Comparison

Orquesta vs AI Cockpit

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

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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 • Projects — every project in your organization, with its agent's live online status and last heartbeat. • Prompts — 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. • Live logs — open any prompt and follow the agent's timeline as it runs: reasoning, tool calls, tool results and output. • Sessions — 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. • Team chat — the same channels and threads as the dashboard. Mention a teammate, or address the agent by its @handle and it picks the message up. • Activity — one feed across every project, so you can see the whole organization at a glance. • Inbox — billing, team, deployment and system notifications, markable as read. • 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 — 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 — 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.

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AI Cockpit

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Claude, ChatGPT & Codex, Copilot and six more AI services — how much is left, and when it resets. On your iPhone, your iPad and your Apple Watch: the phone fetches everything itself, no Mac required. No browser cookies. No data collection. Your keys stay in this device's keychain and never travel to the watch. Free. No account with the publisher, no server in between. WHAT THE APP SHOWS • Claude subscription: the 5-hour, 7-day and model-scoped weekly windows, each with a percentage and a reset time • ChatGPT/Codex: the quotas of the signed-in account • OpenAI API and Anthropic API: cost today, this month and in total • Kimi: balance • OpenRouter: spend, credit and the key's cap • Grok (xAI): balance and spending cap • DeepSeek: balance per currency • GitHub Copilot: usage and quota — personal paid plans only If one service fails, the rest carry on. (i) buttons explain every term. NO SURPRISES • One sentence at the top says where you stand: "All in the green" or "Claude is getting tight today" • A forecast under every window: "full at 16:40 at this pace" — or that it lasts until the reset • A tip when a window is nearly full and another plan or account still has room • A plan check from your weekly peaks (Claude only, an estimate) • Alerts at your threshold, before a five-hour window fills, when it starts over and when it resets off schedule • A cost alert when API spend jumps or credit drains fast; a monthly budget • A Live Activity with up to four windows on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island • A control for Control Center, the Lock Screen and the Action button YOUR MONEY AND YOUR TIME • Renewal dates: a note days before each plan renews, with the amount • Reset alarm: one bell, one notification when a window is free again • Today's share: "9% left for today so the week lasts" • Quiet hours and "Pause until tomorrow" — cost alerts may come through • Your AI month: on the 1st, a review of what you spent and used, to share as an image • Six shortcuts for Siri and the Shortcuts app Alerts are made on the device when the app fetches — no server. In the background, iOS decides how often. WIDGETS • One service or all, used or remaining • Three sizes for the Home Screen; the large one adds the one-sentence status and today's share • Tap a widget and the app opens that card • Three shapes for the Lock Screen with a live countdown, also in StandBy; in a Smart Stack, AI Cockpit moves up when a window gets tight APPLE WATCH • A verdict first: "Still fine", "Getting tight" or "Window full", and the window behind it • A crown turn away: every source, one line each • Complications in all four shapes The watch shows, it does not fetch: the figures come from the phone. YOUR LOOK Three color schemes — Graphite, Deep Blue, Classic — and a color per card, carried into widgets, watch and Live Activity. Share your status as an image, account names hidden. WHAT YOU NEED For each card the matching plan, API key or account. All optional: without one, only that card stays empty. Demo mode shows the whole app with sample figures. Runs on iOS 17, iPadOS 17 and watchOS 10; the control from iOS 18, on the watch from watchOS 26. WHAT THE APP DOES NOT DO No registration, no analytics, no tracking, no ads. The only in-app purchase is a voluntary tip that unlocks nothing. It never reads your chats; it fetches quotas and amounts, nothing else. Settings and figures stay on the device; every connection uses HTTPS and goes straight to the service you added. DISCLAIMER AI Cockpit is an independent tool, not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic, OpenAI, Moonshot AI, OpenRouter, xAI, DeepSeek or GitHub. Their names appear because their figures do.

Screenshots

Orquesta4 screens
AI Cockpit4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: AI Cockpit at every 2 days against Orquesta's every 2 weeks. 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

Orquesta ships an update every 2 weeks, AI Cockpit every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference Ā· 5 level
Orquesta versus AI Cockpit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOrquestaAI Cockpit
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size56 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEhive S.P.A.Albert Frick

In-app purchases

None

Orquesta

No in-app purchases

None

AI Cockpit

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Orquesta free?
Orquesta is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is AI Cockpit free?
AI Cockpit is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Orquesta or AI Cockpit have ads?
Neither Orquesta nor AI Cockpit shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Orquesta or AI Cockpit?
Orquesta ships an update every 2 weeks, and AI Cockpit every 2 days. Most recently, Orquesta was updated on October 18, 2026 and AI Cockpit on October 14, 2026.

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