Orca IDE vs Meshcode

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.

Meshcode mobile is the companion app for the AI coding you run on your Mac/PC — a remote control for your desktop sessions, plus coding focus music and phone↔desktop file transfer. • Enter the 6-digit code from the desktop app to log in + pair (no email/password) • See all your online desktops on one account • Watch in-progress AI coding sessions live and send prompts straight from your phone • Approve or reject tool-execution requests • Browse your project files and move them between phone and desktop • Coding BGM: a built-in player that streams focus music for your sessions • Meet your Meshling — the coding pet that grows as you ship Your code never leaves your desktop — execution always happens on your machine. Connection is end-to-end via iroh QUIC P2P, device-to-device only. Note: the desktop Meshcode app must be running. Sign up & download: https://meshcode.ai