Orquesta vs BentoTerm
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Orquesta
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Orquesta is the companion app for the Orquesta platform. It puts the projects you already run from getorquesta.com in your pocket, so you can see what your coding agents are doing without opening a laptop. WHAT YOU CAN DO โข Projects โ every project in your organization, with its agent's live online status and last heartbeat. โข Prompts โ the full history of what has been asked of each agent, with status, model, cost and the git branch and commit the work landed on. Queue a new one from the project screen. โข Live logs โ open any prompt and follow the agent's timeline as it runs: reasoning, tool calls, tool results and output. โข Sessions โ attach to an agent's interactive session and drive it from the phone: a live terminal with a key bar for esc, tab, arrows and ^C, so you can answer a prompt that is blocking the work instead of finding it stalled hours later. โข Team chat โ the same channels and threads as the dashboard. Mention a teammate, or address the agent by its @handle and it picks the message up. โข Activity โ one feed across every project, so you can see the whole organization at a glance. โข Inbox โ billing, team, deployment and system notifications, markable as read. โข Star and tag prompts to keep the ones worth coming back to. SIGNING IN This app is for people who already use Orquesta. It needs an existing Orquesta organization โ you cannot create an account from the app. Signing in opens getorquesta.com in your browser to authorize the device, and the resulting token is stored in the device's own secure credential store. You can revoke it at any time from Settings, which deletes the local copy and invalidates it on the server. Other devices keep working. Settings also links to account deletion, which permanently closes your Orquesta account and the data it owns. GOOD TO KNOW Agents run on your own machines, not on your phone. A prompt you queue is picked up by the agent on its next heartbeat, then runs for as long as the work takes โ this is asynchronous by design, not a live chat with a model. If a machine is offline, the work waits for it to come back. Interactive sessions are the exception: those are live, and they show what happens from the moment you attach rather than what already scrolled past. The app reads your organization's data and can queue prompts, star and tag them, post to team chat, and mark notifications read. It does not have broad write access to your projects.
BentoTerm
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Your agents run for forty minutes at a time. Watching one is a waste of you โ so you run several, and the problem becomes keeping track of them all. Bento Term is a terminal built for exactly that. A WHOLE TEAM, ONE SCREEN Every agent gets a pane, tinted by what it's doing: blue is working, amber is waiting for you, green is done and you haven't looked yet. You read the room instead of visiting each one. Parallel mode tiles everything; Focus mode gives one pane the whole screen with the rest in a sidebar. SAY IT, DON'T TYPE IT Hold on a pane and talk. Speaking is about three times faster than typing, and Bento reads the screen, so file names and technical words come out right โ mixed Chinese/English included. Slide up to send, down to cancel. LEAVE THE DESK, NOT THE WORK Everything runs in tmux on your machine โ your Mac, a Linux server, or WSL โ over plain SSH, with nothing installed on the other end. Quit the app, close the laptop: nothing stops. Attach from iPhone or iPad mid-run and answer from wherever you are. EVERY DAY - The file tree of every pane's working directory. Tap a printed path and it opens with syntax highlighting, even at :42. PDFs and images too. - Panes move like windows: split, drag, drop โ every move is a real tmux move. - Pick a folder, pick an agent, and Bento opens the panes and starts them. No shell needed. - Ten agents recognized out of the box โ Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI and more โ every profile editable, so a tool nobody has heard of yet is one profile away. BUILT LIKE A TERMINAL Native Swift, the same GPU renderer as Ghostty (libghostty), real tmux control mode (-CC). No accounts. Your terminal output never leaves your machines. Free and open source, Apache-2.0. Requires a machine you can ssh into with tmux installed. macOS, Linux and WSL all work.
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Verdict
Orquesta and BentoTerm are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them โ neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Orquesta | BentoTerm |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | โ |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 โ better | 17.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ehive S.P.A. | Chi On Ho |
In-app purchases
Orquesta
No in-app purchases
BentoTerm
No in-app purchases







