Orca IDE vs Clow

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.

Clow shows, at a glance, how much is left of your Claude Code usage windows — the 5-hour one and the weekly one — and projects when they should run out at the pace you are working. WHAT IT DOES • Both windows, always in view: percentage, gauge and a countdown to the reset. • An honest projection: "at this pace, you run out at 3:20 PM" — or the relief of "won't run out before the reset". • Alerts at 25%, 50%, 70% and 100% of each window, by notification. • A home screen widget that keeps projecting and counting between refreshes. • Trend: the history of the current window, with the projection dashed to the end. • Rhythm: which hours of the day burn the most quota, from today back to the last 30 days. • Panel mode: full screen in black to leave the phone propped on your desk, with the mascot alive, a giant number and a per-second countdown. • And Clow, a little robot whose mood shifts with your consumption — with a tab to work off the stress when the tokens run out. HOW IT WORKS The app queries the Anthropic API with a minimal request (about 9 tokens of your own quota) just to read your account's usage limit headers. That is where the percentages, the reset times and the status of each window come from. WHAT YOU NEED An account with access to Claude Code and a token you generate yourself, in your own terminal, with the command `claude setup-token`. The app creates no account, has no login and has no subscription of its own. JUST WANT A LOOK? Tap "Explore with sample data" on the first screen: the app opens in full with sample data, no token required. PRIVACY The token stays in your device's Keychain. Nothing is sent to us: the app talks only to the Anthropic API, about your own account. There are no ads, trackers or analytics. Not affiliated with Anthropic. Claude and Claude Code are trademarks of Anthropic, PBC.