Drover vs iVerb
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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 ā the developer of this app cannot see them. WHAT YOU CAN DO ⢠See every agent and its status at a glance ā waiting for you, working, done ⢠Read the session as a chat, with Markdown, syntax-highlighted code and diffs ⢠Answer an agent's permission prompt by tapping a button instead of typing into a raw terminal pane ⢠Send follow-up instructions, cycle the agent's mode, or dictate by voice ⢠Attach a photo from your camera or library for the agent to look at ⢠Get a notification the moment an agent is blocked and needs you ⢠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 ā 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.
iVerb
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Your coding assistants run on your machines. Follow their work from your iPhone or iPad. iVerb is an SSH terminal and companion for remote development. Connect to your own Mac, Linux host, or WSL environment to read conversations, review code changes, reply to tasks, and use a real terminal. Works with Claude Code, Codex CLI, OpenCode, and DeepSeek Harness running on your own server. Available interactions depend on the CLI and supported transcript formats. CONVERSATIONS AND PROJECTS ⢠Read project conversations, code diffs, and tool activity ⢠Swipe to quote messages and add images from Photos or the clipboard ⢠Preview remote images, text, code, and Markdown through links in project chats ⢠Review recognized collaborating agents, work rounds, results, and separate conversations ⢠Keep editable project to-dos on your device A TERMINAL FOR YOUR PHONE ⢠Connect over SSH to home, office, or cloud hosts ⢠Use Zellij or tmux sessions with terminal function keys ⢠Customize shortcut order and preview terminal themes ⢠CJK input, Dynamic Type, and accessibility support NOTIFICATIONS AND ACTIONS ⢠Receive task-completion and input-needed alerts ⢠Reply or use quick actions for compatible tasks ⢠Optional encrypted hosted push relay access is included with Pro CONNECTIONS AND DATA ⢠You choose the hosts; connection credentials are stored in the device Keychain ⢠SSH encrypts transfers; conversation caches and app to-dos are stored locally ⢠Images you choose to attach are uploaded to your configured server ⢠iVerb does not provide a VPN or an AI model service. Use a network path or networking tools that can reach your host START FREE, UPGRADE WHEN YOU NEED MORE ⢠Try the built-in demo without a server ⢠iVerb Pro is a one-time purchase for additional servers and projects, fonts, Live Activity, the hosted push relay, and alternate icons ⢠No subscriptions. Tips are optional Full remote functionality requires an accessible SSH host and the relevant command-line tools.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Drover at none against iVerb's 4. Drover also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. iVerb sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Drover asks for nothing beyond the download.
Drover ships an update every 5 days, iVerb every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Drover | iVerb |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | ā |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days ā better | Every 9 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No ā better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | ā |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 ā better | 17.0 |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | KEISUKE NISHITANI | å„ é©¬ |
In-app purchases
Drover
No in-app purchases
iVerb
- Buy me a coffee$2.99
- Buy me a meal$6.99
- iVerb Pro$9.99
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- Long-term supporter$14.99









