Orca IDE vs Sixant

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.

Free for a limited time — all Pro features unlocked. Sixant puts your AI coding agent in your pocket. Drive Claude Code and Codex — running on your own Mac, Linux or Windows computer — straight from your iPhone. Start tasks, watch output stream live, review diffs, approve tool calls, and manage git, from anywhere. When you need hands on the machine, Remote Desktop puts its screen on your phone. Your computer does the work; Sixant is the remote. FEATURES • Remote-control Claude Code and Codex on your computer • Live streaming output as the agent works • Approve or deny tool calls and permission prompts from your phone • Review diffs and commit / push with git, right from chat • Multiple windows — several projects or agents at once • Push notifications and a Lock Screen Live Activity when a long task finishes or needs you • Voice input — dictate instead of typing • Send photos and screenshots for the agent to see • Supervisor mode — let the agent run multiple rounds autonomously • Remote file manager — browse, zip, move and download files on your computer • Share a chat as a web link so someone can follow along • Works away from home over an encrypted relay (the relay forwards ciphertext only — it can never read your content) — no public IP or port-forwarding • End-to-end encrypted phone-to-computer link • Interface in six languages SIXANT PRO (one-time purchase, optional — currently free) • Remote Desktop — the computer's screen on your phone, with your finger as the mouse • Switch engines and accounts, with automatic quota failover across accounts • Unlimited parallel windows and multiple computers • SSH terminal + SFTP file transfer to any server • MCP, Hooks and Skills configuration panels • Proxy settings for the CLIs on your computer • Share a local port from your computer via a time-limited HTTPS link (up to 24 hours) • Usage and quota statistics No computer? Spin up a cloud server from the app with your own cloud account keys (optional). Sixant is a companion app: it requires a computer running the free Sixant daemon and your own Claude or Codex account.