Comparison

Orchestrator.Inc vs Grenade

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

Head to head
About

Orchestrator.Inc

This mobile app allows you to supervise your coding agents remotely. See agent activity, respond to blocked tasks, and keep projects moving from your phone. It requires the desktop application to function.

Highlights
  • Live Kanban board for worker sessions
  • Push notifications for agent stops
  • Chat with agents and view history
  • Follow pull request status
  • Interact with project planning agent
  • Attach to live session terminals
  • Preview running work in browser
Features
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Orchestrator is the companion app for Orchestrator, the desktop workspace for agent-driven development. Your agents keep working while you step away from your desk. AO Mobile keeps you in the loop see what every worker is doing, answer the ones that are blocked, and keep work moving from your phone. REQUIRES THE Orchestrator DESKTOP APP AO Mobile is a thin client. It connects directly to Agent Orchestrator running on your own computer, over your local network or your Tailscale network. There is no cloud service and no account to create. Your code, conversations, and repositories never leave your machine. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Live Kanban — every worker session on one board, grouped by what needs your attention: working, needs you, in review, ready to merge. • Get notified when an agent stops — a push notification arrives the moment a session needs your input, and tapping it opens that exact conversation. • Chat with any agent — full conversation history, streaming responses, approvals, model and provider switching, file attachments, and voice input for when typing is impractical. • Follow pull requests — open and draft PRs with their checks, CI status, and review state. • Talk to the orchestrator — your project-level planning agent, for thinking through direction and delegating new work. • Drop into the terminal — attach to a session's live terminal when you need the raw view. • Preview running work — open a worker's browser preview to see what it built. BUILT FOR TRUST The desktop's connection to your phone is opt-in and off by default. When you enable it, AO opens a separate local listener protected by a rotating password, and pairing happens by scanning a QR code shown on your desktop. Turning it off closes the connection immediately. GETTING STARTED 1. Install Agent Orchestrator on your Mac, Windows, or Linux machine. 2. Turn on Connect Mobile in the desktop app. 3. Scan the pairing QR code with this app. Agent Orchestrator is open source. Learn more at aoagents.dev.

About

Grenade

Features
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Grenade is a remote for the AI coding agents running on your Mac or Linux computer. Claude Code, Codex or a plain shell run in terminals on that computer; your iPhone shows every one of them with a live status, and lets you read, answer and type from wherever you are. • See at a glance which agent needs an answer, which has finished and which is still working. • Approve a command, answer a question or accept a plan with one tap. The card shows the full command first. • Read the terminal live, or the plain activity view of what the agent said. • Type, paste an image, or hold the mic and talk. • Talk: ask out loud what needs you and hear the answer. Grenade knows your sessions and passes on what you say. It runs on OpenAI or Google Gemini with your own API key, kept on your computer. • Start new sessions in any folder, and group them like tabs. Private by design. On your Wi-Fi the phone talks straight to your computer; anywhere else it goes through a relay that forwards only end-to-end encrypted bytes. No account, no tracking, nothing collected. Needs the free Grenade software on your Mac or Linux computer: brew install holdgrenade/tap/grenade, then grenade setup (Linux: holdgrenade.com/install). No computer handy? Tap "Try a demo" on the first screen.

Screenshots

Orchestrator.Inc4 screens
Grenade4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Grenade at every 4 days against Orchestrator.Inc's every 2 weeks. Orchestrator.Inc's advantage is chart position (#165 vs unranked). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Orchestrator.Inc ships an update every 2 weeks, Grenade every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Orchestrator.Inc versus Grenade: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOrchestrator.IncGrenade
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
Best chart rank#165 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size55 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPrateek KarnalCroissant, Inc.

In-app purchases

None

Orchestrator.Inc

No in-app purchases

None

Grenade

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Orchestrator.Inc free?
Orchestrator.Inc is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Grenade free?
Grenade is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Orchestrator.Inc or Grenade have ads?
Neither Orchestrator.Inc nor Grenade shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Orchestrator.Inc or Grenade?
Orchestrator.Inc ships an update every 2 weeks, and Grenade every 4 days. Most recently, Orchestrator.Inc was updated on October 31, 2026 and Grenade on October 29, 2026.

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