Orca IDE vs Agenton Pocket

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.

Agenton Pocket is a native iOS remote for the coding agent running in your terminal. Start a task at your desk, then watch it, scroll the transcript, and tap Accept or Stop from your phone — over your own network, with no cloud in between. PRIVATE BY ARCHITECTURE No accounts, no relay servers, no telemetry. The app talks only to a daemon on your own machine, over a network path you control — a Tailscale hostname, your LAN, or an SSH tunnel. Your code and your session never touch anyone else's box. BUILT FOR THE TERMINAL - A real terminal with native scrollback panning and momentum. - A button pad with color-coded Accept / Stop and haptics on every press. - Two custom keys you can hold-to-rebind to whatever your agent needs. - Speaks the same wire protocol as the desktop TUI and web client. TRY IT WITH NO SETUP Tap "Try the demo" on first launch for a canned offline session — the whole interface, no server required. OPEN SOURCE The code is open source (GPL-3.0). Read exactly what runs on your machine: https://github.com/nduwork/agenton-pocket The app is free.