Comparison

OperatorOK vs CekTerm

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

Head to head
About

OperatorOK

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Supervise your whole fleet of AI coding agents from anywhere. Operator is the control plane for AI coding agents. They keep building on your Mac, in a secure sandbox, or in the cloud, while you approve the risky moments, watch every command, and stay in control from your iPhone and Apple Watch. THE SHIFT The bottleneck is not typing anymore. It is supervision. Approvals pile up, agents hit context limits, and a run can go sideways while you are away from the keyboard. Operator puts the whole fleet in your pocket, so nothing waits on you and nothing risky runs without your say. WHAT YOU CAN DO Approve from anywhere. When an agent reaches something risky it pauses. Approve or reject with one tap from your phone or your wrist. Watch every command. A clean live timeline streams each action as it happens, across every agent and every Mac you pair. Set policy once. Safe actions approve themselves. Risky ones wait for you. Dangerous ones are blocked. You decide where the line sits. Bring any agent. Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Grok, GLM, Kimi, DeepSeek, OpenCode and more, together in one fleet. Bring your own keys and they stay sealed on your Mac. Choose any model. Pick the model each worker runs on from a browsable catalog, or turn on Auto and let each job route itself to a model that fits. Run it anywhere. Start a worker on your Mac, in an isolated sandbox, on your own server or VPS, or in the cloud. Automate the routine. Put agents on a schedule or a trigger and let the repeat work run without you. Install Solutions in minutes. Ready made jobs for real work: process invoices, review pull requests, write research briefings, produce content and more. Chat with your documents. Build a private knowledge base from your own manuals, contracts, and specs, then ask questions and get answers that cite the page they came from. Connect your stack. Attach the tools your agents need, from auth and databases to the rest of your services. Preview live. See a worker's dev server right on your phone while it builds. Ship from GitHub. Point an agent at a repo, fork it, and spin up the work in one move. Use your voice. Approve without lifting a finger. HOW IT WORKS 1. Get the free Operator app for macOS at operatorok.com. 2. Pair this app by scanning the code shown on your Mac. 3. Start building. You are pinged only when a decision is needed. Operator for iPhone and Apple Watch is a free companion to the Operator app for macOS. The relay is zero knowledge, so your code and commands never leave your Mac. operatorok.com

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CekTerm

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Carry your remote tmux session in your pocket. Close the app; the work keeps running. CekTerm is an SSH terminal for iPhone and iPad. It never owns your work — the real thing is the tmux session on the remote host, and the app is just a client you can throw away and reattach at any time. So switching apps, running out of battery, losing signal underground, even swiping the app out of the multitasking list: that build, training run, deploy or AI agent is still going. Open it again and the screen picks up exactly where you left off. Features • Sessions live in remote tmux Disconnects, app switches and dead batteries do not matter — come back, attach to the same session, and the half-finished work is still there. • Local scrollback, scrolling never hits the network tmux control mode returns a linear output stream, so history is stored on the phone and scrolling back feels like scrolling any other page. • Session names stay on the phone If the remote tmux session is gone, its entry remains in the list — one tap rebuilds it with the same name and settings. • Keys are generated on the device Ed25519 or ECDSA, straight into the Keychain — no copying a private key across machines, which is where keys usually leak. • Input built for a phone A dedicated row for Ctrl/Alt/arrows, frequent commands as reorderable tabs, and floating Enter and clear buttons you can drag anywhere. • An exit key that reads the context It asks the remote what is running first: q for less, Ctrl-D for python, Ctrl-C twice for an agent — and for vim it asks whether to save. • Pick the remote folder and shell Browse the remote directory tree while creating a session; the shell list is read from that host, so you do not have to remember paths. • Upload files over SFTP Send several files at once to any remote folder and leave the page while it transfers. The file only appears at its final path once complete, so an interruption never leaves half a file behind. • Voice input Speak a line, get text, review it before sending — or run it straight away. Long commands are painful to type on a phone. • Six interface languages and multiple themes The interface language is independent of the system setting, and the terminal has six colour schemes of its own. Security • Private keys, passphrases and passwords live in the Keychain, readable only after the device is unlocked, and never leave this device via iCloud Keychain or encrypted backups. • Host keys use TOFU: the key is recorded on first connect and must match exactly every time after; a mismatch aborts the connection and shows both fingerprints. • Biometric lock: protect the app with Face ID or Touch ID and lock it the moment it goes to the background. • Remote clipboard reads are refused: OSC 52 is implemented for writing only and never answers a read query. • Settings export contains no private keys or passwords — those stay in the Keychain. What you need A remote host you are authorised to log into, with tmux installed (Linux or macOS). Please use Ed25519 keys: RSA private keys can no longer authenticate against OpenSSH 8.8 and later. This app does not try to be a full SFTP browser or a port-forwarding tool — a desktop SSH client is better at those. It focuses on one thing: watching a long-running session from a phone.

Screenshots

OperatorOK4 screens
CekTerm4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: OperatorOK at none against CekTerm's shown. CekTerm's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.2). On price, 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.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
OperatorOK versus CekTerm: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOperatorOKCekTerm
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Daily
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.217.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size82 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHarikanth Lingutlaå¼µ 文展

In-app purchases

None

OperatorOK

No in-app purchases

None

CekTerm

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is OperatorOK free?
OperatorOK is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is CekTerm free?
CekTerm is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do OperatorOK or CekTerm have ads?
CekTerm shows ads; OperatorOK does not.

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