Comparison

Drover vs Muqun

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

Head to head
About

Drover

Supervise AI coding agents running on your computer directly from your phone. View sessions as a chat, interact with prompts via buttons, and receive notifications when agents need your input. Connects directly via SSH with no intermediary servers.

Highlights
  • Supervise AI coding agents
  • View sessions as chat
  • Interact with prompts via buttons
  • Receive agent status notifications
  • Direct SSH connection
  • Voice dictation
  • Attach photos to agents
Features
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Drover is a mobile client for the AI coding agents you run under Herdr on your own computer. It turns them into something you can supervise from your phone. It is not a mobile terminal. Drover speaks the agent's language: it renders a running session as a readable chat, turns permission prompts into buttons you can tap, and tells you the moment an agent is waiting on you. NO SERVER IN BETWEEN Drover connects straight from your device to your own machine over SSH. There is no service in the middle. Your transcripts, your commands and your code go to your machine and nowhere else โ€” the developer of this app cannot see them. WHAT YOU CAN DO โ€ข See every agent and its status at a glance โ€” waiting for you, working, done โ€ข Read the session as a chat, with Markdown, syntax-highlighted code and diffs โ€ข Answer an agent's permission prompt by tapping a button instead of typing into a raw terminal pane โ€ข Send follow-up instructions, cycle the agent's mode, or dictate by voice โ€ข Attach a photo from your camera or library for the agent to look at โ€ข Get a notification the moment an agent is blocked and needs you โ€ข Switch between several machines, or watch them all in one list TRY IT WITH NO SETUP Tap "Try the demo" on the first screen. It runs a scripted session entirely on your device, with no host and no connection, so you can see how Drover works before setting anything up. WHAT YOU NEED Drover is a client for a machine you already own. To use it for real you need a computer running Herdr (herdr.dev) with your coding agents in it, SSH access to that machine with key-based authentication, and Herdr 0.8.0 or newer. PRIVACY Speech recognition runs entirely on your device โ€” Drover will not fall back to a server. Notifications carry a fixed message and never any of your transcript. Your SSH key is stored in the iOS Keychain and never leaves your device. Drover is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the Herdr project, Anthropic, OpenAI, or GitHub, and is not certified by any of them.

About

Muqun

Control and interact with terminal sessions on your computer from your iPhone. Follow live output, grant permissions to coding agents, and manage workspaces seamlessly. Offers a real terminal experience with customizable themes and multiple language support.

Highlights
  • Real terminal grid with full-color output
  • On-screen keyboard for precise input
  • Agent permission granting and interaction
  • Syntax highlighting and image previews
  • Customizable themes and language support
  • Offline demo mode
Features
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Keep your coding work within reach. Muqun brings your connected machines, AI coding assistants and terminals to your iPhone and iPad, so you can check what is happening and decide what comes next. A HOME FOR YOUR WORK Choose Classic or Editorial Home. Return to recent sessions, switch Gateways and start your next task from one place. WORK WITH OPENCODE Follow conversations and tool activity in a dedicated workbench. Move between projects and sessions, inspect task lists and code changes, and choose the models and modes offered by your connected setup. STAY IN CONTROL Queue a follow-up, steer an ongoing conversation or remove a pending message. Review AI assistant permission requests and answer them from the app. KEEP YOUR TERMINALS CLOSE Use remote terminals, connect to saved SSH hosts and reach a Gateway through an SSH tunnel. Keyboard shortcuts and modifier keys help with command-line work on a touch screen. MAKE IT YOURS Browse and preview themes, build a personal theme library and adjust artwork and visual effects. Choose an app icon and fonts to suit your workspace. FILES & CODE CHANGES Browse files, attach files and images to tasks, and inspect staged and unstaged Git changes without losing your place. Muqun connects to tools running on your own machines. Gateway features require a compatible Muqun Gateway and backend; the OpenCode workbench requires a supported OpenCode setup. SSH access requires a reachable SSH host.

Screenshots

Drover4 screens
Muqun4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Drover at Free against Muqun's $9.99. Drover also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks). On review sentiment, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

Drover is free to download; Muqun costs $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Drover ships an update every 5 days, Muqun every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 6 level
Drover versus Muqun: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDroverMuqun
PriceFree โ€” better$9.99
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Update frequencyEvery 5 days โ€” betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 โ€” better16.4
Further details โ€” not scored
Size37 MB101 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKEISUKE NISHITANIPuffinStudio

Customer experience

Drover

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Muqun

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Drover

No in-app purchases

None

Muqun

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Drover free?
Drover is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Muqun free?
Muqun costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Drover or Muqun have ads?
Neither Drover nor Muqun shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Drover or Muqun?
Drover ships an update every 5 days, and Muqun every 3 weeks. Most recently, Drover was updated on October 31, 2026 and Muqun on October 31, 2026.

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