Comparison

AGenUI Playground vs Shahi

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

Head to head
About

AGenUI Playground

Features
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AGenUI Playground is a developer tool for exploring A2UI-powered native interfaces on iPhone. Browse bundled examples, inspect rendered components, and edit declarative JSON payloads to see changes in real time. You can also scan an AGenUI QR code that you choose to open or load JSON from your own development server. Highlights: - Native A2UI component rendering - Built-in examples for offline exploration - JSON editing and immediate preview - QR import for developer-controlled payloads - Light and dark interface testing AGenUI Playground interprets declarative UI data. It does not download or execute plug-ins, native libraries, or executable code. No account is required.

About

Shahi

Features
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Your coding agents shouldn't stop just because you left your desk. Shahi turns the AI coding agents running on your own computer into a conversation on your phone. Read what they're doing like a chat, answer their questions with one tap, and start new work from anywhere, while your computer keeps going. WHAT YOU CAN DO • See every agent at a glance: which ones are working, which are done, and which are waiting on you. • Answer permission prompts and questions in one tap. Before anything is pressed, the answer is checked against the agent's live screen. • Read conversations as clean messages, including tool activity, instead of a terminal squeezed onto a small screen. • Reply, attach photos and files, and keep the conversation going. • Start a new agent in any project, with the permission mode you choose. • Open the real terminal whenever you need it. • Preview files and PDFs from your computer. WORKS WITH YOUR SETUP Shahi connects to herdr, the open-source terminal workspace for coding agents, on your own Mac or Linux computer. It works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and the other agents herdr runs. Setup takes two commands and one QR scan. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • End-to-end encrypted. The relay that connects your phone to your computer can't read your conversations. • Prefer no third party at all? Connect over your own SSH instead. • Your code and conversations stay on your computer. There's no account to create. • Open source, under the MIT license. WHAT YOU NEED A Mac or Linux computer running herdr with the free Shahi plugin. Get started at getshahi.dev.

Screenshots

AGenUI Playground4 screens
Shahi4 screens

Verdict

The call

AGenUI Playground and Shahi are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
AGenUI Playground versus Shahi: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAGenUI PlaygroundShahi
PriceFreeFree
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB51 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerꙓ 郭Yasser Aldosari

In-app purchases

None

AGenUI Playground

No in-app purchases

None

Shahi

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is AGenUI Playground free?
AGenUI Playground is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Shahi free?
Shahi is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do AGenUI Playground or Shahi have ads?
Neither AGenUI Playground nor Shahi shows ads.

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