Comparison

Tailscode vs Treft

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

Head to head
About

Tailscode

Interact with AI agents like Claude Code and Oh My Pi from your phone. Monitor and approve commands, view code changes, and manage conversations live on your lock screen. All data is transmitted point-to-point over your private network.

Highlights
  • Live Lock Screen Activities for conversations
  • Approve commands and answer agent questions
  • View code diffs and output inline
  • Manage multiple servers and conversations
  • Track conversation costs and model usage
  • End-to-end encrypted communication
Features
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Send a prompt to Claude Code, opencode or Oh My Pi from your phone, pocket it, and watch the turn finish on your Lock Screen. Approve the risky command, answer the agent's question, read every diff — from anywhere on your own Tailscale network. WHAT YOU NEED A Mac or Linux machine on your tailnet (Tailscale is free for personal use) running one of your agents: opencode, Claude Code through the open-source claude-bridge, or Oh My Pi through the open-source omp-bridge. Set-up is three verified steps, and a built-in demo lets you try every screen before you wire anything. THE TURN, LIVE ON YOUR LOCK SCREEN • A Live Activity per conversation: what it is doing, for how long, and how many tools it has run. • An approval request alerts you; a finished turn lingers with its outcome. Tap to land in the exact chat. • Updates arrive by push while the app is suspended. A NATIVE TRANSCRIPT, NOT A TERMINAL • Streaming text written at the model's own speed, with thinking and tool runs folded into readable groups. • Diffs, commands and their real output inline; syntax-highlighted code with byte-exact copy. • Allow once, always, or deny — without leaving the chat. Agent questions become tappable cards. • Queue the next message while a turn runs, edit it before it goes, or stop the turn on the server. • Every picture the agent hands you, in a gallery you can zoom, save or share. EVERY MACHINE ON ONE BOARD • All your servers' conversations in one list, live status first, grouped by project. • Read the repository before you trust the change: branch, staged, changed, untracked, and the diff of any file. • Subagents dock inside the turn that spawned them; a compaction is drawn as a seam with what it kept. • Slash commands from the server's own catalog, per-message model and reasoning effort, forking. KNOW WHAT IT COSTS • Every conversation priced, every month totalled across machines — by model, project and tool. • Plan limits and quotas for Claude, Grok, Ollama Cloud, DeepSeek and more, on Home and in a widget. YOURS, END TO END • Point-to-point over your tailnet. No relay servers, no account, no analytics, nobody reading your code. • Programmatic UIKit, Swift 6, Liquid Glass on iOS 26. Dark mode, Dynamic Type, haptics. • Open source under GPL-3.0 — the app, the engine, and both bridges. FREE, WITH AN HONEST PRO The free app is the complete core: one server, full chat, approvals, attachments, models, forking, and Live Activities. Tailscode Pro is a one-time purchase, no subscription: multiple saved servers, concurrent Live Activities, and a supporter badge. Tailscode is independent open-source software: not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic, Tailscale Inc., the opencode project or Oh My Pi. Privacy policy: https://midgarcorp.cc/tailscode/privacy Source code: https://github.com/guitaripod/Tailscode

About

Treft

Features
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Make a change. Review a pull request. Keep your laptop closed. Treft puts coding agents and GitHub reviews on your phone. Describe a change, follow the work, then inspect the diff and test results before you decide what merges. START WITH AN IDEA Choose your project and tell an agent what to change. The work runs in a cloud sandbox. Follow its progress from your phone and stop a run when you need to. REVIEW THE ACTUAL CHANGE Work through a deck of code changes, one piece at a time. Read the diff and Treft's explanation. Mark a concern, request changes or approve the merge. CHECK THE WORK Treft independently re-runs supported tests and shows the results. See what passed, what failed and what could not be checked. When screenshots are available, see the result alongside the code. KEEP YOUR TEAM MOVING Bring pull requests from coding agents and teammates into one review queue. Get notified when work needs your attention, wherever you are. CONNECT YOUR GITHUB PROJECTS Choose which repositories to connect through the Treft GitHub app. You can revoke access when you need to. Test and screenshot availability depends on your repository setup and supported tooling. Treft is free to download. Optional Pro subscriptions and prepaid credits provide additional usage. Agent runs and paid verification use credits for work performed, whether or not you approve the result. Support: https://treft.dev/support Privacy: https://treft.dev/privacy Terms: https://treft.dev/terms Apple standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Tailscode4 screens
Treft4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Tailscode at every 2 days against Treft's every 5 days. Tailscode also leads on device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Tailscode sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Treft sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $29.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tailscode ships an update every 2 days, Treft every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Tailscode versus Treft: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTailscodeTreft
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMidgar OySifr Solutions, LLC

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Tailscode

One-time4
  • Small Tip$2.99
  • Generous Tip$9.99
  • Tailscode Pro$14.99
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  • Lavish Tip$19.99
5 purchases

Treft

Subscriptions2
  • Treft Pro$29.991 Month
  • Treft Pro (Annual)$299.991 Year
One-time3
  • Small Credit Pack$9.99
  • Medium Credit Pack$24.99
  • Large Credit Pack$99.99

Questions

Is Tailscode free?
Tailscode is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Treft free?
Treft is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Tailscode or Treft have ads?
Neither Tailscode nor Treft shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tailscode or Treft?
Tailscode ships an update every 2 days, and Treft every 5 days. Most recently, Tailscode was updated on October 11, 2026 and Treft on October 9, 2026.

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