Xtend vs Fjord Mobile
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Xtend
Access your Mac's development environment from your iPhone or iPad. Manage projects, interact with AI coding agents, and control builds and terminals remotely and securely.
- Remote development workspace
- AI coding agent interaction
- Project session management
- Full xterm emulation
- Remote build and install
- Simulator mirroring
- Push notifications (Premium)
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Xtend puts your development workspace in your pocket. A free companion app runs on your Mac. Your iPhone or iPad connects to it directly — encrypted, peer to peer — over any network. Your projects, your tools, your machine. You just aren't sitting at it. YOUR PROJECTS, ORGANIZED Every project on your machine becomes a workspace, with its own sessions, its own branch and its own history. Pick up a conversation from this morning, start a new one, jump between them. Everything survives closing the app. CHAT WITH YOUR CODING AGENT Talk to the agent already installed on your machine — Claude Code or Codex — about your real projects. Streaming replies, tool calls, syntax-highlighted diffs. Slash commands and @-file mentions work exactly as they do in your terminal, because it is your terminal. APPROVE WHAT IT RUNS, FROM YOUR POCKET When the agent wants to run a command or edit a file, the request appears on your phone. Approve, always allow, or deny. Xtend never decides for you — it carries the question and brings back your answer. A REAL TERMINAL Not a toy. Full xterm emulation with ANSI colour, pinch-to-zoom, text selection, eleven themes, and a font panel that does not dismiss the keyboard. Attach files from your photo library, camera or Files app. BUILD AND RUN Start an Xcode build, follow the log as it streams, then install straight to your iPhone — wherever you are, with no cable and no need to be on the same network. Runtime logs from the running app, searchable and filtered by level, like the Xcode console. And when you need to see it move, mirror your iOS Simulator live and touch it — taps go straight through. NO SAME-NETWORK REQUIREMENT Your phone and your desk find each other wherever they are. Cellular in one place, Wi-Fi in another — the connection is direct and end-to-end encrypted either way. PUSH WHEN IT MATTERS (Premium) The agent needs a decision, a long build finishes — your phone tells you, and you can answer without opening the app. Free accounts see the same alerts inside the app. WHAT YOU NEED • A Mac running the free Xtend Host companion (download at getxtend.com) • Sign in with Apple, on both • One Mac per Apple ID FREE AND PREMIUM Chat, terminal, projects and builds are unlimited and always free — no trial, no counter, no catch. Simulator mirroring and installs to your iPhone come with a generous daily allowance. An in-app purchase lifts that allowance and adds push notifications, for people who need more. Privacy Policy: https://getxtend.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://getxtend.com/terms
Fjord Mobile
Manage your Forgejo and Gitea projects on the go. Review pull requests, triage issues, monitor CI/CD pipelines, and merge changes directly from your iPhone or iPad. Connect to self-hosted instances or use an optional Fjord account for enhanced features.
- Review pull requests and issues
- Monitor and run CI/CD pipelines
- Browse repositories and code
- Add Home Screen widgets
- Offline reading of pull requests
- Optional Fjord account for push notifications
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Fjord Mobile is a Forgejo and Gitea client for iPhone and iPad. Review pull requests, triage issues, watch your CI, and merge, from anywhere. Connect free with a personal access token; a Fjord account is optional. WHAT YOU CAN DO - Review pull requests: conversation, timeline, diffs, changed files, CI status, approve or request changes, and merge. - Open pull requests and create and edit issues. Comment, react, label, assign, and manage reviewers. - Triage your notification inbox, with optional push for your own activity. - Run CI, not just watch it: browse Actions runs across your repositories, read a failed job's log, cancel a run or start one with your own inputs, and download artifacts. - Browse repositories, code, commits, branches, releases, and milestones. Edit a file and commit it to a branch for a quick fix. - Add Home Screen widgets: build status, open PR count, review requests, your contribution graph, and runner queue. SIGN IN - Connect directly to your own self-hosted Forgejo instance with a personal access token, no account required. Tokens are stored only in the device Keychain. - Or, optionally, sign in with a Fjord account to add push notifications and switch between your instances and connected forges without signing out. FREE AND MOBILE PRO - Free: connect any Forgejo server, add several servers and accounts, browse, and review, comment on and merge pull requests. Actions and their logs, push notifications, the contribution widget, reading pull requests offline and a few offline reviews are free as well. - Mobile Pro is a one-time purchase. It adds the Review Queue, which walks you through the pull requests waiting on your review one after another, by voice if you like on iOS 26; Needs You, the pull requests waiting on you, on Home, in a widget and when you ask Siri; a review assistant on devices with Apple Intelligence, which sums up what changed since your review and drafts comments without anything leaving the device; and Live Activities for runs. Also included: advanced notification actions, multi-line and block comments, offline review beyond the free allowance, and the iPad review workstation, where you comment and finish reviews with keyboard commands from its Review menu. - Pencil review (Mobile Pro): On iPad with Apple Pencil, write over a line to comment on it, drag to select lines, and keep private ink notes that never leave the device. - Restore Purchases is in Settings. Native on iPhone and iPad. No ads, and no cross-app tracking: nothing is shared with data brokers or used to follow you across apps and sites. Crash diagnostics are on by default and can be turned off in Settings. Fjord also sends product analytics: app usage events such as the app opening, a saved sign-in resuming, review activity, Forge Health, Mobile Pro paywall and purchase events, and once-a-day feature use. Events carry your account identifier if you are signed in with a Fjord Account and Fjord does not ask first, and otherwise a random identifier created on the device, which changes every month where Fjord asks first. They never include repository names, server addresses, usernames, pull request titles, file contents or text you write. If your device country or App Store country is in the EU, the EEA, the UK or Switzerland, or cannot be determined, Fjord asks before sending any analytics; elsewhere analytics is on until you turn it off in Settings, which also deletes the device identifier and anything not yet sent. Fjord is a third-party client for self-hosted Git forges. Compatible with Forgejo servers and other compatible installations, including Gitea. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Forgejo, Codeberg, Gitea, or any server operator.
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Verdict
Xtend and Fjord Mobile are too close to call on the numbers: across 7 compared parameters — price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Xtend sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per month and Fjord Mobile sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Xtend | Fjord Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.3 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 8 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.2 | 17.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 39 MB | 95 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Menahem mendel Aouizerat | Raster & State |
Customer experience
Xtend
Fjord Mobile
In-app purchases
Xtend
- Xtend Premium7 Days trial$4.991 Month
Fjord Mobile
- Mobile Pro$49.99









