Comparison

Lochan vs Robot Eyes

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

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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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Robot Eyes

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Give any robot eyes with the iPhone you already have. Robot Eyes turns an iPhone Pro into a robot's camera and a dataset recorder at the same time, from one camera session, so the live stream and the saved recording share one clock and one frame counter. RECORD • Color video (HEVC), LiDAR depth and confidence maps, accelerometer and gyroscope, and the camera's position and orientation from ARKit, with per-frame camera intrinsics. • The open Stray Scanner dataset layout, readable by existing tools, plus a session.json that summarizes rates, thermal state, battery and completeness. • Crash-safe fragmented video, a clear Complete / Incomplete state for every session, Keep pins, bulk Select ā–ø Delete, and Share with real progress and a Cancel that works. STREAM • Live camera over the USB cable in the Mobcam wire format (the one Moblin uses), 15 fps by default, adapting to heat. • A once-a-second status message: frame rates, thermal, battery, free storage, camera tilt, and optionally the camera's position, heading and speed at 5 to 15 Hz. • A small HTTP file server for the measurement files, so a computer can grade a run seconds after it ends. • Your computer may start and stop recordings, if you allow it. • A ROS 2 camera adapter (Humble and Jazzy) publishes Image and CameraInfo, with checkerboard calibration support. • Wi-Fi is off by default. Turn it on and receivers must present the access token shown in Settings. MADE FOR THE BENCH • Every screen carries a one-word label, so "be on the Record view" is a checkable instruction. • A heads-up display in words, not icons: what the stream is doing, what the disk is doing, what to do next. • Presets for a general recorder and for the Robo Bump Truck, the RC truck this app was built to drive. PRIVACY • No account, no analytics, no ads, no third-party code. Nothing leaves the phone unless you connect a receiver or tap Share. Support: rooneytech.pages.dev/robot-eyes REQUIRES • An iPhone with a LiDAR scanner (iPhone 12 Pro and later Pro models) and iOS 18.6 or newer. Robot Eyes is built on the open-source Stray Scanner recorder (MIT). Source and the ROS adapter: github.com/12mv2/robo-bump-truck-ros

Screenshots

Lochan4 screens
Robot Eyes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Robot Eyes at every 2 days against Lochan's fortnightly. Robot Eyes also leads on iOS requirement (18.6 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Lochan ships an update fortnightly, Robot Eyes every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
Lochan versus Robot Eyes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLochanRobot Eyes
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.018.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size63 MB6 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperPurplecones, LLCColin Rooney

In-app purchases

None

Lochan

No in-app purchases

None

Robot Eyes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Lochan free?
Lochan is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Robot Eyes free?
Robot Eyes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Lochan or Robot Eyes have ads?
Neither Lochan nor Robot Eyes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Lochan or Robot Eyes?
Lochan ships an update fortnightly, and Robot Eyes every 2 days. Most recently, Lochan was updated on October 10, 2026 and Robot Eyes on October 18, 2026.

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