Tailscode vs Moray
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tailscode
Manage and monitor AI coding agents running on your computers directly from your mobile device. Start tasks, check progress on multiple agents simultaneously, and receive notifications for completed jobs. Supports various AI models, including those on your own GPU.
- Remote agent management
- Real-time progress tracking
- Multi-agent monitoring
- Support for local and cloud models
- Task queuing and editing
- Detailed conversation transcripts
- Cost estimation and tracking
Read full descriptionHide full description
Your coding agents don't stop when you leave the desk, so neither should you. Tailscode puts every agent running on your own computers in your pocket: Claude Code, opencode and Oh My Pi, on any model they can run, including one on your own graphics card. Start a task from the couch, check on six at once from anywhere, and get a ping when the long one finishes. Your chats go straight to your machines over your own Tailscale network, never through a relay, with no sign-in. Free and open source. ONE COMMAND TO SET UP For Claude Code, one line on the computer you code on installs the bridge and ends with a QR code. Scan it, confirm, and the app has your machine; opencode has a one-line installer too. Want to look first? A built-in demo shows the main screens with no server at all. EVERY AGENT AT A GLANCE • Home is one ranked board: a sentence that says who needs you and what is working, then the chats waiting on you, working, pinned and recent. • The Agents board shows what needs you, what is working, what runs in the background and what finished in the last hour, with approve and answer on each card. Watch turns it into a full-screen wall of every agent. • Peek at any agent without opening its chat: its step, its last moves, its context. ANY MODEL, EVEN YOUR OWN GPU • Whatever your agent can run, from cloud models to a local model served by Ollama or llama.cpp on your own machine, picked per chat with its reasoning effort. • Carry a conversation to another model: the next one gets a short brief of the chat and picks up the thread. • A party of six favourite models and their effort levels, one tap or one swipe of the model pill away. LONG RUNS, NO BABYSITTING • A Live Activity on your Lock Screen for a running conversation, one for each with Pro: what it is doing, for how long, and how many tools it has run. • Notifications say what happened: how long it took, what it changed and the first of what it said. Reply from the Lock Screen to start the next turn. An approval shows the exact command and asks for Face ID or your passcode; a question shows its options as buttons. • Queue the next message while a turn runs, edit it before it goes, or stop the turn on the server. A NATIVE TRANSCRIPT, NOT A TERMINAL • Megatron folds a turn's thinking and tool runs into one head you open to read, search and replay every step. • Diffs, commands and their real output inline; syntax-highlighted code with byte-exact copy. • Send screenshots and photos; every picture the agent hands back lands in a gallery. NOT ONLY CODE Your machines know things. Ask what is eating the GPU, research a question, tidy a folder, check a price: any agent, any model, from anywhere. KNOW WHAT IT COSTS • Every conversation priced, every month totalled across machines, by model, project and tool. Always an estimate, never a bill. • Plan limits and quotas per provider and account, with the pace and turns left, on Home and in widgets. YOURS, END TO END • Your chats travel point to point over your tailnet, never through a relay. No sign-in, no ads, no tracking, and your code and conversations never reach us. • iPhone, iPad and Mac, plus a Linux desktop app, all open source under GPL-3.0: the app, the engine and the bridges. FREE, WITH AN HONEST PRO The free app is the complete core on one server: full chat, the Agents and Home boards, approvals, attachments, every model, a Live Activity at a time. Tailscode Pro is a one-time purchase, no subscription: unlimited servers in one list, concurrent Live Activities, iPhone and Mac on the same Apple Account, the delegate board, and a supporter heart. 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
Moray
Read full descriptionHide full description
