Comparison

exe.dev vs Intent Mobile

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

Head to head
About

exe.dev

Access and manage your virtual machines and coding agent remotely. Transform your phone into a development environment, taking ideas from concept to production.

Highlights
  • Virtual machine access
  • Coding agent integration
  • Remote development
  • Idea to production workflow
  • Monthly subscription plans
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The exe.dev app gives you access to all of your virtual machines on exe.dev, together with their coding agent, Shelley. Idea to production from your phone. exe.dev offers auto-renewable monthly subscriptions (Small, Medium, Large, and XLarge). Payment is charged to your Apple Account at purchase confirmation. Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://exe.dev/docs/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://exe.dev/docs/privacy-notice

About

Intent Mobile

Manage and monitor large-scale agent coordination projects from your mobile device. Control hundreds of agents across multiple workspaces in real-time, directly from your iPhone or iPad. Requires the desktop application to be running on the same local network.

Highlights
  • Monitor and manage workspaces
  • View agent specs and goals
  • Track task progress
  • Real-time agent conversations
  • Send messages and answer questions
  • Automatic reconnection
Features
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Large-scale agent coordination for developers, from anywhere. Run hundreds of agents in parallel and direct every one of them from your iPhone or iPad. Intent gives each task or project its own workspace with its own team of agents, keeps many workspaces running at once across multiple computers, and Intent Mobile lets you monitor, manage, and drive every workspace from the device in your hand. Intent Mobile requires the Intent desktop app running on a computer on the same local network. - Browse your workspaces and see their status at a glance. - Read the specs guiding your agents, including goals, tasks, and decisions. - Follow notes and documents as the work evolves. - Track task progress across your workspaces. - Follow agent conversations in real time, send messages, and answer questions. Pair by scanning the QR code in Intent’s desktop settings, or enter your connection details manually. Save multiple connections and switch between them at any time. If a connection drops, Intent Mobile reconnects automatically when your computer is reachable again. Intent Mobile connects directly to your computer over an encrypted local connection, without a cloud relay. The mobile app requires no account and includes no analytics or tracking. You can revoke access by rotating the pairing token in the desktop app. Requires iOS 18 or later.

Screenshots

exe.dev4 screens
Intent Mobile4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Intent Mobile at none against exe.dev's 7. Intent Mobile also leads on iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.2). exe.dev's advantage is chart position (#48 vs unranked). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. exe.dev sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month. Intent Mobile asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for exe.dev against 5.0 for Intent Mobile. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 6 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

exe.dev ships an update every 10 days, Intent Mobile weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
exe.dev versus Intent Mobile: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameterexe.devIntent Mobile
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (9 ratings)5.0 (6 ratings) — better
Number of ratings9 — better6
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationSubscriptionFree — better
Best chart rank#48 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Vision Pro — better
Requires iOS26.218.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size146 MB60 MB
Age rating17+4+
Developerssh exe.devSHV Labs

Customer experience

exe.dev

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Intent Mobile

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

7 purchases

exe.dev

Subscriptions7
  • Personal — 2 vCPUs$19.991 Month
  • Individual — Small$24.991 Month
  • Personal — 4 vCPUs$44.991 Month
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  • Individual — Medium$49.991 Month
  • Personal — 8 vCPUs$99.991 Month
  • Individual - Large$99.991 Month
  • Personal — 16 vCPUs$204.991 Month
None

Intent Mobile

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is exe.dev free?
exe.dev is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Intent Mobile free?
Intent Mobile is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, exe.dev or Intent Mobile?
Intent Mobile is rated higher. exe.dev averages 4.9 out of 5 from 9 ratings, while Intent Mobile averages 5.0 from 6 ratings.
Do exe.dev or Intent Mobile have ads?
Neither exe.dev nor Intent Mobile shows ads.
Which is updated more often, exe.dev or Intent Mobile?
exe.dev ships an update every 10 days, and Intent Mobile weekly. Most recently, exe.dev was updated on November 9, 2026 and Intent Mobile on November 10, 2026.

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