Comparison

farcrew vs Python Code Cards

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

Head to head
About

farcrew

Features
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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

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Python Code Cards

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Write Python. Save it as a card. Run and debug it on your iPhone or iPad. Python Code Cards is an on-device code notebook for organizing editable Python snippets and notes. Five ready-to-edit samples let you try execution and debugging immediately after installation. ORGANIZE CODE AS CARDS • Add code cards and notes • Edit, duplicate, delete, collapse, and reorder cards • Keep source code, breakpoints, watches, and recent results on your device RUN PYTHON 3.14 ON-DEVICE • View standard output and errors on each card • See the source line and message for exceptions • Inspect execution time and resulting variables • Use the core app without an internet connection DEBUG WITH BREAKPOINTS • Set breakpoints from line numbers • Continue, pause, step over, step into, and step out • Inspect the current line, changed variables, watch expressions, and call stack • Restart or stop from dedicated controls WRITE WITH LESS FRICTION • Python syntax highlighting • Local completion for keywords, built-ins, and symbols already in your code • System, Light, and Dark appearance across every screen • Switch the entire app among 10 languages from Settings PRIVACY BY DESIGN No account, advertising, analytics, tracking, or cloud sync. Cards and settings stay in the app's local storage and are not automatically sent to the developer. Version 1.0 includes the bundled Python standard library. Installing third-party packages with pip, AI completion, and cloud execution are not supported. Normal execution has a time limit to help protect the device from code that does not stop.

Screenshots

farcrew4 screens
Python Code Cards4 screens

Verdict

The call

farcrew and Python Code Cards are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
farcrew versus Python Code Cards: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterfarcrewPython Code Cards
PriceFreeFree
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB93 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperpoordevsSMART BIT K.K

In-app purchases

None

farcrew

No in-app purchases

None

Python Code Cards

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is farcrew free?
farcrew is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Python Code Cards free?
Python Code Cards is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do farcrew or Python Code Cards have ads?
Neither farcrew nor Python Code Cards shows ads.

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