MuxAgent vs Apperture
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
MuxAgent
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Walk away from your desk. Your AI agent keeps coding. MuxAgent is a mobile command center for AI coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, Github Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, and Goose. Pair your phone with your dev machines, monitor agent activity, and approve or deny tool calls ā all through an end-to-end encrypted connection. THE PROBLEM AI coding agents are powerful, but they need you at your desk. They pause for approvals, wait for input, hit errors. Step away, and everything stops. THE SOLUTION muxagent keeps you connected. Get push notifications when your agent needs attention. Review what it wants to do. Approve or deny with a tap. Your agent keeps working while you grab coffee, commute, or sit in a meeting. CONTROL YOUR AGENTS REMOTELY Start new agent sessions or continue existing ones from your phone. Chat in real time with full Markdown rendering and syntax-highlighted code blocks. Your agent sees exactly what it would see at your terminal. APPROVE WITH CONFIDENCE When your agent wants to edit files or run shell commands, you see the full details first. Review code diffs with proper syntax highlighting. Examine execution plans before they run. Nothing happens without your explicit approval. MULTI-MACHINE MANAGEMENT Running agents on multiple dev machines? muxagent connects to all of them. Switch between machines in one tap. Each connection is independently encrypted. VOICE & IMAGE INPUT Dictate prompts with speech-to-text when typing is inconvenient. Attach screenshots or photos to give your agent visual context. SECURITY All communication is end-to-end encrypted. Your code and prompts are encrypted on your phone and decrypted only on your dev machine. The relay server cannot read your data. Built by developers, for developers. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Third-party names are used solely to identify compatibility. MuxAgent is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by any third-party provider.
Apperture
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Apperture lets you see and control one Mac app right from your iPhone ā not your whole desktop. Apperture mirrors just the app that matters, full-screen on your phone, so it feels like the app is running in your hand. Traditional screen sharing puts a 27-inch desktop on a 6-inch screen and makes you pan, zoom, and hunt for windows. Apperture takes the opposite approach: pick a single running Mac app and it fills your iPhone with a sharp, low-latency live view sized for the screen you're actually holding. BUILT FOR DEVELOPERS ⢠Mirror the iOS Simulator and it feels native: touches map directly, and rotating your phone rotates the simulated app. ⢠Keep working while your Mac builds and runs. Perfect for agent-assisted coding ā let Claude Code or your favorite agent build and launch the app on your Mac, then review and interact with the result from anywhere in the house. ⢠Stream any Xcode-launched Mac app with its real window chrome intact. FULL CONTROL, NOT JUST A VIEW ⢠Tap, drag, long-press for right-click, two-finger scroll ā touch input translated naturally to the Mac. ⢠Type with the iPhone keyboard, including full Unicode text entry. ⢠Browse and run the Mac app's real menu bar commands from a searchable, touch-friendly palette. ⢠Send clipboard text securely between devices. ⢠Fit-width, fit-height, and readable-zoom layout modes in portrait and landscape. PRIVATE BY DESIGN ⢠No accounts. No cloud relay. Your screen never touches our servers. ⢠Pairing starts with a short-lived QR code on your Mac, and the Mac owner must explicitly approve every phone. ⢠Connections work only over private networks ā your Wi-Fi or your own VPN such as Tailscale. Public endpoints are rejected by design. ⢠Every session is encrypted. Pairing trust is stored in the device Keychain and never synced to the cloud. ⢠Review or revoke paired devices anytime. The Mac keeps a local 30-day session history ā device, time, and app names only, never keystrokes or screen contents. GOOD TO KNOW ⢠Apperture requires the free companion Mac app from runapperture.com. It's notarized by Apple and distributed directly because it uses Screen Recording and Accessibility permissions the Mac App Store doesn't allow. ⢠Away from home, you'll need a VPN to reach your Mac ā Tailscale takes about five minutes to set up, works beautifully, and is free for personal use. ⢠Your Mac does all the work, so it needs to be on, awake, and logged in. Apperture is a viewer and controller for your own Mac, not a way to run Mac apps on iPhone. ⢠Apperture streams one selected window at a time ā that focus is the point. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: MuxAgent at none against Apperture's 1. MuxAgent also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 weeks) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). 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. Apperture sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. MuxAgent asks for nothing beyond the download.
MuxAgent ships an update every 2 days, Apperture every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MuxAgent | Apperture |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days ā better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No ā better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 ā better | 18.0 |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LaLanMo | LAND MK 1 |
In-app purchases
MuxAgent
No in-app purchases
Apperture
- Early Adopter$24.99









