Comparison

Fleet Command vs dev

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

Head to head
About

Fleet Command

Features
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Fleet Command is mission control for your AI coding agents. If you run Claude Code or Codex โ€” on one machine or a dozen โ€” it turns every live session into a ship on a space map you can watch, command, and answer from your phone and Apple Watch. Each ship is one coding session. At a glance you see who's thinking, who's running a command, who's waiting on you, and who's gone quiet โ€” across all of your computers at once. THE MUSTER โ€” your home base. One ranked list of everything that needs you, across every machine. Approve a blocked command, answer a question, or jump to a session, and clear it to zero. FLEET ATLAS โ€” a living map of all your machines at once. Each computer gets its own territory, sized to fill your screen, with its sessions drifting inside it: green when it's humming, amber when a session is awaiting a command, red when something's blocked. Reorder your fleets with a drag, and tap one to dive in. FLEET INSIGHTS โ€” a dashboard for your whole fleet. See what your agents spend their time on, how fast they're burning tokens, when you're busiest, and which tools, sub-agents, and skills your sessions use โ€” across every machine, per machine, or all at once. ANSWER FROM ANYWHERE โ€” approve or deny a risky shell command, or type a reply straight into a live session, right from the notification on your lock screen or your Apple Watch โ€” without even opening the app. Dictate a reply from your wrist. Approve a tool once, or for the whole session. NOTIFICATIONS THAT RESPECT YOU โ€” mute a noisy fleet, choose which alerts actually buzz you, and let quiet digests roll up the rest, so you're paged for the one that matters and never flooded. NEVER MISS THE ONE THAT MATTERS โ€” distress timers show how long a session has been blocked and escalate as it waits. A fan-out of identical requests collapses into a single tap. Search across every machine to find any session fast. ON YOUR WRIST โ€” a watch-face complication and Smart Stack glance show who needs you without opening anything. Approve, deny, or reply right from the watch. A Lock Screen Live Activity and Dynamic Island surface "a ship needs you." KNOWS WHEN A MACHINE GOES DARK โ€” if a computer sleeps or drops offline, its sessions are marked offline instead of falsely flagged as stuck, so you're only paged for things that are really waiting. MULTI-MACHINE โ€” Mac, Linux, or Windows, wherever Claude Code or Codex runs. Watch them all from one place. PRIVATE BY DESIGN โ€” Fleet Command never sees your source code, your prompts, or your full file paths โ€” only lightweight session metadata and a project folder name. Insights are derived on our side from that same metadata, so nothing extra runs on your machine. No accounts, no email, no password: pair a computer with a one-time code. HOW IT WORKS โ€” install the open-source companion plugin on your computer, link it with a pairing code, and your sessions stream in live. Tap "Preview a demo fleet" to try the whole experience instantly, with no setup. Fleet Command is an independent developer tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Anthropic or OpenAI. "Claude" and "Claude Code" are trademarks of Anthropic, PBC; "Codex" is a trademark of OpenAI.

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dev

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Your agents keep working when you step away from the desk. dev-mux shows you what they're doing โ€” and lets you answer them from anywhere. dev-mux is a cockpit for the terminal sessions running on your own machines: AI coding agents, builds, test runners, deploys, service logs. It connects to a hub you run yourself, so your code and your machines stay yours. THE FLEET AT A GLANCE See every machine and every session in one view. Live status tells you what's running, what finished, and โ€” the one that matters โ€” what is sitting blocked waiting for you. ANSWER WITHOUT SITTING DOWN When an agent stops to ask "apply this patch?", dev-mux tells you. Approve or decline straight from the notification, or open the session and answer in full. The thing that used to cost you a round trip to the desk now costs a tap. VOICE, ON DEVICE Talk to a session instead of typing at it. Tap the Talk button, say what you want, watch the words appear as you speak, tap again, and dev-mux sends it. Recognition runs entirely on your iPhone using Apple's on-device speech engine โ€” your voice is never uploaded, not to dev-mux, not to your hub, not to anyone. The microphone can be opened between the tap that starts it and the tap that stops it. LIVE ACTIVITIES Pin a session to your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. Watch a long build or a working agent without unlocking your phone. FILES Browse, read, and edit files on your machines. Fix the typo you spotted in the log without opening a laptop. A REAL TERMINAL WHEN YOU NEED ONE For the times a cockpit isn't enough, dev-mux includes a full terminal for the machines you already have access to โ€” proper PTY, real keyboard, host-key verification that refuses a changed key. BUILT TO BE YOURS * No account. No sign-up. No email address. You point the app at your hub and that's the whole setup. * No analytics, no trackers, no advertising, no third-party SDKs collecting anything. * Your credentials live in the iOS Keychain, on this device only. * Everything talks to your hub and nothing else. dev-mux requires a hub to connect to your own machines. Setup instructions at dev-mux.com.

Screenshots

Fleet Command4 screens
dev4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Fleet Command at every 2 days against dev's every 2 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fleet Command ships an update every 2 days, dev every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 9, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
Fleet Command versus dev: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFleet Commanddev
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 days โ€” betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, Apple Watch โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.016.2 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size5 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAriel BitonJamie Ter Beest

In-app purchases

None

Fleet Command

No in-app purchases

None

dev

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Fleet Command free?
Fleet Command is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is dev free?
dev is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Fleet Command or dev have ads?
Neither Fleet Command nor dev shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Fleet Command or dev?
Fleet Command ships an update every 2 days, and dev every 2 months. Most recently, Fleet Command was updated on October 9, 2026 and dev on October 9, 2026.

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