Comparison

Orca IDE vs Tokens

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

Head to head
About

Orca IDE

Control your coding environment remotely from your phone. Mirror your desktop terminal, manage AI agent sessions, and interact with your code using a smart on-screen keyboard. All your data remains on your desktop, with secure, end-to-end encrypted local network connections.

Highlights
  • Live desktop terminal mirror
  • AI agent session management
  • Full keyboard input
  • Multi-worktree 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

Tokens

Track your AI coding token usage across multiple tools in one place. See your daily and all-time rankings on a global leaderboard and analyze your spending by model, client, and device. Share your progress with customizable profile cards.

Highlights
  • AI coding token usage tracking
  • Global leaderboard
  • Usage breakdown by model, client, device
  • Daily and all-time rankings
  • Home & Lock Screen widgets
  • Shareable profile cards
Features
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Tokens turns your AI coding usage into a scoreboard. Connect your tokens.ci profile and see exactly how many tokens you burn each day across every AI coding tool you use — Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot, and more — all in one place. FEATURES • Global leaderboard — see how you rank against builders worldwide: today, this week, or all-time. • Your profile — daily tokens, cost, sessions, and a full-year contribution graph. • Breakdowns — usage by model, by client, and by device. • Today at a glance — today's tokens, cost, and your rank for the day. • Home & Lock Screen widgets — keep your daily count and rank on your screen. • Share cards — export a clean profile card in light or dark to share anywhere. Tokens reads your public tokens.ci profile — no sign-in required to browse. Just add your username and start tracking. Data is provided by tokens.ci.

Screenshots

Orca IDE4 screens
Tokens3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Orca IDE at 71 against Tokens's 1. Orca IDE also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks) and chart position (#17 vs unranked). Tokens's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Tokens holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Orca IDE has 71 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Orca IDE ships an update every 4 days, Tokens every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Orca IDE versus Tokens: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOrca IDETokens
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (71 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews86.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings71 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
Best chart rank#17 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size47 MB5 MB
Age rating+44+
DeveloperLovecast LLCMOE AI LLC

Customer experience

Orca IDE

All ratings71 ratings
Positive91.5%
Neutral5.6%
Negative2.8%
Written reviews72 reviews
Positive86.1%
Neutral9.7%
Negative4.2%

Tokens

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Orca IDE

No in-app purchases

None

Tokens

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Orca IDE free?
Orca IDE is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tokens free?
Tokens is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Orca IDE or Tokens?
Tokens is rated higher. Orca IDE averages 4.7 out of 5 from 71 ratings, while Tokens averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Orca IDE or Tokens have ads?
Neither Orca IDE nor Tokens shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Orca IDE or Tokens?
Orca IDE ships an update every 4 days, and Tokens every 2 weeks. Most recently, Orca IDE was updated on November 7, 2026 and Tokens on November 8, 2026.

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