Comparison

Lochan vs BB Run

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

Head to head
About

Lochan

Features
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Your coding agents keep working when you step away. Lochan is how you keep up with them, calmly. When Claude Code, Codex or any other agent on your computer stops to ask a question, open its real terminal on your phone, read what it did, and answer. Then get back to your walk. A CALM VIEW OF A BUSY HERD Every agent on the machine at a glance, with a line on where each one left off. The ones waiting on you always come first. - Tiles: the whole herd as a grid that moves as your agents do - Board: Blocked, Working, Done and Idle as columns you swipe through - Projects: agents grouped by the project they are working in ASK THE SHEPHERD One question, the whole herd. The Shepherd is an agent on your computer that reads every other pane. Ask it what needs you, what changed or whether anything is stuck, and it answers from what is on the screens, with a link to each pane it mentions. It runs Claude Code by default, or Codex, Pi, OpenCode or Grok. ANY AGENT CAN JOIN THE HERD Lochan does not plug into your agent. It opens the terminal the agent is already running in, so it works with Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Grok, OpenCode, Aider and anything else with a prompt. A new agent works the day it ships. A REAL TERMINAL, IN YOUR POCKET Tap any agent for the actual session: full output, scrollback and a keyboard. MAKE THE KEYS YOUR OWN Two rows of keys sit above the terminal. Drag any key to either row, switch off the ones you never use, and add your own: - Text keys for the commands you repeat, like /compact, /usage or /model sonnet - Chord keys for Ctrl, Option and Shift combos, like your tmux prefix or Ctrl-R SHARE A SCREENSHOT WITH YOUR AGENT Pick a photo, take one of the screen in front of you, or send a file. It lands on your computer and its path goes into the prompt, ready for you to finish and send. SAY IT. CHECK IT. SEND IT. Dictate a long instruction, read the transcript, and send it only when it reads right. Or write it in a real text box, with a draft that waits if you get pulled away. RUN THE HERD FROM YOUR PHONE Start a new agent in any project, rename it, and close it when it is done. BUILT FOR A PHONE Lochan tells each agent it is being driven from a phone, so it leads with the answer, keeps replies short and batches its questions. PAIRED IN ONE SCAN Run one line on your Mac or Linux machine, then scan the code it shows. Your phone makes its own key, and it stays in the phone's Keychain. Nothing to type, no private key to copy. Save every machine you own and switch between them from the title bar. No account, and no Lochan server in between: your phone talks to your computers over SSH. Away from home you need a route to them, and Tailscale is the two-minute version. ALSO IN LOCHAN: A PRIVATE AI CHAT Chat with Apple's on-device model, open models downloaded to your phone, or cloud models with your own API key. Conversations branch instead of overwriting, and you can share one with a link we cannot read. Lochan works with Herdr, the terminal workspace for AI coding agents, on the computers you own.

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BB Run

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BB Run keeps your whole dev workflow one click away — right in the menu bar. Start a build, stop a run, or jump back to any open Xcode workspace without switching apps. BB Run quietly records every run and turns them into trends you can actually use. WHAT YOU GET • Menu-bar control — run, stop and bring to front any open Xcode workspace • Pick the destination (simulator or your Mac) before you launch • Automatic run history — every launch logged with time and result • Trends & charts — daily / weekly / monthly run counts, durations and a project leaderboard • Projects pane — pin, hide and reorder; last run at a glance • BB Run for iPhone — projects and trends in your pocket, synced over iCloud • 10 languages, light & dark themes PRIVACY FIRST No analytics, no tracking, no servers. Your history lives on your Mac and in your own iCloud. ONE-TIME PURCHASE No subscription, no in-app purchases. Buy once — works on Mac and iPhone.

Screenshots

Lochan4 screens
BB Run4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Lochan at none against BB Run's 1. BB Run's advantage is iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

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. BB Run sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Lochan asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Lochan ships an update fortnightly, BB Run every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
Lochan versus BB Run: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLochanBB Run
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS26.018.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size63 MB11 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperPurplecones, LLC彬 景

In-app purchases

None

Lochan

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

BB Run

One-time1
  • Lifetime Unlock$1.99

Questions

Is Lochan free?
Lochan is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is BB Run free?
BB Run is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Lochan or BB Run have ads?
Neither Lochan nor BB Run shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Lochan or BB Run?
Lochan ships an update fortnightly, and BB Run every 2 weeks. Most recently, Lochan was updated on October 10, 2026 and BB Run on October 26, 2026.

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