Comparison

Orca IDE vs MaestroDeck

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

MaestroDeck

Features
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MaestroDeck brings your cloud E2E test suite to your pocket. Run Maestro end-to-end tests for your apps in the cloud, and follow every job live from your iPhone — no laptop required. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Watch test runs in real time — see each job pass, fail, or run. • Drill into any run — flows, timing and a clear pass/fail breakdown, all in one tap. • Track quality at a glance — pass-rate trends, outcomes and platform stats in Insights. • Never miss a result — push notifications and Live Activities the moment a run finishes. • Glance from your Home Screen — widgets with your latest run status. • Manage API keys to trigger and integrate runs from your CI. BUILT FOR MOBILE TEAMS Whether you ship daily or run nightly regression suites, MaestroDeck keeps your results one glance away. Choose the plan that fits — from a handful of runs to thousands a month. MaestroDeck is the companion app for maestrodeck.cloud. Sign in with the same account as your web dashboard.

Screenshots

Orca IDE4 screens
MaestroDeck4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Orca IDE at every 3 days against MaestroDeck's every 3 months. Orca IDE also leads on chart position (#18 vs unranked) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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

Orca IDE ships an update every 3 days, MaestroDeck every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
Orca IDE versus MaestroDeck: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOrca IDEMaestroDeck
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (48 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews86.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings48 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
Best chart rank#18 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.2
Further details — not scored
Size41 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLovecast LLCEthan Morisset

In-app purchases

None

Orca IDE

No in-app purchases

None

MaestroDeck

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Orca IDE free?
Orca IDE is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is MaestroDeck free?
MaestroDeck is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Orca IDE or MaestroDeck have ads?
Neither Orca IDE nor MaestroDeck shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Orca IDE or MaestroDeck?
Orca IDE ships an update every 3 days, and MaestroDeck every 3 months. Most recently, Orca IDE was updated on October 23, 2026 and MaestroDeck on October 8, 2026.

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