Comparison

Continuum vs Knife Terminal

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

Head to head
About

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.

About

Knife Terminal

Features
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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: โ€ข Live mirror โ€” each session's screen rendered natively, with real colors, text selection and copy โ€ข Chat view โ€” Claude Code sessions read like a messages thread: your prompts, Claude's replies, tool activity โ€ข Reply from anywhere โ€” type into any session from your phone; a push notification tells you when a session is waiting on you โ€ข Usage at a glance โ€” 5-hour, weekly and per-model usage bars, one tap away โ€ข Open projects remotely โ€” start a new session in any recent project without touching the Mac โ€ข Private by design โ€” 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

Screenshots

Continuum4 screens
Knife Terminal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Knife Terminal at none against Continuum's 1. Knife Terminal also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads and device support 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. Knife Terminal asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
Continuum versus Knife Terminal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterContinuumKnife Terminal
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch โ€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.017.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size167 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMontauk Analytics Inc.CW&T

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Continuum

Subscriptions1
  • Continuum Plus7 Days trial$19.991 Month
None

Knife Terminal

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Continuum free?
Continuum is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Knife Terminal free?
Knife Terminal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Continuum or Knife Terminal have ads?
Neither Continuum nor Knife Terminal shows ads.

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