โ€” attach to an agent's interactive session and drive it from the phone: a live terminal with a key bar for esc, tab, arrows and ^C, so you can answer a prompt that is blocking the work instead of finding it stalled hours later. โ€ข Team chat โ€” the same channels and threads as the dashboard. Mention a teammate, or address the agent by its @handle and it picks the message up. โ€ข Activity โ€” one feed across every project, so you can see the whole organization at a glance. โ€ข Inbox โ€” billing, team, deployment and system notifications, markable as read. โ€ข Star and tag prompts to keep the ones worth coming back to. SIGNING IN This app is for people who already use Orquesta. It needs an existing Orquesta organization โ€” you cannot create an account from the app. Signing in opens getorquesta.com in your browser to authorize the device, and the resulting token is stored in the device's own secure credential store. You can revoke it at any time from Settings, which deletes the local copy and invalidates it on the server. Other devices keep working. Settings also links to account deletion, which permanently closes your Orquesta account and the data it owns. GOOD TO KNOW Agents run on your own machines, not on your phone. A prompt you queue is picked up by the agent on its next heartbeat, then runs for as long as the work takes โ€” this is asynchronous by design, not a live chat with a model. If a machine is offline, the work waits for it to come back. Interactive sessions are the exception: those are live, and they show what happens from the moment you attach rather than what already scrolled past. The app reads your organization's data and can queue prompts, star and tag them, post to team chat, and mark notifications read. It does not have broad write access to your projects.

Screenshots

PocketSSH3 screens
Orquesta4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Orquesta at none against PocketSSH's 1. PocketSSH's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. PocketSSH sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Orquesta asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PocketSSH ships an update every 5 days, Orquesta every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 6 level
PocketSSH versus Orquesta: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPocketSSHOrquesta
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews100.0% of reviewsโ€”
Update frequencyEvery 5 days โ€” betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesโ€”
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 โ€” better16.4
Further details โ€” not scored
Size18 MB56 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerๅˆฉ้พ™ ๅผ Ehive S.P.A.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

PocketSSH

One-time1
  • PocketSSH Pro$0.99
None

Orquesta

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PocketSSH free?
PocketSSH is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Orquesta free?
Orquesta is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do PocketSSH or Orquesta have ads?
Neither PocketSSH nor Orquesta shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PocketSSH or Orquesta?
PocketSSH ships an update every 5 days, and Orquesta every 2 weeks. Most recently, PocketSSH was updated on October 16, 2026 and Orquesta on October 18, 2026.

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