Comparison

DevStack Tools vs Heeler for herdr

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

Head to head
About

DevStack Tools

Features
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DevStack is the ultimate offline toolbox designed specifically for developers. Stop pasting your sensitive data, JSONs, and JWT tokens into random websites! DevStack brings all your essential daily utilities into one blazing-fast, privacy-first application that works entirely offline. Features include: • Formatters & Minifiers (JSON, XML, SQL, JavaScript) • Encoders & Decoders (Base64, URL, JWT) • Generators (UUID, Hash, QR Code, Lorem Ipsum) • Converters (Number Base, Date & Time) • Text Utilities (Regex Tester) • Design Tools (Color Picker) Boost your productivity and keep your data safe today with DevStack!

About

Heeler for herdr

This app provides a native iPhone and iPad console for managing coding agents. It allows users to monitor agents across multiple hosts, interact with live terminals, and manage conversations and prompts. Features include encrypted notifications and secure SSH connections.

Highlights
  • Unified agent console across hosts
  • Live terminal with touch scrolling
  • Chat interface for AI models
  • Composer with agent control keys
  • Encrypted notifications and Live Activity
  • Secure SSH connections with jump hosts
  • Voice input for AI services
Features
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Heeler is a native iPhone and iPad companion for herdr, an agent-first terminal runtime. Follow your coding agents in Herdr TUI, the Herdr desktop app or herdr-core, on your own machines over SSH. See every Agent on every Host in one console, sorted by who needs you first. Open an Agent to steer its live terminal, or read its conversation as Chat and reply from the Composer. FEATURES • One Agent Console across all your Hosts, updated live • Herdr desktop app and herdr-core on macOS, Linux and Windows, following the desktop app's spaces and tabs • Live terminal rendered by libghostty, with native scrollback and touch scrolling • Chat for Claude Code, Codex, Pi, Oh My Pi, Grok Build and OpenCode, with buttons for Blocked prompts • Composer with the full iOS keyboard, Agent control keys and Agent Skills • Voice Input with your own OpenAI, DeepInfra, SiliconFlow or compatible speech service • Changes: every uncommitted file in the Agent's checkout • Shell Terminals for every Workspace • Photos and files staged onto the Host, with their paths in your draft • New Agent with Worktrees, Accounts and Launch Presets • Usage: Claude Code and Codex Usage Limits and up to 30 days of Token Usage, with widgets • End-to-end encrypted notifications when an Agent is Blocked or Done, and a Live Activity that tracks your Agents • QR pairing with an on-device Ed25519 key • SSH Jump Hosts, several routes per Host, and Tailscale, ZeroTier or EasyTier built in • Separate light and dark terminal themes PRIVACY Heeler has no accounts, analytics or tracking. SSH keys stay in the iOS Keychain. Terminal output, prompts and conversations travel directly between your device and your own Host over SSH. Notification content is encrypted on your Host before it passes through the push relay. Voice Input sends recordings only to the speech service you choose, with your own API key. REQUIREMENTS A Mac or Linux machine running herdr 0.7.5 or later, a Windows machine running herdr 0.9.3 or later, or a machine running the Herdr desktop app or herdr-core, reachable over SSH. On a Mac or Linux machine running herdr, the included plugin shows a Pairing Code to scan and delivers Agent Notifications. On herdr-core, the optional Host Helper adds notifications, the Live Activity and Usage on macOS and Linux. Heeler is an independent project and is not affiliated with the herdr project.

Screenshots

DevStack Tools3 screens
Heeler for herdr4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Heeler for herdr at every 6 days against DevStack Tools's every 6 weeks. Heeler for herdr also leads on chart position (#45 vs unranked). DevStack Tools's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DevStack Tools ships an update every 6 weeks, Heeler for herdr every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
DevStack Tools versus Heeler for herdr: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDevStack ToolsHeeler for herdr
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (17 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—17 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
Best chart rank—#45 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB66 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMan Sao Ng野 张

In-app purchases

None

DevStack Tools

No in-app purchases

None

Heeler for herdr

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is DevStack Tools free?
DevStack Tools is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Heeler for herdr free?
Heeler for herdr is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do DevStack Tools or Heeler for herdr have ads?
Neither DevStack Tools nor Heeler for herdr shows ads.
Which is updated more often, DevStack Tools or Heeler for herdr?
DevStack Tools ships an update every 6 weeks, and Heeler for herdr every 6 days. Most recently, DevStack Tools was updated on November 5, 2026 and Heeler for herdr on November 8, 2026.

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