Esque Agent vs Knife Terminal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
Esque Agent
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Esque is a pocket-sized project manager for the agentic coder running on your laptop. Plan, prompt, and review your build from anywhere ā your phone does the thinking, your desktop agent does the typing. WHAT ESQUE DOES ⢠Plans your project as a 5-step roadmap the moment you describe it. ⢠Writes the next prompt for your coding agent for you. You tap Send. ⢠Pairs to a local Claude Code, Codex, or Aider session on your laptop via a QR code from the open-source esque-bridge CLI. Your prompts run on YOUR subscription, never per-token API rates. ⢠Sync Repository ā your agent describes what's in your repo, Esque tunes every future prompt to fit. ⢠Continuity Mode ā once synced, prompts become surgical edits with a "commit before changes" guardrail. ⢠Multimodal ā attach a screenshot of a bug or a Figma design; Esque tells the agent exactly what to change and where. ⢠Multi-agent ā run Claude Code, Codex, and Aider projects side-by-side, each in its own session. WHO IT'S FOR Developers who already have a Claude Code, Codex, or Aider setup, and want to drive their coding agent from the train, the couch, a meeting, or anywhere except in front of their laptop. PRO PLAN ā $4.99/MONTH ⢠Unlimited project sessions, 500 AI-planned prompts/month, 40 screenshot reviews/month. ⢠Continuity Mode, Auto-Pilot, no ads, priority quota. ⢠Free plan: 30 prompts/month and 3 screenshot reviews, with banner + occasional interstitial ads. Cancel any time in Settings ā Apple ID ā Subscriptions. REQUIRES Apple Sign In on first launch. A laptop running esque-bridge (free, npm) to actually drive an agent ā install with one terminal command. PRIVACY Prompts go to Google Gemini (planning) and to the laptop bridge URL you paired with (execution). The bridge runs on YOUR machine; we never see what your local agent does. Full policy at the link below. TERMS Esque Pro is an auto-renewing monthly subscription at the price shown in the app. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation, and it renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in iOS Settings ā Apple ID ā Subscriptions. Terms of Use (EULA): https://esque-backend-production.up.railway.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://esque-backend-production.up.railway.app/privacy
Knife Terminal
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Knife Terminal mirrors the terminal sessions on your Mac to your iPhone. It is the phone-side companion to the free, open-source Knife Terminal app for macOS. Run Claude Code (or any command-line tool) in Knife Terminal on your Mac, and every tab follows you out the door: ⢠Live mirror ā each session's screen rendered natively, with real colors, text selection and copy ⢠Chat view ā Claude Code sessions read like a messages thread: your prompts, Claude's replies, tool activity ⢠Reply from anywhere ā type into any session from your phone; a push notification tells you when a session is waiting on you ⢠Usage at a glance ā 5-hour, weekly and per-model usage bars, one tap away ⢠Open projects remotely ā start a new session in any recent project without touching the Mac ⢠Private by design ā everything syncs through your own private iCloud database. No accounts, no analytics, no servers of ours; we never see your data. Requires the free, open-source Knife Terminal app for macOS: github.com/cheewee2000/knife-terminal
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Knife Terminal at none against Esque Agent's 1. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Esque Agent sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per month. Knife Terminal asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Esque Agent | Knife Terminal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No ā better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad ā better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 ā better | 17.0 |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 71 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ESQUE TECHNOLOGIES LLC | CW&T |
In-app purchases
Esque Agent
- Esque Pro$4.991 Month
Knife Terminal
No in-app purchases
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