Comparison

Cmdora vs wmux

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

Head to head
About

Cmdora

Features
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Cmdora turns your iPhone into a remote control for your Mac development environment. Run AI coding tasks, trigger builds, tail logs, and approve changes without opening your laptop. Built for iOS developers and engineers who want a compact control surface for their projects, terminal commands, and automation when they are away from the desk. Key capabilities: - Run AI coding tasks (Codex CLI) - the agent proposes changes, nothing is applied without your explicit approval - Get push notifications when a task finishes, fails, or needs your approval - Trigger build and automation tasks - Stream task logs and status updates - Keep your Mac awake while you work - and get notified when it goes on battery - Manage secure remote connections and project workspaces - Keep detailed errors visible when something fails AI tasks require the Codex CLI installed on your Mac. Terminal, builds, and everything else work without it. Cmdora works with a companion coordinator and secure remote runtime. The runtime executes the shell commands and automation scripts you configure on your own development machine. Add the server URL, remote id, and access token in the app to connect your iPhone to your environment.

About

wmux

Control and interact with your AI agents and development workspaces remotely from your phone. Seamlessly pick up where you left off, type commands, and respond to prompts, all while keeping your data secure on your own computer.

Highlights
  • Live terminal control with full keyboard input
  • Read and interact with AI chat conversations
  • Manage workspace panes and tasks
  • Search across sessions and conversations
  • Respond to agent prompts from lock screen
  • Send photos and dictated text
  • Home Screen widget and Live Activity support
Features
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The remote app for wmux desktop. Pair with a QR code and every workspace and session on your computer is on your phone โ€” pick up where you left off, read along, type, and answer. The free wmux desktop app (wmux.app) must be installed on your computer. It works with Windows 10/11 and macOS. Your code, shells and agents stay on your computer, not in the cloud, and there is no account. wmux never calls a model. It only mirrors the terminal on your own computer, so it works however your agents are set up there โ€” with a personal API key, Amazon Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, a company gateway or a local model. WHAT YOU CAN DO โ€ข Watch a live terminal and type into it with a full keyboard โ€” Esc, Tab, Ctrl and the arrows included โ€ข Read the same session as a native chat for Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode: prose, code, diffs, tables, tool calls and the images the agent worked with โ€ข Fleet shows what needs you now โ€” permission prompts, questions and finished work to review โ€” and Workspaces mirrors the desktop sidebar, workspace โ€บ pane โ€บ tasks โ€ข Bots lists the bots and groups wmux runs on your computer: read their conversations, send them a message, and answer their questions and approvals โ€ข Search wmux's conversations, sessions and scrollback on a computer, all at once โ€ข Answer an agent's permission prompt from the lock screen or its card โ€” Yes takes Face ID and a hold โ€” so a run doesn't sit idle until you are back โ€ข Answer with no signal โ€” replies wait in a queue and go out when you are back, and a recovery center gathers anything uncertain โ€ข Send a photo or a dictated line straight into a pane โ€ข Open a pull request, squash-merge it or push from a pane's Source control โ€ข Use it on iPad too, with a readable column and a hardware keyboard โ€ข Keep the count in front of you with a Home Screen widget or a lock screen Live Activity Some features need the latest wmux on your computer. BUILT FOR A PHONE, NOT SHRUNK ONTO ONE Tables wrap to the column instead of scrolling off the edge. Code blocks stay chips until you open them. The conversation groups by speaker so one turn reads as one turn. Everything is legible at arm's length in a dark room, which is where the notification usually finds you. WHAT YOU NEED wmux running on your own Windows or Mac computer โ€” that is where your agents live, and this app is its remote. Get it at wmux.app. Your phone pairs by scanning a QR code and reaches that computer over your Tailscale tailnet, so it works away from home too. NO COMPUTER HANDY? TRY THE DEMO Open the app and tap "Try the demo" at the bottom of the pairing screen. It opens a sample workspace โ€” an approval waiting, three sessions, a full transcript โ€” with nothing connected and nothing sent anywhere. PRIVACY No account. No analytics. No advertising. Your pairing credential lives in this device's Keychain and is sent only to the computer you paired with. Notification contents are sealed on that computer and opened on your phone; the relay in between cannot read them. The lock screen Live Activity carries counts only โ€” numbers, no text โ€” and nothing is stored anywhere along the way.

Screenshots

Cmdora4 screens
wmux4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: wmux at every 2 days against Cmdora's every 4 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cmdora ships an update every 4 weeks, wmux every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 7 level
Cmdora versus wmux: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCmdorawmux
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviewsโ€”100.0% of reviews
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeksEvery 2 days โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetizationโ€”Free
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 โ€” better18.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size12 MB29 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperDinis IshmukhametovWooyoung Kim

In-app purchases

None

Cmdora

No in-app purchases

None

wmux

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cmdora free?
Cmdora is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is wmux free?
wmux is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Cmdora or wmux have ads?
Neither Cmdora nor wmux shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cmdora or wmux?
Cmdora ships an update every 4 weeks, and wmux every 2 days. Most recently, Cmdora was updated on October 28, 2026 and wmux on October 29, 2026.

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