Comparison

Orca IDE vs App Chart

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

App Chart

Features
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App Chart helps you explore app rankings by country and compare changes for the apps you care about. Key features - Browse rankings by country, store, category, and free or paid chart - Compare overall and category positions side by side - View the latest seven days that were actually observed - Save apps and countries in one place - Open the exact chart directly from a ranking - Set rank change alerts for saved apps, including rises, falls, chart entries and exits - Use light or dark mode in Korean, English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, or Vietnamese Public rankings are available without signing in. Signing in is required to save and sync apps and use rank change alerts. Allow device notifications to receive push alerts. Rankings may vary by country, store, category, chart, and collection time. App Chart is an independent service and is not operated by Apple or Google.

Screenshots

Orca IDE4 screens
App Chart4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is chart position: Orca IDE at #16 against App Chart's unranked. Orca IDE also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). App Chart's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 days). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

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, App Chart every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
Orca IDE versus App Chart: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOrca IDEApp Chart
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (41 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings41 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
Best chart rank#16 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLovecast LLCSangcheol Jeon

In-app purchases

None

Orca IDE

No in-app purchases

None

App Chart

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Orca IDE free?
Orca IDE is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is App Chart free?
App Chart is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Orca IDE or App Chart have ads?
Neither Orca IDE nor App Chart shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Orca IDE or App Chart?
Orca IDE ships an update every 3 days, and App Chart every 2 days. Most recently, Orca IDE was updated on October 19, 2026 and App Chart on October 6, 2026.

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