Comparison

Orca IDE vs ClearJSON

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

ClearJSON

Features
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ClearJSON is a local-first JSON viewer, formatter, validator, and inspector for iPhone and iPad. Paste JSON, open files from Files or iCloud, validate payloads, format readable output, minify compact JSON, sort keys, search paths and values, copy formatted output, and export cleaned JSON. ClearJSON is built for checking API responses, reviewing configuration files, cleaning JSON snippets, debugging payloads, and inspecting nested data. Your JSON content stays private: payloads, searches, filenames, and clipboard contents are processed on device and are not sent to the advertising service. Users who have not made a support purchase may see contextual Google ads. Ad personalization is disabled. Any of the three existing support purchases removes all ads permanently, including verified purchases made in earlier versions.

Screenshots

Orca IDE4 screens
ClearJSON4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Orca IDE at none against ClearJSON's 3. Orca IDE also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 10 days). On price 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. ClearJSON sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Orca IDE asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Orca IDE ships an update every 3 days, ClearJSON every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and September 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Orca IDE versus ClearJSON: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOrca IDEClearJSON
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (25 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews93.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings25 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 10 days
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
Best chart rank#19 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLovecast LLCGrove OU

In-app purchases

None

Orca IDE

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

ClearJSON

One-time3
  • ClearJSON Small Support$0.99
  • ClearJSON Medium Support$2.99
  • ClearJSON Large Support$4.99

Questions

Is Orca IDE free?
Orca IDE is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ClearJSON free?
ClearJSON is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Orca IDE or ClearJSON have ads?
ClearJSON shows ads; Orca IDE does not.
Which is updated more often, Orca IDE or ClearJSON?
Orca IDE ships an update every 3 days, and ClearJSON every 10 days. Most recently, Orca IDE was updated on September 28, 2026 and ClearJSON on September 13, 2026.

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