Comparison

Conduit vs Local Inspect

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

Head to head
About

Conduit

Features
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Keep coding when you leave your desk. Start and supervise Claude and Codex sessions on your own development machine from your iPhone or iPad. YOUR CODING AGENTS, ANYWHERE Send instructions, follow progress, review diffs, and respond to approval requests from your phone. Keep a live terminal and browser preview close by to check the work as it happens. CONNECT YOUR OWN MACHINE Conduit requires the Conduit broker running on your development machine, with your coding tools configured there. Pair your iPhone or iPad to get started. You can explore the app without a server using the built-in demo. SELF-HOSTED BY DESIGN Your session content flows between your device and your broker. Conduit does not operate a cloud service that stores your terminal output, chat, or browser content. CONDUIT PLUS (OPTIONAL) Chat, terminal, session reliability, and Flows are free. The free tier includes one paired machine, two concurrent sessions, two automations, and two agent CLIs. Conduit Plus lifts these limits and adds extra theme palettes, chat font pairings, and alternate app icons. Choose an auto-renewable monthly subscription or a one-time lifetime unlock. See in-app pricing for your region. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://conduit.kaopeh.com/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://conduit.kaopeh.com/privacy.html

About

Local Inspect

Features
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Local Inspect is a proper web inspector for iPhone and iPad. Open any live URL or a local project folder and dig into the page the way you would on a desktop, no Mac required. INSPECT THE PAGE • Element tree with the matched CSS, computed styles and a live box-model overlay • Tap any element to select it; edit CSS values, attributes and text and see changes live • Accessibility view: role, name, ARIA and WCAG colour contrast • View the source, served and rendered, with syntax highlighting and full text selection CONSOLE, NETWORK AND MORE • Console with log levels, filtering, search and a REPL to run JavaScript • Network panel with headers, payloads, response bodies, sizes and timing • Resources, Storage (local/session/cookies) and Performance (Core Web Vitals) • Built-in accessibility and best-practice audits • Emulate iPhone, iPad and desktop viewports AI ASSISTANT (bring your own key) • Ask about a selected element, the whole page or your project • Works with Claude, OpenAI or Google Gemini using your own API key • Get explanations and one-tap fixes you can apply to the page • Nothing is sent anywhere unless you turn the assistant on LOCAL-FIRST Pages you open stay on your device. The assistant only sends what you ask it to, straight to the provider you choose with your own key. LOCAL INSPECT PRO (one-time unlock) • Host a local project folder over a real http origin, so modules, routing and same-origin fetch all work • Accurate server-side Network panel and network throttling • Project-wide AI Q&A across your files • One-tap fixes for audit findings • Export the Network log as HAR and the Audit and Performance panels as reports • Saved console snippets, including run-on-load The full element inspector, console, source view and element/page AI chat are free. Pro is a single non-consumable purchase, no subscription.

Screenshots

Conduit4 screens
Local Inspect4 screens

Verdict

The call

Conduit and Local Inspect are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Conduit versus Local Inspect: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterConduitLocal Inspect
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.0 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB6 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperNikhil SharmaJonathan Lewington

In-app purchases

None

Conduit

No in-app purchases

None

Local Inspect

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Conduit free?
Conduit is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Local Inspect free?
Local Inspect is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Conduit or Local Inspect have ads?
Neither Conduit nor Local Inspect shows ads.

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