Comparison

Anvil vs Linea Agents

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

Head to head
About

Anvil

A native toolkit for developers on macOS, iPhone, and iPad that streamlines everyday formatting, encoding, conversion, and inspection tasks. It supports a wide range of data types and formats, offering a focused and fast interface for common development workflows.

Highlights
  • JSON formatting and validation
  • Base64, URL, and HTML entity encoding/decoding
  • Timestamp and number base conversion
  • JWT decoding and payload inspection
  • UUID, ULID, and QR code generation
  • String analysis and data cleaning
Features
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Anvil is a native developer toolkit for macOS, iPhone, and iPad, built to make everyday formatting, encoding, conversion, and inspection tasks faster. Work with JSON, Base64, URLs, timestamps, JWTs, UUIDs, hashes, regular expressions, strings, SQL, CSV, YAML, QR codes, and more from one focused app. Instead of jumping between web utilities, Anvil keeps common developer workflows close at hand in a fast, native interface. Use Anvil to: Format, validate, repair, and inspect JSON. Encode and decode Base64, URLs, HTML entities, and escaped strings. Convert timestamps, number bases, CSV, YAML, and other structured data. Decode JWTs and inspect token payloads. Generate UUIDs, ULIDs, QR codes, hashes, sample text, and formatted code. Analyze strings, compare text, and clean up data while building or debugging. Anvil is designed for developers who want practical tools without clutter. Whether you are debugging an API response, preparing test data, checking a token, formatting a query, or converting values during development, Anvil gives you a polished native workspace for the small tasks that happen all day. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms and Conditions: https://anvilmac.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://anvilmac.com/privacy

About

Linea Agents

Features
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Linea puts your Mac's coding agents in your pocket. Pair with your Mac running Linea, then watch and steer every terminal and AI agent from your phone — live. See what each agent is doing, read its plan and diffs, approve or deny its actions, and reply when it needs you. Start new agents or shells, resume past sessions, and jump between projects — all over a private, direct connection to your own Mac. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Live agent conversations — follow tool calls, plans, and diffs as they happen • Warp-style terminal blocks — run commands and read the output • Approve, deny, or answer your agents from anywhere • Start new agents (Claude Code, Codex, and more), shells, or git worktrees • Search your history and resume past sessions • Instant Home from a cached snapshot, even before the link reconnects PRIVATE BY DESIGN Linea connects peer-to-peer straight to your Mac — your code and conversations never touch our servers. No account required. Requires the Linea app on your Mac. New here? Tap "Explore a demo" to try the whole app on sample data — no Mac needed.

Screenshots

Anvil4 screens
Linea Agents4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Linea Agents at none against Anvil's 3. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Anvil sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Linea Agents asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Anvil versus Linea Agents: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAnvilLinea Agents
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size96 MB18 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperAlex Javier Rivas MartinezCarlos Eduardo Pazmino Peralta

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Anvil

Subscriptions2
  • Anvil Pro Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Anvil Pro Yearly$37.991 Year
One-time1
  • Anvil Pro Lifetime$79.99
None

Linea Agents

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Anvil free?
Anvil is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Linea Agents free?
Linea Agents is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Anvil or Linea Agents have ads?
Neither Anvil nor Linea Agents shows ads.

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