Comparison

Ground Control Chat vs Cadence

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ€” 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

Cadence

Features
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adence shows every contribution you have made to GitHub on one screen: commits, pull requests, issues and reviews, from your first year to today. Pick a window and the grid and the total recompute. Swipe to step a year. All is simply the widest window: one row per year, one cell per month, every year you have. READ-ONLY ACCESS The scope is read:user, the narrowest permission that can count private contributions. Nothing can be pushed or edited, and your code is never read. Revoke it on GitHub at any time. NO ACCOUNT Nothing to sign up for. You approve a code on GitHub's own page and the token stays in your device keychain. There are no Cadence servers, no analytics and no advertising. WORKS OFFLINE Your history is cached on the device, so every window and every year reads without a connection. Nothing is disabled and nothing is greyed out; a quiet line names the date the record reaches. FREE, NO ADS Cadence is free, with no in-app purchases and no ads. WHAT GETS COUNTED The totals come from GitHub's own contribution calendar, so everything it counts is inside every number here, private contributions included. Commits, pull requests, issues and reviews are broken out per day; discussions and new repositories are in the total only, because GitHub does not report them separately.

Screenshots

Ground Control Chat4 screens
Cadence3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Cadence at 15.0 against Ground Control Chat's 17.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
Ground Control Chat versus Cadence: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGround Control ChatCadence
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeeklyโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod โ€” better
Requires iOS17.015.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size4 MB21 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperLASTRES SANCHO CARLOS ANDRESIVAN LOKAS

In-app purchases

None

Ground Control Chat

No in-app purchases

None

Cadence

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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