Comparison

Greenlight vs Tailscode

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

Head to head
About

Greenlight

Features
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Greenlight is a native iPhone client for GitLab, built for one job and built well: keeping on top of your merge requests and CI/CD pipelines from your phone. MERGE REQUESTS • Mine, review-requested, assigned, or all open MRs across your repos • Approve / unapprove, merge, merge-when-pipeline-succeeds, mark draft/ready, close/reopen • Reviewers & assignees, per-reviewer re-request review, and an approvals summary • Colored unified diffs, labels, branches, and ahead/behind with one-tap rebase • Threaded comments with reactions, reply, and resolve - plus an activity feed PIPELINES • Pipelines across all your repos: yours or everyone's, latest-per-branch • Stages and jobs at a glance; retry, cancel, run, and play manual jobs • A live-tailing job log with collapsible sections PUSH NOTIFICATIONS (OPTIONAL) • Know the instant a pipeline fails, recovers, or someone requests your review • Fine-grained controls and quiet hours TO-DOS • Your GitLab to-do list, tappable straight through to the item that needs you PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Your access token lives in the iOS Keychain - no analytics, no trackers, no ads • Optional Face ID lock • Light and dark mode, designed iOS-first Greenlight is an independent, unofficial client and is not affiliated with GitLab Inc. Works with gitlab.com. Requires a GitLab account and a personal access token (or GitLab sign-in) with API access. Greenlight is free, contains no in-app purchases, and unlocks no paid features. A free GitLab.com account works.

About

Tailscode

Interact with AI agents like Claude Code and Oh My Pi from your phone. Monitor and approve commands, view code changes, and manage conversations live on your lock screen. All data is transmitted point-to-point over your private network.

Highlights
  • Live Lock Screen Activities for conversations
  • Approve commands and answer agent questions
  • View code diffs and output inline
  • Manage multiple servers and conversations
  • Track conversation costs and model usage
  • End-to-end encrypted communication
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Send a prompt to Claude Code, opencode or Oh My Pi from your phone, pocket it, and watch the turn finish on your Lock Screen. Approve the risky command, answer the agent's question, read every diff — from anywhere on your own Tailscale network. WHAT YOU NEED A Mac or Linux machine on your tailnet (Tailscale is free for personal use) running one of your agents: opencode, Claude Code through the open-source claude-bridge, or Oh My Pi through the open-source omp-bridge. Set-up is three verified steps, and a built-in demo lets you try every screen before you wire anything. THE TURN, LIVE ON YOUR LOCK SCREEN • A Live Activity per conversation: what it is doing, for how long, and how many tools it has run. • An approval request alerts you; a finished turn lingers with its outcome. Tap to land in the exact chat. • Updates arrive by push while the app is suspended. A NATIVE TRANSCRIPT, NOT A TERMINAL • Streaming text written at the model's own speed, with thinking and tool runs folded into readable groups. • Diffs, commands and their real output inline; syntax-highlighted code with byte-exact copy. • Allow once, always, or deny — without leaving the chat. Agent questions become tappable cards. • Queue the next message while a turn runs, edit it before it goes, or stop the turn on the server. • Every picture the agent hands you, in a gallery you can zoom, save or share. EVERY MACHINE ON ONE BOARD • All your servers' conversations in one list, live status first, grouped by project. • Read the repository before you trust the change: branch, staged, changed, untracked, and the diff of any file. • Subagents dock inside the turn that spawned them; a compaction is drawn as a seam with what it kept. • Slash commands from the server's own catalog, per-message model and reasoning effort, forking. KNOW WHAT IT COSTS • Every conversation priced, every month totalled across machines — by model, project and tool. • Plan limits and quotas for Claude, Grok, Ollama Cloud, DeepSeek and more, on Home and in a widget. YOURS, END TO END • Point-to-point over your tailnet. No relay servers, no account, no analytics, nobody reading your code. • Programmatic UIKit, Swift 6, Liquid Glass on iOS 26. Dark mode, Dynamic Type, haptics. • Open source under GPL-3.0 — the app, the engine, and both bridges. FREE, WITH AN HONEST PRO The free app is the complete core: one server, full chat, approvals, attachments, models, forking, and Live Activities. Tailscode Pro is a one-time purchase, no subscription: multiple saved servers, concurrent Live Activities, and a supporter badge. Tailscode is independent open-source software: not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic, Tailscale Inc., the opencode project or Oh My Pi. Privacy policy: https://midgarcorp.cc/tailscode/privacy Source code: https://github.com/guitaripod/Tailscode

Screenshots

Greenlight4 screens
Tailscode4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Greenlight at none against Tailscode's 4. Tailscode's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 weeks) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads 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. Tailscode sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Greenlight asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Greenlight ships an update every 2 weeks, Tailscode every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Greenlight versus Tailscode: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGreenlightTailscode
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB37 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPhiSeC LtdMidgar Oy

In-app purchases

None

Greenlight

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Tailscode

One-time4
  • Small Tip$2.99
  • Generous Tip$9.99
  • Tailscode Pro$14.99
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  • Lavish Tip$19.99

Questions

Is Greenlight free?
Greenlight is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tailscode free?
Tailscode is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Greenlight or Tailscode have ads?
Neither Greenlight nor Tailscode shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Greenlight or Tailscode?
Greenlight ships an update every 2 weeks, and Tailscode every 2 days. Most recently, Greenlight was updated on September 29, 2026 and Tailscode on October 3, 2026.

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