Comparison

Ground Control Chat vs HogView

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

Head to head
About

Ground Control Chat

Features
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Every Claude Code session on your Mac becomes a pixel pilot on your phone. Ground Control shows your AI coding agents as unique little creatures marching on a neon city street. Cyan means working. Lavender means idle. Pink means one of them needs you. Tap a pilot to open its conversation. Read every reply as it streams in. Send new orders from the couch, the train, or the other side of the world, and watch your actual terminal on the Mac update live. SETUP IN ONE MINUTE Run one command on your Mac (npx @clastres/groundcontrol), scan the QR code it prints, done. No account. No signup. PRIVATE BY ARCHITECTURE Your pairing key is generated on your Mac and shared only through the QR code you scan. Everything travels end to end encrypted. Our relay routes sealed bytes and cannot read them. We store nothing. UNIQUE PILOTS Every session hatches its own creature, generated from its identity, with its own walk cycle. It keeps that face forever. Requires a Mac running Claude Code and the Ground Control daemon.

About

HogView

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See your product analytics and subscription revenue together, and quickly understand what changed. HogView brings metrics from PostHog, RevenueCat, Stripe, Sentry and Plausible into one focused iPhone dashboard. Track MRR, revenue, active subscriptions, users, funnels, retention, errors and other key product metrics without jumping between services. KNOW WHAT CHANGED Compare important metrics with previous periods and see both the direction and the underlying values. Small samples are shown honestly instead of being turned into misleading percentages. YOUR DASHBOARDS ON IPHONE View your existing dashboards through native mobile charts, including metrics, time series, bars, tables, funnels, retention and activity grids. Open any metric to inspect trends, averages, peaks and exact daily values. METRICS AT A GLANCE • Product analytics and subscription revenue in one place • MRR, ARR, revenue, subscriptions and trials • Active users, signups, funnels and retention • Stripe revenue and payment metrics • Sentry issue and error metrics • Plausible website analytics • Previous-period comparisons • Exact-value tables for detailed analysis • Home Screen widget • Daily digest and metric alerts • Multiple products and data sources with HogView Pro • Light, dark and custom themes BUILT FOR TRUST HogView is read-only. It cannot edit your dashboards, insights, events, feature flags, experiments or provider settings. Your API credentials are stored in the iOS Keychain. HogView connects directly to your selected services, without sending your analytics data through a HogView server. TRY IT BEFORE CONNECTING Explore the complete experience using included sample data. No account or API key is required to try the demo. FREE AND PRO The free version supports one product, one data source and three pinned metrics, with full access to dashboards and metric details. HogView Pro adds unlimited products, sources and pinned metrics, plus the Home Screen widget, daily digest, alerts and calculated metrics. HogView Pro is available as an auto-renewing monthly or annual subscription. The annual plan may include a free introductory trial when eligible. HogView is an independent third-party client. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by PostHog, RevenueCat, Stripe, Sentry or Plausible. All trademarks belong to their respective owners. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Ground Control Chat4 screens
HogView4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Ground Control Chat at none against HogView's 2. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. HogView sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Ground Control Chat asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference Ā· 5 level
Ground Control Chat versus HogView: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGround Control ChatHogView
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB51 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLASTRES SANCHO CARLOS ANDRESJakub Gajzler

In-app purchases

None

Ground Control Chat

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

HogView

Subscriptions2
  • HogView Pro$4.991 Month
  • HogView Pro7 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Ground Control Chat free?
Ground Control Chat is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is HogView free?
HogView is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Ground Control Chat or HogView have ads?
Neither Ground Control Chat nor HogView shows ads.

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