Comparison

Remote Pi vs Avengents

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

Avengents

Control coding agents on your computers directly from your phone. Interact with agents, send files, and manage multiple projects. Features include voice input, a custom keyboard, and the ability to host web artifacts from your machine.

Highlights
  • Remote agent terminal access
  • Voice input for commands
  • Custom keyboard for dictation
  • File transfer to/from agents
  • Host web artifacts from your machine
  • Project chat and notifications
Features
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Avengents puts the coding agents on your own computers in your pocket. Pair a machine once, then open any agent's terminal from your phone, talk to it, hand it files, and watch it work — Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more. Start new agents, message one agent from another, and keep several projects going at once. • Your machines, your agents: everything runs on computers you control. Avengents is the client and the relay, never the host. • Voice input: press the microphone and speak; your words land in the agent's terminal. • The Avengents keyboard: add it once and your agents are in every app. Dictate into Mail or Notes, or pin an agent, ask it something without leaving the app you are in, and edit its answer before it is typed. On iPad it is a full-size iPad keyboard. • Photos both ways: send one to an agent from the keyboard, and save the pictures it sends back to Photos or Files. • Artifacts: ask an agent to put a page, a report or a running app at a web address. It stays on your machine — nothing is uploaded, and every visit is carried live to that computer. Keep it to yourself, open it to your friends, or make the link public. • Notifications: choose which agents and which rooms may tell you when they finish or write to you. Nothing else interrupts. • Project Chat: rooms where people and agents work together, with files. • Friends: message a friend, or let them reach one of your agents. Free tier includes limited voice input each day. Avengents Plus (US$2.99/month, auto-renewing) provides 60 minutes of voice input per day. Privacy policy: https://app.avengents.ai/privacy · Terms: https://app.avengents.ai/terms

Screenshots

Remote Pi4 screens
Avengents4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Remote Pi at none against Avengents's 1. Remote Pi also leads on chart position (#179 vs unranked) and ratings volume (6 vs 1). Avengents's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 10 days) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, rating 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. Avengents sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month. Remote Pi asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Remote Pi against 5.0 for Avengents. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Remote Pi has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Remote Pi ships an update every 10 days, Avengents every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Remote Pi versus Avengents: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRemote PiAvengents
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (6 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
Best chart rank#179 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJacob MouraYuan Yen Tai

Customer experience

Remote Pi

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

Avengents

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Remote Pi

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Avengents

Subscriptions1
  • Plus$2.991 Month

Questions

Is Remote Pi free?
Remote Pi is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Avengents free?
Avengents is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Remote Pi or Avengents?
Remote Pi and Avengents are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 6 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Remote Pi or Avengents have ads?
Neither Remote Pi nor Avengents shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Remote Pi or Avengents?
Remote Pi ships an update every 10 days, and Avengents every 4 days. Most recently, Remote Pi was updated on October 31, 2026 and Avengents on October 26, 2026.

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