Orca IDE vs 6thSense Synapse
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
6thSense Synapse
Transform your phone into a camera control hub. Instantly discover and connect to cameras on your local network without cables or logins. Manage recordings, monitor live status, and perform diagnostics remotely.
- Auto-discovery of cameras
- One-tap recording
- Record All / Stop All functionality
- Live status monitoring
- On-device diagnostics
- Recording playback and export
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6thSense Synapse is a mobile control plane for egocentric robotics data capture. Connect to compatible capture rigs and cameras on your local network, coordinate multi-camera recording, monitor device and storage status, and review captured sessions from the field. BUILT FOR ROBOTICS DATA OPERATIONS - Discover compatible cameras on your local network - Start and stop recording from one control surface - Monitor recording, connectivity, temperature, and storage status when reported by the device - Browse recorded sessions and open available footage - Manage supported camera and network settings Synapse communicates directly with compatible devices over the local network. Available controls and status details depend on the connected device and its software version. OPTIONAL CONTRIBUTOR WORKSPACE Eligible participants in enabled regional programs can use the contributor workspace for account access, regional agreements, supervised camera registration, contribution status and payment information. Participation depends on the applicable published agreements and program availability. Camera remote controls remain available without a contributor account. Recording, uploaded time, approved time and completed payments are separate stages. An authorized operator imports camera storage cards, QC determines usable footage, and an operator approves payments. OPTIONAL SUPPORT Browse the searchable FAQ or choose AI support chat for troubleshooting and requests to the 6thSense team. Sending a message requires your agreement to share support messages, optional photos, contact details and app/camera context with the AI provider and support team. You choose which photos to attach. Camera controls and the FAQ remain available without sending a support message.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: 6thSense Synapse at 5.0 against Orca IDE's 4.7. 6thSense Synapse also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 84%). Orca IDE's advantage is ratings volume (38 vs 4) and chart position (#17 vs unranked). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
6thSense Synapse holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Orca IDE has 38 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 84% of Orca IDE's written reviews are positive against 100% of 6thSense Synapse's.
Orca IDE ships an update every 3 days, 6thSense Synapse weekly. Both last shipped on October 15, 2026.
| Parameter | Orca IDE | 6thSense Synapse |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (38 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 83.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 38 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #17 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 54 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lovecast LLC | 6thSense AI, Inc. |
Customer experience
Orca IDE
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In-app purchases
Orca IDE
No in-app purchases
6thSense Synapse
No in-app purchases









