Comparison

Orca IDE vs Ciaooo

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
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

Ciaooo

Features
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Your agents keep working. You keep living. Claude Code runs on your own machine. When it stops to ask, your phone gets the question. Answer with a tap, and it keeps going. WHILE YOU WERE OUT 2:47 PM. You leave. Claude Code is mid release in ~/dev/acme-api. 3:12 PM. It hits the one thing it cannot decide alone. 3:13 PM. You read the plan in the lunch line and tap Allow. 3:19 PM. Shipped. Your laptop never opened. WHAT YOU GET A card for the quick yes. The question arrives as a push and answers like a text. The real terminal for everything else. Your actual session, live from your machine, for when you want to look around first. A trackpad. Swipe instead of hunting arrow keys on a phone. Dictation. Say the next prompt at the speed of thought, not of one thumb. Every machine you own. macOS, Linux, WSL. Pair them all, one app. YOUR CODE NEVER MOVES End to end encrypted, so the relays that carry your traffic cannot read a byte of it. No account, because pairing is a QR code between your phone and your machine. No telemetry. Ciao phones home to your machine and nowhere else. SETUP IS ONE COMMAND curl -fsSL https://ciaooo.app/install.sh | sh It ends at a QR code. Scan it with the app. Then go. WATCHING IS FREE. ACTING IS PRO. Pairing, sessions, live output and every notification are free forever. Sending, steering and answering your agents is Ciao Pro, and the first 20 are on the house. Ciao Pro is $9.99 per month or $89.99 per year, and a new subscription starts with a free week. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when the free week ends. The subscription renews automatically unless it is turned off at least 24 hours before the period ends, and you can manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: https://ciaooo.app/privacy

Screenshots

Orca IDE4 screens
Ciaooo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Orca IDE at every 3 days against Ciaooo's every 2 weeks. Orca IDE also leads on chart position (#20 vs unranked) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Orca IDE ships an update every 3 days, Ciaooo every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Orca IDE versus Ciaooo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOrca IDECiaooo
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (32 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews87.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings32 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
Best chart rank#20 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size41 MB33 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLovecast LLCBojan Stefanovic

In-app purchases

None

Orca IDE

No in-app purchases

None

Ciaooo

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Orca IDE free?
Orca IDE is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ciaooo free?
Ciaooo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Orca IDE or Ciaooo have ads?
Neither Orca IDE nor Ciaooo shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Orca IDE or Ciaooo?
Orca IDE ships an update every 3 days, and Ciaooo every 2 weeks. Most recently, Orca IDE was updated on October 11, 2026 and Ciaooo on October 1, 2026.

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