Comparison

Pocket Coder vs SottoPet

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

Head to head
About

Pocket Coder

Control your Mac's AI coding agent from your iPhone, anywhere with internet. Run commands, test code, manage Git, and preview projects remotely. Your code stays on your machine.

Highlights
  • Remote Mac control via iPhone
  • AI coding agent prompting
  • Real-time code testing and fixing
  • Git operations (status, diff, commit, push)
  • Live web project previews
  • One-tap deployment to cloud platforms
Features
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Pocket Coder lets you drive Claude Code on your Mac from your iPhone, from anywhere with internet. Run one command on your Mac (curl -fsSL remote-for-claude.netlify.app/install | bash), scan the QR code it shows, and start prompting Claude from your pocket. Your code never leaves your machine. SCAN TO CONNECT • Your Mac shows a QR code. Scan it in the app and you're connected • Or paste the URL and token by hand • Clear messages when something's wrong: Mac script stopped, tunnel address changed, wrong token or Claude Code missing STREAMING CHAT • Real-time responses, word by word as Claude works • Cancel any prompt mid-stream • Per-project chat history, saved locally TEST & FIX • Run your project's test and build commands on your Mac • See pass or fail, the exit code and the output • Send a failure to Claude with one tap, then run it again SAFER GIT • Status, diff, commit and push • Pick exactly which files to commit, stage or unstage them one by one • See your last test result before you commit or push • Clone any of your GitHub repos in seconds LIVE PREVIEW • Vite, Next.js, static HTML, any web project • Frontend runs on your Mac, rendered on your phone MAC CONTROL WITH FEWER TOKENS • Setup installs erisim MCP, so Claude can work with Xcode and Mac apps without screenshots ONE-TAP DEPLOY • Vercel, Netlify, Cloudflare Pages • If your Mac has the CLIs logged in, it just works PRIVATE BY DESIGN • HTTPS via a Cloudflare tunnel straight to your Mac • Bearer-token auth, rotate anytime, stored in the iOS Keychain • Your code never touches our servers. We don't run any • Zero analytics, zero tracking SEVEN LANGUAGES English, Turkish, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, German, Simplified Chinese. HOW IT WORKS 1. On your Mac, run: curl -fsSL remote-for-claude.netlify.app/install | bash 2. Run remote-for-claude. It opens a secure tunnel and shows a QR code 3. Scan it in the app (or paste the URL and token) 4. Start prompting Claude from your phone REQUIREMENTS • A Mac with Node.js (installed automatically if missing) • Claude Code CLI and an Anthropic account • iOS 16 or later Built for developers who want to stay productive without being tied to their desk. Privacy: https://remote-for-claude.netlify.app/privacy.html Website: https://remote-for-claude.netlify.app Claude Code is a product of Anthropic. This app is an independent companion, not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic.

About

SottoPet

Features
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SottoPet is a companion app for the coding agents running on your Mac. It does not work on its own: you need SottoPet for Mac (macOS 12 or later, Apple Silicon), signed in to the same account, and you pair the two by scanning a QR code shown on the Mac. ■ Read the history Every Claude Code and Codex conversation on the paired Mac, newest first. Each one carries a short topic and its current state — working, waiting, done. Open one and you can read it from the beginning, images included. ■ Reply Conversations you started from this app accept further messages. When an agent has stopped to ask for permission or to put a question to you, you answer by tapping one of its options. ■ Start work Pick one of the folders your Mac already trusts, choose Claude or Codex and a model, and send the first message. ■ Watch the limits How much of your Claude and Codex rate limits is spent, next to the speech allowance on your SottoPet account. Each figure says when it arrived, and one that has not been refreshed for a while is marked as old. ■ What this app deliberately cannot do It cannot send an arbitrary command or a filesystem path to your Mac — the format the two sides speak has no field of that shape. Work can only start in a folder the Mac already trusts, and trust is granted on the Mac alone. Conversations started from the phone run read-only. Pairing does not take effect until someone at the Mac confirms it. Either side can undo it. Accounts are created at sotto.pet. The interface is available in English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Spanish.

Screenshots

Pocket Coder4 screens
SottoPet3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: SottoPet at every 2 weeks against Pocket Coder's every 3 months. 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pocket Coder ships an update every 3 months, SottoPet every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Pocket Coder versus SottoPet: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPocket CoderSottoPet
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB56 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developersalih berkay kokesmerDaichi Morita

In-app purchases

None

Pocket Coder

No in-app purchases

None

SottoPet

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pocket Coder free?
Pocket Coder is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SottoPet free?
SottoPet is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Pocket Coder or SottoPet have ads?
Neither Pocket Coder nor SottoPet shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pocket Coder or SottoPet?
Pocket Coder ships an update every 3 months, and SottoPet every 2 weeks. Most recently, Pocket Coder was updated on October 31, 2026 and SottoPet on October 31, 2026.

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