Tailscode vs herdrup
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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
herdrup
This app allows you to remotely manage and interact with AI coding agents running on your computer. Receive urgent notifications when agents require input, approve or reject actions, and send messages directly from your phone.
- View agent status at a glance
- Interact with live terminal sessions
- Receive push notifications for agent actions
- Send messages and files to agents
- Start new agents remotely
- SSH connection for secure local network access
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Herdrup is the phone client for herdr, the open-source tool that runs your AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, and around 18 more) in terminal sessions on your own machine. Those agents work for hours, then stop to ask: may I run this? which option? overwrite this file? Herdrup lets you answer, from your phone. It's a calm status board. When nothing needs you, the screen is quiet and you close it again. When an agent is waiting, it turns urgent, and you're one tap from the real terminal. WHAT YOU CAN DO • See every agent at a glance, grouped by what needs you, what's working, and what's idle • Jump into the live terminal: scroll the history, send keys, approve or reject the question it's blocked on • Get a push the moment an agent needs you, dies, or finishes. Nothing else • Message your agents with Gram: send a note, a file, or a short-lived API key, and delete it when you're done • Start a new agent: pick a folder, an agent, and a task HOW IT WORKS You run herdr on your own computer and it manages the agents in panes. Herdrup connects to it over SSH on your own network. No cloud in the middle, nothing public. Herdr is open source (github.com/jerryfane/herdr). Bring your own agents.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: herdrup at none against Tailscode's 4. Tailscode's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 5 days). 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. herdrup 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 herdrup. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively.
Tailscode ships an update every 2 days, herdrup every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tailscode | herdrup |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 5 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Midgar Oy | Jerry Fanelli |
Customer experience
Tailscode
herdrup
In-app purchases
Tailscode
- Small Tip$2.99
- Generous Tip$9.99
- Tailscode Pro$14.99
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- Lavish Tip$19.99
herdrup
No in-app purchases