Moray is a native SSH, SFTP, and terminal client for iPhone, iPad, and Mac — with a real terminal, a dual-pane file manager, port-forwarding tunnels, and on-device key security. With Moray Pro, your hosts and snippets sync through your own iCloud; your keys and passwords never leave the Keychain unless you choose. No account, no vendor server. ▸ A REAL TERMINAL A full terminal powered by SwiftTerm — rich color, a fast keyboard, and smooth scrollback. Open several sessions as tabs, name them, switch between them from the keyboard, search the scrollback, and run commands automatically on connect. Moray remembers what you typed on each server — never a password — so you can search it and re-run. The Smart Bar puts arrows, Esc, Tab, Ctrl, and paste one tap away. ▸ SFTP FILE MANAGER Browse, upload, download, rename, and delete over SFTP, reopening in the folder you left. Preview with Quick Look, edit text files in place, or pick which app opens each file type. On iPad and Mac, a dual-pane manager copies files and folders between servers — or to your computer — with drag and drop, and a file pane can sit beside the terminal. ▸ YOUR SERVERS IN THE FILES APP On iPhone and iPad, mount a host and it appears in Files next to iCloud Drive — open a remote file straight into any app that uses the document picker, and save back to it. ▸ PORT-FORWARDING TUNNELS Forward a local port to a database or dashboard behind your server. Import LocalForward lines from ~/.ssh/config, start every tunnel with one tap, and keep them running with a Live Activity. ▸ KEYS DONE RIGHT Generate Ed25519 keys, or import Ed25519 and RSA keys. Keys and saved passwords live in the device Keychain — encrypted, never synced unless you opt in, and behind an optional biometric app lock. A new server's fingerprint and key picture are shown before you trust it; a key that later changes stops the connection, with both keys side by side. ▸ SMART AUTOFILL Moray spots sudo, login and passphrase prompts and offers a Face ID– or Touch ID–gated fill — enter your password once, not every time. ▸ ORGANIZED HOSTS Group and tag your servers, with an icon and color each. Quick Connect (⇧⌘K) and Siri Shortcuts connect you in seconds; jump hosts reach servers behind a bastion. ▸ SNIPPETS Save the commands you run all the time — with fill-in placeholders — and run or paste them into any session. ▸ MAKE IT YOURS Start from built-in terminal themes or design your own with a full color editor. Choose your font — SF Mono, Menlo, or any monospaced font you've installed — plus size, line height and cursor style. ▸ SYNC, YOUR WAY (MORAY PRO) With Moray Pro, hosts, groups, snippets and host keys sync through your own iCloud — no Moray account, ever. Keys stay on the device unless you turn on iCloud Keychain sync. ▸ APPLE-NATIVE THROUGHOUT Siri and Spotlight, recent-hosts widgets (Moray Pro), a keyboard-driven Mac app with a menu-bar extra, a biometric app lock, and JSON backup. ________________ FREE & PRO Free: unlimited hosts, the terminal (up to three sessions at once), a single-pane SFTP file manager, the remote editor, key management, autofill, command history, SSH config import, and Quick Connect. Moray Pro adds iCloud sync, port-forwarding tunnels, jump hosts, automatic key auth, dual-pane transfers and server-to-server copy, Files app mounts, unlimited terminal tabs, custom themes, unlimited snippets, and widgets — as a monthly or yearly subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase. ________________ PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account and no vendor servers — sync (Moray Pro) is your iCloud, or nothing • Private keys and passwords stay in the Keychain, device-local by default • Host-key checks you can see: a new server's fingerprint is shown before it's trusted, and a changed key stops the connection until you decide ________________ Privacy Policy: https://moray.bartstudio.io/privacy/ Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Moray at none against Tailscode's 4. Tailscode's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 weeks) and chart position (#101 vs unranked). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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
Both are free to download. Tailscode sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Moray asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Tailscode against 5.0 for Moray. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
Tailscode ships an update every 2 days, Moray every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on November 10, 2026.
| Parameter | Tailscode | Moray |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Best chart rank | #101 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 26.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 81 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Midgar Oy | Bartlomiej Zabicki Mobile Developer |
In-app purchases
Tailscode
- Small Tip$2.99
- Generous Tip$9.99
- Tailscode Pro$14.99
Show 1 moreShow fewer
- Lavish Tip$19.99
Moray
No in-app purchases









