Orca IDE vs Tatu Code

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.

Tatu is a coding agent that lives in your terminal. This app is its remote: follow every session from your phone, answer when it asks, and review what it changed. TATU MUST BE INSTALLED ON YOUR COMPUTER This app does not run code by itself. Install Tatu on your computer or server, connect it to the app by scanning a QR code, and your sessions show up here. EVERY SESSION, EVERY MACHINE One list with all the computers you paired and their live sessions. At a glance you see which ones are working, which are waiting for you and which have finished. ANSWER WHEN IT ASKS When the agent needs a decision, you get a push notification. Open it, pick an option or answer in your own words, and the agent carries on. A finished run or an error arrives the same way. WATCH IT WORK Follow the conversation as it happens: the agent's messages, its tool calls and the plan it is working through, step by step. REVIEW THE CHANGES See what changed in your project: the files, and the diff of each one, right from the chat. SEND IT WORK Type a message, attach a photo, dictate with the microphone, or queue several messages while it works. Switch the model and how hard it thinks without leaving the chat. When Tatu's daemon runs on your computer, you can also start a new session in one of your projects, even in its own git worktree. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Pairing is by QR code, and you can remove a computer from the app at any time. The relay that connects the app to your machine never reads what a session says. MORE • Background tasks: check their output and stop them • Context and usage of your accounts • Light and dark themes • Resume or branch from an earlier message Tatu is curious, persistent and careful. Now it fits in your pocket.