Orca IDE vs CC'ed
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.
CC'ed
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Push notifications for agents and automations. Connect any agent, script or automation that can make an HTTP request to your private CC’ed webhook. When work finishes, something fails or your agent needs your attention, CC’ed delivers its message as a native push notification. Use CC’ed to: • Know when an agent finishes a task, hits a blocker or needs your input • Turn agent updates, CI results and monitoring alerts into native pushes • Notify every connected device or target just one • Send plain text or JSON with titles, subtitles, images and grouping Built for private, low-friction workflows: • Ready-made webhook URLs and copy-ready cURL examples • Recent notification history stored on your device • No account and no server-side message history • Webhook contents pass through memory and are discarded after delivery is requested New customers receive 14 days of complimentary hosted delivery. Continue with a monthly or annual auto-renewing subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Prices are shown in the app before purchase. Subscriptions renew unless canceled through your Apple ID. Terms: https://cced.app/terms/ Privacy: https://cced.app/privacy/ Support: https://cced.app/support/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Orca IDE at none against CC'ed's 3. Orca IDE also leads on chart position (#20 vs unranked) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, ads and device support 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. CC'ed sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Orca IDE asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Orca IDE | CC'ed |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (38 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 83.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 38 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Best chart rank | #20 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lovecast LLC | Rui Peres |
In-app purchases
Orca IDE
No in-app purchases
CC'ed
- CCed Plus Monthly$0.991 Month
- CCed Plus Annual$9.001 Year
- CCed Plus Lifetime$25.00









