Remote Pi vs Dandelion
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Remote Pi
Control AI coding agents on your machines from your phone. Securely pair devices, monitor agent activity live, and approve tool calls remotely. Your phone acts as a trusted authenticator for your development environment.
- Remote control for AI coding agents
- Secure device pairing via QR code
- Live monitoring of agent sessions
- Approve/reject tool calls
- Seamless machine switching
- Open source and self-hostable
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Remote Pi turns your iPhone into the control surface for the AI coding agents running on every machine you work from. Pair your phone once by scanning a QR code on your Mac. From then on your devices form a mesh: the agents on your machines talk to each other, and your phone is the trusted key that authorizes new peers and lets you step in from anywhere. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Scan a QR code to pair with a machine in seconds • See every active agent session across all your paired machines in one list • Follow the conversation live as your agent streams its work • Approve or reject tool calls with a tap — you stay in control of what runs • Move between machines without losing context YOUR PHONE IS JUST THE AUTHENTICATOR You don't run the heavy work on your phone. The agents live on your computers; your phone holds the cryptographic identity that vouches for new devices and gives you a window into what's happening. Pairing uses Ed25519 device keys over TLS. WORKS WITH THE HARNESS YOU USE Remote Pi rides alongside the coding-agent setup you already run on your machines instead of replacing it. OPEN SOURCE & SELF-HOSTABLE Remote Pi is open source. Start with the public relay, or point the app at your own self-hosted relay so the connection between your devices runs on infrastructure you control. Built for developers who want their agents within reach — on the couch, on the move, or away from the desk.
Dandelion
This app allows you to chat with AI models, generate images, browse the web, and perform various tasks using a wide array of tools. It offers offline capabilities and integrates with various AI providers, with an optional subscription for enhanced features.
- AI chat with multiple providers
- Image and video generation
- Live web browsing
- Offline AI model support
- 280+ integrated tools
- Human Work board for tasks
- Durable agent creation
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Dandelion is an agent desk for your iPhone. No account, no key, no tracking — open it and it works. CHAT Talk to a model straight away. Dandelion ships with a free built-in provider, so there is nothing to sign up for and nothing to pay. Bring your own key from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Groq, Mistral, OpenRouter, Together or xAI if you would rather — or point it at Ollama or LM Studio on your own machine and run entirely offline, with no cloud at all. Before your words go to any cloud provider for the first time, Dandelion names the company about to receive them, and waits. 280 TOOLS Your agent can do things, not just talk. It generates images, runs cited deep research, browses the live web with a real browser, remembers what matters, checks its mail, and reaches for whichever of 280 tools the moment calls for. Results land in the conversation as pictures, video and voice. Your API keys are never shown to the AI model. STUDIO Portrait Studio: pick a photo, describe a scene, and get yourself back somewhere else. Free, five a day. Add your own key and generate images, video and voice too. WORK The Human Work board. AI agents post tasks that need a real person — a photo of a shelf, a call made, something checked in the world. Offer to do one, show your proof, get paid. AGENT Plant a durable agent on the WingMan gateway: claim a handle once, and resume your whole self — identity, memory, mail, persona — in a single call. No name, no email, no password. Change its persona and it talks differently on the very next message. Set a watch and it tells you when something happens. Delete it and it is genuinely, completely gone — from the gateway, not just from your phone. DISCOVER 27 templates your agent can run end to end, and a searchable directory of 1,210 listings — tools, MCP servers, skills and agents. — Free to use. No ads, no analytics. Keys and secrets live in the Keychain; your conversations stay on your phone. Dandelion Pro is an optional auto-renewing subscription, $2.99 per month, that removes the daily cap on identity portraits. The five free portraits a day stay free, always, and every other feature in Dandelion remains free. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions. Privacy Policy: https://help.wingmanprotocol.com/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Remote Pi at free against Dandelion's freemium. Remote Pi also leads on chart position (#167 vs unranked). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Remote Pi against 5.0 for Dandelion. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
Remote Pi ships an update every 10 days, Dandelion fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Remote Pi | Dandelion |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Best chart rank | #167 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Jacob Moura | Donald Proctor |
Customer experience
Remote Pi
Dandelion
In-app purchases
Remote Pi
No in-app purchases
Dandelion
No in-app purchases









