Cursor vs Ciaooo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cursor
Build, review, and ship software from anywhere using AI agents. Implement changes, fix bugs, and manage projects remotely. Verify work with demos and provide visual feedback to agents.
- Launch coding agents from anywhere
- Track and manage engineering work
- Review screenshots and videos of changes
- Annotate images for visual feedback
- Inspect diffs and merge pull requests
- Communicate with agents via voice
- Understand codebases faster
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Introducing Cursor for iOS: the best way to build, review, and ship software from anywhere. Kick off and manage agents to implement changes, fix bugs, and keep projects moving forward while you're away from your desk. BUILD FROM ANYWHERE With Cursor in your pocket, you can start new work the moment inspiration strikes. Launch agents directly from your phone to implement features, investigate issues, or answer questions about your codebase. Track progress across long-running agents and review completed work no matter where you are. Cursor helps you think through complex problems with a deep understanding of your codebase. VERIFY WORK WITH DEMOS Agents can test changes in their own sandbox and iterate until they've validated their output. Cursor can produce artifacts like videos, screenshots, and logs, so you can quickly verify its work before moving to the next step. By giving agents their own virtual machines with full development environments, they are able to work more autonomously to create merge-ready PRs. POINT AND DRAW TO FIX Take a screenshot, circle an issue, and drop comments to give agents visual feedback directly on images. Cursor understands annotations and uses them as context to make precise updates. Visual inputs help shrink the distance between what you see and what the agent understands. This allows you to iterate faster when refining UI, fixing visual bugs, or communicating design changes. SHIP CODE FROM YOUR PHONE Review pull requests and inspect changes through a focused diff experience designed for mobile. From quick fixes to major features, Cursor makes it easy to move between files and commits. Understand what changed and merge high-quality code with confidence. TALK TO CURSOR Use voice mode to communicate what you want without typing. Brainstorm ideas, explain bugs, plan features, tackle a difficult technical challenge, or request changes out loud. Cursor turns conversations into actionable engineering work, allowing you to stay in flow and capture ideas as they come to you. BUILT FOR MODERN SOFTWARE TEAMS Cursor is designed to help individuals and teams build ambitious software. Always use the best model for the task at hand with access to any frontier model from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and more. Cursor's own agentic model, Composer, delivers frontier-level intelligence while optimizing for speed and token-efficiency. With Cursor for iOS, you can: • Launch coding agents from anywhere • Track and manage active engineering work • Review screenshots and videos of changes • Annotate images to provide visual feedback • Inspect diffs and merge pull requests • Talk to agents with voice conversations • Understand unfamiliar codebases faster Whether you’re maintaining production systems or building your next side project, Cursor helps you turn your ideas into working software from anywhere. ——— Terms of Service: https://cursor.com/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://cursor.com/privacy © 2026 Anysphere, Inc.
Ciaooo
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Your agents keep working. You keep living. Claude Code runs on your own machine. When it stops to ask, your phone gets the question. Answer with a tap, and it keeps going. WHILE YOU WERE OUT 2:47 PM. You leave. Claude Code is mid release in ~/dev/acme-api. 3:12 PM. It hits the one thing it cannot decide alone. 3:13 PM. You read the plan in the lunch line and tap Allow. 3:19 PM. Shipped. Your laptop never opened. WHAT YOU GET A card for the quick yes. The question arrives as a push and answers like a text. The real terminal for everything else. Your actual session, live from your machine, for when you want to look around first. A trackpad. Swipe instead of hunting arrow keys on a phone. Dictation. Say the next prompt at the speed of thought, not of one thumb. Every machine you own. macOS, Linux, WSL. Pair them all, one app. YOUR CODE NEVER MOVES End to end encrypted, so the relays that carry your traffic cannot read a byte of it. No account, because pairing is a QR code between your phone and your machine. No telemetry. Ciao phones home to your machine and nowhere else. SETUP IS ONE COMMAND curl -fsSL https://ciaooo.app/install.sh | sh It ends at a QR code. Scan it with the app. Then go. WATCHING IS FREE. ACTING IS PRO. Pairing, sessions, live output and every notification are free forever. Sending, steering and answering your agents is Ciao Pro, and the first 20 are on the house. Ciao Pro is $9.99 per month or $89.99 per year, and a new subscription starts with a free week. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when the free week ends. The subscription renews automatically unless it is turned off at least 24 hours before the period ends, and you can manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: https://ciaooo.app/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Ciaooo at none against Cursor's 3. Cursor's advantage is chart position (#2 vs unranked). On price, update cadence, 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. Cursor sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $25.99 per month. Ciaooo asks for nothing beyond the download.
Cursor ships an update every 6 days, Ciaooo every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cursor | Ciaooo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (868 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 60.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 868 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Best chart rank | #2 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 275 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Anysphere | Bojan Stefanovic |
In-app purchases
Cursor
- Pro$25.991 Month
- Pro+$77.991 Month
- Ultra$259.991 Month
Ciaooo
No in-app purchases









