farcrew vs AppGlance
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
farcrew
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Your agents run on your machine. You watch from your phone. farcrew keeps a terminal session alive on a computer you own - a Mac, a Linux box, a VPS - and puts it in your pocket. Start a long run at your desk, close the lid, and pick it up on the train. Nothing was running on the phone, so nothing stopped. THE LOOP IT WAS BUILT FOR An agent works for twenty minutes, then stops to ask you something. Until you answer, it does nothing. farcrew notices the moment a session starts waiting and tells your phone. You read the question, type the answer, and the run continues. WHAT YOU GET ⢠Every run in one list - waiting first, then running, then finished, across every machine you have paired. ⢠A real terminal, not a remote control. Type, scroll, search the scrollback, pinch to resize the type, send Esc, Tab, Ctrl-C and the arrows from a key bar built for a thumb. ⢠Attach a photo or a file to a session straight from your phone. ⢠Notifications when a run needs you, and only then - a session you are already looking at never pings you. ⢠Port previews: publish a dev server from your machine on a secret URL and open it anywhere. ⢠Workspaces that keep the same shape on the phone, the desktop app and the web console. WORKS WITH WHAT YOU ALREADY RUN Anything that lives in a terminal: coding agents, build scripts, test suites, log tails, a plain shell. farcrew does not wrap a particular tool - it carries the terminal. BUILT SO WE CANNOT READ IT What is on your terminal is encrypted on your device and decrypted on your machine, with a key the two of them negotiate directly (X25519, AES-256-GCM). Our relay forwards ciphertext it holds no key for. Each machine's identity is pinned the first time you connect, and the app tells you loudly if it ever changes. Sign-in is a password plus a passkey, with recovery codes for the day the passkey is gone. WHAT YOU NEED ⢠A computer of your own, running macOS or Linux, that stays on while your work does. ⢠The farcrew daemon installed on it - one command, then a pairing code. ⢠A farcrew account. farcrew is not a shell that runs on your phone, and it is not a cloud that runs your code. It is the wire between the machine you already trust and the phone already in your hand. Questions: support@farcrew.app
AppGlance
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Watch your apps live, from your pocket: installs, sessions and events as they happen, every user's story, and a push the moment someone installs or buys. AppGlance is privacy-first analytics for the apps you build. Register an app, get a write key, add the SDK with two lines, and the dashboard starts filling the moment the first event lands. No IDFA, no fingerprinting, and nothing that forces a tracking pop-up on your users. LIVE, NOT LAST WEEK - Active now: how many people are on your apps at this moment - Today's pulse, hour by hour, across every app - Every day of the past year as a grid, so your busiest days stand out - A live feed of visits: who opened which app, how long they stayed, what they did - New installs and purchases as they happen EVERY APP IN ONE PLACE - Up to 20 apps on one account - A per-app breakdown: new users, actives and events for today, 7 days or 30 days, compared with the window before - App Store, TestFlight and your own debug builds kept apart automatically WHO, NOT JUST HOW MANY - Every user as an anonymous install id, or a name if your app chooses to identify them - A full story per user: their sessions, events, device, version and country - Search, property filters and CSV export ANSWERS, NOT JUST CHARTS - Funnels built from your own events, in seconds - Day 1, 7 and 30 retention with the full curve - Countries, versions, session lengths, daily and hourly charts, window-over-window compare ALERTS ON YOUR PHONE - Push notifications for the signals you pick: a new install, a purchase, a trial start, or any event you name - Tap the alert and land on that user's story ANONYMOUS BY DESIGN - Random install ids, never advertising identifiers - Users get names only if your app explicitly provides one - Presence pings are never billed, and you can erase an app's data at any time FREE PLAN Free includes 100,000 events a month, up to 20 apps, every chart, feed, alert and export, and 90 days of event history. Charts and totals never expire. No card needed. Your account and plan are the same on the web at appglance.app. PAID PLANS (AUTO-RENEWABLE SUBSCRIPTIONS) A paid plan raises your monthly event quota and your event history, and adds live auto-refresh (on Free you refresh with a pull). Each plan is sold monthly or yearly: - Indie: 1,000,000 events a month, 6 months of history. $4.99 per month or $49 per year - Studio: 2,500,000 events a month, 12 months of history. $14.99 per month or $149 per year - Scale: 7,000,000 events a month, 12 months of history. $39 per month or $399 per year - Max: 18,000,000 events a month, 12 months of history. $99 per month or $999 per year Prices are in US dollars; the App Store shows the exact price in your own currency before you buy. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. The subscription renews automatically at the same price unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for the renewal within 24 hours before that period ends. You can manage or cancel the subscription at any time in your App Store account settings. A plan bought on the web covers the app too, so there is nothing to buy twice. Made by a one-person indie studio that wanted to keep an eye on its own apps from the sofa. Questions: support@appglance.app Terms of Use: https://appglance.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://appglance.app/privacy Apple's standard EULA also applies: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: farcrew at 16.0 against AppGlance's 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | farcrew | AppGlance |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | ā | Every 3 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad ā better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 ā better | 26.0 |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | poordevs | Dylan Lualdi |
In-app purchases
farcrew
No in-app purchases
AppGlance
No in-app purchases









