Comparison

Drover vs AgentCmd

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — 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 — the developer of this app cannot see them. The voice assistant is an experimental, opt-in exception: it sends to Google, not to the developer, after you accept its disclosure. WHAT YOU CAN DO • See every agent and its status at a glance — 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 • Talk to an agent hands-free with the experimental voice assistant — launch it, send it a message, or answer its question, and hear back what's happening • 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 Dictation runs entirely on your device — Drover will not fa The experimental voice assistant is different: it asks for your consent before first use, and while a voice session is running your speech transcripts, agent context and message drafts are sent to Google's Gemini. Notifications carry a fixed message and never any of your t 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 GitHu certified by any of them.

About

AgentCmd

Features
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AgentCmd is a native remote control for the Qwen Code CLI's server (qwen serve) that runs on your own computer. Start the server in your project, pair your phone by scanning the QR code it prints, and drive your coding agent from anywhere on your network — or over a VPN or tunnel. It speaks the CLI's own protocol, so the phone shows exactly what the desktop does: • Live transcript — prompts, the agent's thinking, streamed replies, and every tool call as it happens, with token counts and timings. • Approvals on the go — approve or reject file edits and shell commands, with the diff or command right there. Choose how much to auto-approve per session. • Full agent toolbox — switch model and reasoning effort, browse and @-reference files, attach photos or files, and reach Plugins, Channels, Scheduled Tasks, Goals and workspaces. • Pick up any conversation — your sessions are listed newest-first; open one and its history is restored. • Notifications — get told the moment a task finishes, fails, or needs your approval, even while the app is in the background. • Yours end to end — the agent runs on your machine and this app talks only to it. No account, no analytics, nothing sent to us. Access tokens live in the device keychain; unencrypted HTTP is allowed only to local/private addresses. Requires the Qwen Code CLI (Node.js 22+) running qwen serve on your computer. Not sure yet? A built-in Demo shows a complete session offline, no server needed. AgentCmd is an independent client. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Alibaba or the Qwen team.

Screenshots

Drover4 screens
AgentCmd4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Drover at every 5 days against AgentCmd's every 10 days. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Drover ships an update every 5 days, AgentCmd every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference Ā· 7 level
Drover versus AgentCmd: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDroverAgentCmd
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 10 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB45 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperKEISUKE NISHITANI子泰 陈

In-app purchases

None

Drover

No in-app purchases

None

AgentCmd

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Drover free?
Drover is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is AgentCmd free?
AgentCmd is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Drover or AgentCmd have ads?
Neither Drover nor AgentCmd shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Drover or AgentCmd?
Drover ships an update every 5 days, and AgentCmd every 10 days. Most recently, Drover was updated on October 10, 2026 and AgentCmd on October 12, 2026.

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