BuildFeed vs Orca IDE
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BuildFeed
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BuildFeed is a personalized news app for AI developers who want to stay current without information overload. It curates relevant updates across LLMs, AI agents, RAG, tooling, MLOps, and modern engineering workflows, helping you discover high-signal content faster. You can tailor your feed by preferred tech stacks and AI topics, save important posts for later, and quickly filter what matters to your work. BuildFeed is designed to deliver clear, focused, developer-first updates so you can track trends, learn continuously, and make better technical decisions.
Orca IDE
This app mirrors your desktop terminal sessions, including AI agent interactions, directly to your iPhone. It provides full keyboard input and multi-terminal support for seamless remote coding management. All processing remains on your desktop, ensuring your data stays secure.
- Live desktop terminal mirror
- AI agent session management
- Full keyboard input
- Multi-worktree, multi-terminal support
- Phone-fit zoom and smart keyboard
- Background command execution
- End-to-end encrypted pairing
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Orca Mobile is the companion app for Orca, the open-source agentic coding workspace for macOS, Linux, and Windows. Pair your iPhone to your desktop in seconds and pick up a terminal session from the couch, the kitchen, or across the office. WHAT IT DOES • Live mirror of your desktop terminal, including running AI agent sessions (Claude Code, Codex, custom CLIs). • Full keyboard input — type, tab-complete, Ctrl-C, scroll back, all from the phone. • Multi-worktree, multi-terminal: jump between projects with a tap. • Phone-fit zoom and a smart on-screen keyboard with quick Ctrl/Alt accessory keys and shortcuts. • Background long-running commands and get a notification when a TUI goes idle (e.g. when Claude finishes thinking). HOW IT WORKS Orca Mobile is a thin client. Nothing runs on your phone except the viewer. Your code, your shells, your AI agents — all of that stays on your desktop. The phone shows you what's happening and forwards your keystrokes back over an encrypted local-network connection. Pairing is end-to-end encrypted. Your desktop generates a one-time keypair and shows a QR code; you scan it from the app. After that, all traffic between phone and desktop is sealed with that pair's keys. PRIVACY • No analytics SDK, no crash reporter, no third-party SDKs of any kind in the iOS app. • Pairing tokens and your preference list live in the app's own sandbox. The app's traffic to your desktop is end-to-end encrypted on your local network only. • The Orca desktop app collects anonymized usage metrics per the policy at https://www.onorca.dev/privacy. The mobile app itself does not. • Open source: every line is auditable at https://github.com/stablyai/orca. REQUIREMENTS • An iPhone (iOS 16+) on the same Wi-Fi as your desktop. • The Orca desktop app, free, from https://www.onorca.dev/ or https://github.com/stablyai/orca/releases.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Orca IDE at every 3 days against BuildFeed's every 3 weeks. Orca IDE also leads on chart position (#16 vs unranked). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
BuildFeed ships an update every 3 weeks, Orca IDE every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BuildFeed | Orca IDE |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.6 (41 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 83.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 41 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Best chart rank | — | #16 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | PINSU SAS | Lovecast LLC |
In-app purchases
BuildFeed
No in-app purchases
Orca IDE
No in-app purchases









