Comparison

Reachy Mini vs Sill

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Reachy Mini

Control a wireless robot directly from your smartphone. Connect to Wi-Fi or 5G to access a growing ecosystem of interactive applications, from AI conversations and games to smart home integrations and remote monitoring. No coding experience is needed.

Highlights
  • Direct smartphone control
  • Wi-Fi/5G connectivity
  • AI-powered conversations
  • Music and quiz games
  • Smart home integrations
  • Remote monitoring
  • Access live camera feed
Features
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Reachy Mini is the official app for controlling your Reachy Mini Wireless robot directly from your smartphone. Plug it in, connect to Wi-Fi or 5G, sign in with your Hugging Face account, and your robot is ready to go. Reachy Mini brings robotics and AI into an accessible, playful, and fully plug-and-play experience designed for everyone: from curious beginners and families to makers, developers, educators, and AI enthusiasts. Discover a growing ecosystem of interactive applications: - AI conversations - Music and quiz games - Educational experiences for kids - Smart home integrations - Remote monitoring and telepresence The app ecosystem evolves every day thanks to the rise of AI agents and open-source creators building new experiences faster than ever. With the Reachy Mini app, you can use your robot anywhere and: - Talk naturally with AI-powered assistants - Control your robot remotely (access the live camera feed, control head movements and interactions) - Browse and launch community apps instantly No coding experience is required to get started. About Reachy Mini Reachy Mini is an open-source robot created by Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics. The robot comes as a kit with a step-by-step assembly guide designed to make robotics accessible to everyone.

About

Sill

Stream your Mac's desktop or individual windows to your iPhone or iPad. Control your computer remotely using touch, keyboard, or Apple Pencil with encrypted connections. Offers flexible streaming quality and connection options.

Highlights
  • Stream Mac windows or desktop to iPhone/iPad
  • Remote control with touch, keyboard, Apple Pencil
  • Encrypted connections with TLS 1.3
  • Adjustable streaming quality and frame rate
  • Virtual display option for continuous updates
  • Multiple connection modes (Wired, Wi-Fi, Direct, Remote)
Features
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Sill puts your Mac on your iPhone and iPad. Pick any window, or the whole desktop, and use it with touch, a trackpad, a keyboard or Apple Pencil. Your apps keep running on your Mac. Sill shows them and sends back what you do. Sill needs the free Sill for Mac on the Mac you want to use. Get it at getsill.app. It runs on a Mac with macOS 14 or later. Get started • Open Sill for Mac and allow Screen Recording and Accessibility. • Open Sill on your iPhone or iPad. Your Mac shows up. Tap it. The first time, scan the code your Mac shows. • Pick a window from the Apps list, or tap Desktop to see the whole screen. • The first time, a short tour shows you the controls. Made for touch • Tap to click. Touch and hold to right-click. Drag to scroll. • Apple Pencil works as a mouse, with hover on iPad models that support it. • Hold your device upright for a laptop layout: the picture on top, a trackpad and a row of keys below. On iPhone, turn on Larger Picture to give a window’s picture more of the screen. • On iPhone Duo, open it flat and your Mac fills the inner display. Half open, it’s a laptop: the picture above the fold, a trackpad and keys below. Closed, Sill runs on the cover display. • Type with the on-screen keyboard, or on a hardware keyboard as soon as you connect, with shortcuts and Esc. A trackpad or a mouse scrolls the window under the pointer. • Copy text on your Mac and paste it on your iPhone or iPad. To paste on your Mac what you copied on your device, tap Paste in Sill: it goes where your Mac’s cursor is. • Swipe and pinch with three fingers for Mission Control, App Exposé, Spaces, Apps and Show Desktop. • Use the menus of the app you’re in: tap Menus in the bar, or on iPad with iPadOS 26 or later, use the menu bar at the top of the screen. • Switch windows from live thumbnails in the bar. Touch and hold one to close, minimize or go full screen. Drag it to reorder. • When the mouse moves on your Mac, its pointer shows on your iPhone or iPad too. • Aa makes text larger or smaller. Smooth and sharp • Up to 120 frames per second on displays that support it. • Set quality, resolution and frame rate from your iPhone or iPad. • Hear sound from your Mac in step with the picture, a beta feature that is on unless you turn off Send Audio in Sill’s settings, on your Mac or your iPhone or iPad. Mute it on any device in Sill’s settings. Your Mac, your network • Connect over Wi-Fi, or over a USB cable. • Mac nearby but on another network? Turn on Direct Wireless Connection on the Mac and connect straight to it. • Pair each device with your Mac once by scanning a code. Over a USB cable it pairs by itself. By default your Mac lets in only the devices you paired, and every connection is encrypted. • Away from home, reach your Mac through your own VPN. Sill starts at a quality a slower connection can carry, tells you when the connection can’t keep up, and moves back to your home network by itself when you get home. Private • No account, no ads, no tracking. • Sill has no servers and collects no data. The picture and what you type go between your devices and your Mac, and to no one else. • Sill is free and open source (Apache 2.0): https://github.com/Saffsanity/sill Good to know • Sill shows one window, or the whole desktop, at a time. • Sill for Mac comes from getsill.app, not the Mac App Store.

Screenshots

Reachy Mini4 screens
Sill4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Sill at 4.9 against Reachy Mini's 3.0. Sill also leads on ratings volume (59 vs 2). Reachy Mini's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Sill holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sill has 59 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Reachy Mini ships an update fortnightly, Sill every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Reachy Mini versus Sill: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReachy MiniSill
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (2 ratings)4.9 (59 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings259 — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB4 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperPollen RoboticsNOAH WILLIAM SAFFER

Customer experience

Reachy Mini

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Sill

All ratings52 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews36 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Reachy Mini

No in-app purchases

None

Sill

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Reachy Mini free?
Reachy Mini is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sill free?
Sill is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Reachy Mini or Sill?
Sill is rated higher. Reachy Mini averages 3.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Sill averages 4.9 from 59 ratings.
Do Reachy Mini or Sill have ads?
Neither Reachy Mini nor Sill shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Reachy Mini or Sill?
Reachy Mini ships an update fortnightly, and Sill every 2 weeks. Most recently, Reachy Mini was updated on November 5, 2026 and Sill on November 10, 2026.

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