Comparison

Continuum vs Mobaide

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

Head to head
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Continuum

Features
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Continuum turns your iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch into a remote control for the command-line coding agents running on your own Mac. CODE - drive your agents from anywhere Start, monitor, and steer coding sessions running on your paired Mac. Review diffs and pull requests, approve plans, watch live terminals, and reply by voice. Step away from your desk without losing the thread. ANALYTICS - never get surprised by a limit Live rate-limit gauges show how much of your 5-hour and weekly allowances you have used. Historical token and cost analytics break your spend down by project and by model, with Apple Watch complications that put it on your wrist. WHY CONTINUUM - Pairs with your Mac. The Continuum Mac app does the heavy lifting and streams securely to your iPhone and Watch over your own network. - Local-first. Your prompts, code, and logs stay on your devices. - Built for developers who live in the terminal. HOW IT WORKS Continuum is a client. It does not host or resell any AI model. It reads the session and usage files that the developer tools already installed on your Mac write to disk, and it relays your input to those tools. You sign in to each tool with your own account or API key, obtained and paid for directly from that provider. Continuum shows you what you are already running. ACCOUNTS Continuum is free to download and free to use with your own provider accounts. An optional Continuum account keeps your workspace in sync across your devices. CONTINUUM PLUS SUBSCRIPTION Continuum Plus is an optional auto-renewable subscription that includes $25 of hosted AI usage every week, on every device. Every feature described above works without it. - Continuum Plus - $19.99 per month, 1 month duration, auto-renewing. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically for the same period and price unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your Apple Account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage your subscription and turn off auto-renew in your Apple Account settings after purchase. Privacy Policy: https://continuumcode.ai/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Continuum is an independent product and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI, or Anysphere. Claude and Claude Code are trademarks of Anthropic, PBC. ChatGPT and Codex are trademarks of OpenAI. Gemini is a trademark of Google LLC. Grok is a trademark of X.AI Corp. Cursor is a trademark of Anysphere Inc. These names are used only to state which tools Continuum is compatible with.

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Mobaide

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Mobaide is a mobile IDE for AI coding agents. Start any terminal AI agent on your own Windows, macOS or Linux computer and drive it from your phone โ€” free, with no public IP, VPN or port forwarding. Claude Code, Codex CLI and Antigravity CLI are built in. Any other terminal tool โ€” OpenCode, Cursor CLI, GitHub Copilot CLI, Pi, Aider, or an agent multiplexer like Herdr โ€” runs as a custom agent type that you define once. HOW IT WORKS Install the free Mobaide agent on your computer with one command. It prints a QR code: scan it in the app and you are paired. Your computer dials out to the Mobaide relay, so nothing on it has to be reachable from the internet. It works behind any router, NAT or firewall, on Wi-Fi or mobile data. FEATURES โ€ข A real terminal, not a log tail โ€” full two-way terminal I/O, so arrow keys, Ctrl-C, plan mode and approval prompts work as they do at your desk. โ€ข Voice prompts โ€” tap the mic and speak instead of typing. Your own computer turns the speech into text in 25 languages. Opt-in, and the audio is never stored. โ€ข Any agent, your way โ€” define agent types from any command with any flags. They sit next to the built-in agents: up to 20 per account, synced across your devices. โ€ข Launch options โ€” choose the model, reasoning effort, permissions, plan mode and an initial prompt for each Claude Code, Codex or Antigravity session. โ€ข Git in your pocket โ€” read diffs, stage, discard and commit. Fetch, pull and push with live progress, rebase, resolve merge conflicts, and create or switch branches. โ€ข Parallel sessions โ€” run up to 32 sessions at once on one computer. Optionally start a session in its own Git worktree, so parallel runs never collide. โ€ข Alerts โ€” get a notification when Claude Code needs your approval or finishes its turn. โ€ข Reliable reconnect โ€” every session keeps a rolling buffer of recent output, so a dropped connection replays it instead of losing it. โ€ข Raw shells โ€” open your login shell or cmd.exe in any project folder. โ€ข Prompt templates and shortcuts โ€” save prompts and control-key chords once, then use them in any session on every device. โ€ข Auto Scan โ€” picks up issues from Linear, creates a Git worktree and starts Claude Code on each one. โ€ข Always running โ€” the agent installs as a system service and restarts itself if it stops. โ€ข Also in your browser โ€” sign in at app.mobaide.com to reach the same agents and sessions from any computer. โ€ข Your devices โ€” see every paired device and revoke access at any time. PRIVACY AND SECURITY Through the relay, every connection is TLS-encrypted (WSS). Session traffic passes through the relay and is never stored. Mobaide does not resell or proxy any AI model: it launches the CLIs that you already installed and signed in to. FREE No subscription and no paywalled features. You bring your own agent access and your own computer. REQUIREMENTS โ€ข A Windows, macOS or Linux computer for the free Mobaide agent. Privacy policy: https://mobaide.com/privacy.html Mobaide is an independent app and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, GitHub, Anysphere, Linear or the makers of any other tool named here. "Claude" and "Claude Code" are trademarks of Anthropic. "Codex" is a trademark of OpenAI. "Antigravity" is a trademark of Google. "GitHub Copilot" is a trademark of GitHub, Inc. "Cursor" is a trademark of Anysphere, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Screenshots

Continuum4 screens
Mobaide4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Mobaide at none against Continuum's 1. Mobaide also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). Continuum's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Continuum sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $19.99 per month. Mobaide asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Continuum ships an update every 3 days, Mobaide every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 3 level
Continuum versus Mobaide: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterContinuumMobaide
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysEvery 2 days โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.017.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size167 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMontauk Analytics Inc.Pavel Timonin

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Continuum

Subscriptions1
  • Continuum Plus7 Days trial$19.991 Month
None

Mobaide

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Continuum free?
Continuum is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Mobaide free?
Mobaide is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Continuum or Mobaide have ads?
Neither Continuum nor Mobaide shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Continuum or Mobaide?
Continuum ships an update every 3 days, and Mobaide every 2 days. Most recently, Continuum was updated on October 28, 2026 and Mobaide on November 6, 2026.

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