OpenRemote vs Tailscode
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
OpenRemote
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Control your AI coding agents from anywhere, right from your iPhone. Connect to your development machine running coding agents and interact with them in real time — without being at your desk. Step away from your desk, get notified when a decision is needed, and respond in a tap. KEY FEATURES - Real-time session streaming — follow every action your agent takes as it happens - Approval controls — review and approve or deny every file edit, command, or action before it runs - Plan mode — let your agent plan first, and validate the approach before any change is made - Voice input — dictate prompts hands-free with speech-to-text - Image attachments — send screenshots or photos to your agent - Session history — browse past sessions and their full output - Multi-provider — works with Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and Qwen Coder HOW IT WORKS 1. Install the free OpenRemote CLI on your development machine 2. Sign in with the same account on your iPhone 3. Start a session from your phone — your agent begins working on your machine 4. Watch the output live, approve actions, and guide the agent from wherever you are Built for developers who want to stay in control of their AI agents without being tied to their computer. Free and open source. No subscriptions, no in-app purchases. You bring your own API credentials from Anthropic, OpenAI, or Alibaba — your prompts and output stay private.
Tailscode
Interact with AI agents like Claude Code and Oh My Pi from your phone. Monitor and approve commands, view code changes, and manage conversations live on your lock screen. All data is transmitted point-to-point over your private network.
- Live Lock Screen Activities for conversations
- Approve commands and answer agent questions
- View code diffs and output inline
- Manage multiple servers and conversations
- Track conversation costs and model usage
- End-to-end encrypted communication
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Send a prompt to Claude Code, opencode or Oh My Pi from your phone, pocket it, and watch the turn finish on your Lock Screen. Approve the risky command, answer the agent's question, read every diff — from anywhere on your own Tailscale network. WHAT YOU NEED A Mac or Linux machine on your tailnet (Tailscale is free for personal use) running one of your agents: opencode, Claude Code through the open-source claude-bridge, or Oh My Pi through the open-source omp-bridge. Set-up is three verified steps, and a built-in demo lets you try every screen before you wire anything. THE TURN, LIVE ON YOUR LOCK SCREEN • A Live Activity per conversation: what it is doing, for how long, and how many tools it has run. • An approval request alerts you; a finished turn lingers with its outcome. Tap to land in the exact chat. • Updates arrive by push while the app is suspended. A NATIVE TRANSCRIPT, NOT A TERMINAL • Streaming text written at the model's own speed, with thinking and tool runs folded into readable groups. • Diffs, commands and their real output inline; syntax-highlighted code with byte-exact copy. • Allow once, always, or deny — without leaving the chat. Agent questions become tappable cards. • Queue the next message while a turn runs, edit it before it goes, or stop the turn on the server. • Every picture the agent hands you, in a gallery you can zoom, save or share. EVERY MACHINE ON ONE BOARD • All your servers' conversations in one list, live status first, grouped by project. • Read the repository before you trust the change: branch, staged, changed, untracked, and the diff of any file. • Subagents dock inside the turn that spawned them; a compaction is drawn as a seam with what it kept. • Slash commands from the server's own catalog, per-message model and reasoning effort, forking. KNOW WHAT IT COSTS • Every conversation priced, every month totalled across machines — by model, project and tool. • Plan limits and quotas for Claude, Grok, Ollama Cloud, DeepSeek and more, on Home and in a widget. YOURS, END TO END • Point-to-point over your tailnet. No relay servers, no account, no analytics, nobody reading your code. • Programmatic UIKit, Swift 6, Liquid Glass on iOS 26. Dark mode, Dynamic Type, haptics. • Open source under GPL-3.0 — the app, the engine, and both bridges. FREE, WITH AN HONEST PRO The free app is the complete core: one server, full chat, approvals, attachments, models, forking, and Live Activities. Tailscode Pro is a one-time purchase, no subscription: multiple saved servers, concurrent Live Activities, and a supporter badge. Tailscode is independent open-source software: not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic, Tailscale Inc., the opencode project or Oh My Pi. Privacy policy: https://midgarcorp.cc/tailscode/privacy Source code: https://github.com/guitaripod/Tailscode
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: OpenRemote at none against Tailscode's 4. OpenRemote also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Tailscode sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. OpenRemote asks for nothing beyond the download.
OpenRemote ships an update every 4 days, Tailscode every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | OpenRemote | Tailscode |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ulycorp | Midgar Oy |
In-app purchases
OpenRemote
No in-app purchases
Tailscode
- Small Tip$2.99
- Generous Tip$9.99
- Tailscode Pro$14.99
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- Lavish Tip$19.99









