GetHog vs BotBus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GetHog
Access your PostHog data on the go with this open-source client. Inspect dashboards, events, sessions, and feature flags. Offers a native experience with widgets and full accessibility support.
- Browse dashboards and insights
- Inspect events and people
- View sessions and web replay
- Review and change feature flags
- Home and Lock Screen widgets
- Native experience with multitasking
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GetHog is an independent, open-source client for PostHog. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or maintained by PostHog. The PostHog companion for when you are away from your laptop. Check whether the dashboard is moving, what a session actually did, or whether a flag is on. TRY IT WITHOUT AN ACCOUNT Tap "Explore the demo" on the welcome screen. The whole app runs on bundled, hand-written fictional data with no account, no API key, and no network requests. Every screen below is explorable before you connect anything. WHAT IT DOES • Dashboards — browse your saved dashboards and the insights they contain. • Events and people — inspect events with their full property lists, and the people and groups behind them. • Sessions and replay — walk a session timeline and watch web replay in a native, offline player. • Feature flags — review flags and change one only after an explicit confirmation. • The long tail — errors, SQL, web analytics, logs, warehouse, pipelines, experiments, surveys, notebooks, and more. • Widgets — home screen and Lock Screen widgets, plus Control Center controls, backed by a cached snapshot. BUILT FOR A NATIVE EXPERIENCE Real iPad split views and multitasking, App Intents and Shortcuts, Handoff, Dynamic Type through the largest accessibility sizes, and VoiceOver support that is tested rather than assumed. PRIVATE BY ARCHITECTURE GetHog has no backend. There is no telemetry, no analytics, no crash reporting, and no advertising. Your PostHog personal API key is stored in the device Keychain and is sent only to the PostHog host you chose. Nothing passes through anyone else, because there is no one else. Signing out deletes the key and every cache the app has written. Connect to PostHog Cloud US, PostHog Cloud EU, or your own self-hosted deployment. HONEST ABOUT ITS LIMITS GetHog is not a replacement for the PostHog web app, and it does not pretend to be. When it meets an insight type it cannot draw yet, it says so instead of inventing a chart. Rate limits, missing key scopes, and stale caches are explained on screen in plain language. OPEN SOURCE GetHog is MIT licensed and developed in the open at https://github.com/abhitekula/GetHog. Issues and contributions are welcome. You need your own PostHog account and a personal API key to connect to real data.
BotBus
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Your AI coding agents keep working after you leave your desk. With BotBus, so can you: approve requests, answer questions, send the next instruction, or take over the computer itself, from iPhone, iPad or Apple Watch. BotBus connects Claude Code, Codex and other coding agents on your Mac, Linux or Windows computer to your phone and watch. No SSH, no VPN, no port forwarding, no account. Install BotBus on the computer, scan one QR code, and you're set. Tasks and computer controls are end-to-end encrypted. Made for long refactors, test runs and vibe coding sessions that need a quick yes every few minutes. WORKS WITH THE AGENTS YOU ALREADY USE • Built in: Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Hermes, Pi, OpenClaw and DeepSeek Harness • Gemini CLI, Qwen Code, Kimi CLI, goose and other ACP (Agent Client Protocol) agents • Sessions you started at your desk show up too, sorted by computer, agent and project • Agents keep their own logins, subscriptions and API keys NEVER LEAVE AN AGENT WAITING • Get notified when an agent needs approval, waits for your reply, finishes or fails; on iPhone you see the actual command • Approve or deny in one tap and answer multiple-choice questions • Auto-approve projects you trust (Claude Code and Codex); questions still come to you • When a task fails, BotBus tells you why and what to do next RUN THE WORK FROM ANYWHERE • Start a chat: pick a computer, agent and project, then type or just speak • Follow up, interrupt, or start, stop and restart an agent • Choose the model and reasoning effort for Claude Code and Codex • Run a task in its own git worktree, then merge it back in one tap • Attach photos; location data is stripped before sending • Read the conversation with formatting, code and images SEE WHAT YOUR AGENTS BUILT • Screenshots, files, videos and links come straight to your phone • Open the dev server your agent just started and try the page on your phone (Mac) • Review uncommitted changes as a line-by-line diff before you merge CONTROL YOUR COMPUTER • Files: browse projects, view and edit text files, upload photos, share files to your phone, rename, or move to Trash (never permanently deleted) • Terminal: a real shell on your computer, with tabs, extra keys (esc, ctrl, tab, arrows) and sessions that survive dropped connections • Screen: see your Mac live; tap, drag, zoom, right-click and type, with a secure field for passwords • Changes stay locked until you unlock them and re-lock after 10 idle minutes • Files and terminal on Mac, Linux and Windows; screen control on Mac BUILT FOR APPLE WATCH • After syncing from iPhone, the watch connects on its own • Approve, answer, dictate a reply, interrupt or start a task from your wrist • See every computer's pending count at a glance MANY COMPUTERS, MANY DEVICES • Pair up to 10 computers with up to 10 phones and iPads; mix Mac, Linux and Windows • Two-column layout on iPad • Remove any device at any time PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Tasks, chats, commands, files, terminal and screen are encrypted with AES-256-GCM on your devices • The key travels only in the pairing QR code and stays in your Keychain; compare the 8-digit fingerprint to verify • Our relay sees only ciphertext; pairings idle for 30 days are erased • Dev previews pass through our relay and are not end-to-end encrypted GET STARTED IN A MINUTE 1. Install BotBus on your computer from botbus.io: a menu bar app on Mac, a one-line install on Linux and Windows (no sudo or admin rights) 2. Scan the pairing QR code with this app 3. Walk away. Your agents will find you. No computer at hand? Try demo mode first. Requires iOS or iPadOS 26 and watchOS 26 or later; macOS 26, Linux (x86_64, aarch64) or Windows 10/11 on the computer. Actions need the computer online with BotBus running; available controls depend on the agent. Claude Code, Codex and other agent names are trademarks of their respective owners. BotBus is independent and not affiliated with them.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: BotBus at every 3 days against GetHog's every 2 weeks. GetHog's advantage is device support (5 vs 3). On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
GetHog ships an update every 2 weeks, BotBus every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GetHog | BotBus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Automorphism, LLC | Chengdu Tuyang Tusen Technology Co., Ltd |
In-app purchases
GetHog
No in-app purchases
BotBus
No in-app purchases









