Orca IDE vs Omnigent
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Omnigent
This app allows you to remotely manage and monitor your AI agents running on an open-source workspace. Continue your technical workflows, review agent outputs, and switch between sessions seamlessly from your mobile device.
- Remote AI agent supervision
- Cross-device session synchronization
- Monitor agent chats and terminals
- Work with custom YAML agents
- Connect to self-hosted or cloud deployments
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Omnigent is the mobile companion for your Omnigent server: an open-source workspace for supervising AI agents across coding, research, automation, and other technical workflows. Connect to a server you run, sign in, and continue the same sessions you use from desktop or browser. Follow agent work from your phone, send messages, review outputs, and switch between sessions without losing context. Use Omnigent to: - Keep agent chats, sub-agents, terminals, and files in sync across devices - Supervise multiple agents from one interface - Work with custom YAML agents and shared team sessions - Reach self-hosted or cloud-hosted Omnigent deployments This app is a native iOS shell for the Omnigent web UI. You need access to an Omnigent server to use it. For local or private deployments, configure your server URL on the first screen and connect securely.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Orca IDE at 4.7 against Omnigent's 4.3. Orca IDE also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks) and ratings volume (25 vs 3). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Orca IDE holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Orca IDE has 25 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Orca IDE ships an update every 3 days, Omnigent every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Orca IDE | Omnigent |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (25 ratings) — better | 4.3 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 93.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 25 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #18 — better | #148 |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Lovecast LLC | Databricks Inc. |
Customer experience
Orca IDE
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In-app purchases
Orca IDE
No in-app purchases
Omnigent
No in-app purchases





