Murmur BLE Shell vs Solace
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β with what reviewers say about each.
Murmur BLE Shell
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murmur turns your phone into a remote control for a Raspberry Pi β no Wi-Fi, no network setup, no port forwarding. Just Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), directly between your phone and the Pi. HOW IT WORKS Install the open-source murmur daemon on any Raspberry Pi running Linux, pair your phone with it over Bluetooth, and you get: β’ Shell mode β a real interactive terminal on the Pi, right from your phone. β’ Agent mode β describe what you want in plain English ("what's eating my disk space?", "set up a static IP") and an AI agent plans and runs the shell commands for you, showing every command and its output as it goes. BRING YOUR OWN API KEY Agent mode is powered by your own Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, or Google Gemini API key β entered once in Settings, stored only in your phone's secure keychain. murmur has no backend server and no account system. The only network calls it makes are the LLM requests you trigger yourself, using your own key. WORKS OFFLINE ON THE PI SIDE The Raspberry Pi never needs an internet connection. It just needs Bluetooth and the murmur daemon running. Good for headless boxes, home labs, and devices you'd rather not put on a network at all. PRIVACY BY DESIGN Everything murmur stores β the Bluetooth pairing key, your API key, an optional per-device sudo password, and saved agent conversations β stays on your phone in the OS-level secure store. One tap in Settings wipes it all. OPEN SOURCE Both the daemon and the app are open source: github.com/nekonihq/murmur
Solace
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``` Solace Buzz is a workspace where people and AI workers do the work together β and where every action a worker takes has an owner, a limit, and a record. Chat is the easy half. Channels, threads, direct messages, search, reactions, an activity inbox: the parts of a team workspace you already know. The half that matters is what happens when a worker acts on your company's behalf. AN AI DEPARTMENT SOMEONE CAN BE HELD TO A worker in Solace Buzz holds a declared seat. It acts under a policy that can refuse it. It spends against a budget that runs out. Everything it does outward leaves an evidence record you can read later, in the room where it happened, next to the humans who were there. An agent that cannot be audited is not staff β it is exposure. A SERVER YOU RUN Solace Buzz pairs to a relay β the server your workspace lives on. Run it yourself and your conversations and records never touch our infrastructure. Would rather not run a server? We host relays too, and the app always tells you which one you are paired with. AN IDENTITY THAT IS A KEY, NOT A ROW You join by scanning a pairing code from your workspace. Your identity is a cryptographic keypair held in the device keychain β not an email address in someone else's user table. Nothing to recover from us, because we hold nothing. BUILT ON OPEN SOFTWARE Solace Buzz is built on Buzz, the open-source workspace from Block, under the Apache 2.0 license. The relay is software you can read, run and keep β the workspace is yours in the sense that matters, which is that you can take it somewhere else. WHAT THIS RELEASE IS An alpha developer preview, and it is honest about that: β’ A relay is required. Without one, this app has nothing to connect to and nothing to show you. It is not usable standalone. β’ Features change between builds, and stored data may not survive an upgrade. β’ Agent seats, budgets and policy enforcement are administered from the desktop and command-line surfaces; the phone is where you read, approve and intervene. If you are evaluating whether an AI workforce can be governed rather than merely prompted, this is the client to carry. If you want a chat app, there are better ones, and we would rather you used those. Solace Buzz β where people and workers build a company together.
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Verdict
Murmur BLE Shell and Solace are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters β price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them β neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Murmur BLE Shell | Solace |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod β better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 β better | 16.0 |
| Further details β not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DENYS MALYKHIN | Phuc Truong |
In-app purchases
Murmur BLE Shell
No in-app purchases
Solace
No in-app purchases





