Orca Mobile is the companion app for Orca, the open-source agentic coding workspace for macOS, Linux, and Windows. Pair your iPhone to your desktop in seconds and pick up a terminal session from the couch, the kitchen, or across the office.
WHAT IT DOES
• Live mirror of your desktop terminal, including running AI agent sessions (Claude Code, Codex, custom CLIs).
• Full keyboard input — type, tab-complete, Ctrl-C, scroll back, all from the phone.
• Multi-worktree, multi-terminal: jump between projects with a tap.
• Phone-fit zoom and a smart on-screen keyboard with quick Ctrl/Alt accessory keys and shortcuts.
• Background long-running commands and get a notification when a TUI goes idle (e.g. when Claude finishes thinking).
HOW IT WORKS
Orca Mobile is a thin client. Nothing runs on your phone except the viewer. Your code, your shells, your AI agents — all of that stays on your desktop. The phone shows you what's happening and forwards your keystrokes back over an encrypted local-network connection.
Pairing is end-to-end encrypted. Your desktop generates a one-time keypair and shows a QR code; you scan it from the app. After that, all traffic between phone and desktop is sealed with that pair's keys.
PRIVACY
• No analytics SDK, no crash reporter, no third-party SDKs of any kind in the iOS app.
• Pairing tokens and your preference list live in the app's own sandbox. The app's traffic to your desktop is end-to-end encrypted on your local network only.
• The Orca desktop app collects anonymized usage metrics per the policy at https://www.onorca.dev/privacy. The mobile app itself does not.
• Open source: every line is auditable at https://github.com/stablyai/orca.
REQUIREMENTS
• An iPhone (iOS 16+) on the same Wi-Fi as your desktop.
• The Orca desktop app, free, from https://www.onorca.dev/ or https://github.com/stablyai/orca/releases.
This is literally the best remote access tool to control and maintain AI agents. Auto reconnects, fast and easy setup, no crashes, voice models - this app is the best app to choose from, for managing your agents. Especially the remote browser feature, and ease of use in multiple tabs - favorite ones
No Way to Close Terminal Windows on iPad
fre1999
This app works well overall, but there is a major missing feature on iPad: you cannot close a terminal window. Once a terminal session is open, there is no close button, and no option in the menu to dismiss it. This makes it difficult to manage multiple sessions and leaves the interface cluttered. Please add the ability to close terminal windows or tabs on iPad, just like on desktop. Until then, the iPad experience feels incomplete.
Answer and Reasoning display
very good UX
Pretty good client. However, the current version has both the agent answer and reasoning processes displayed, seems the collapse doesn’t take effort, but you click collapse it reveal the same thought processes in a popup with raw JSON in red. Also everything is displayed above the user’s request, both the actual answer and the reasoning text.
Really good
jmfiola
Compared to herdr-remote this is amazingly smooth and has an insane amount of features.
The developer, Lovecast LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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Information
Seller
Lovecast LLC
Size
43.1 MB
Category
Developer Tools
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.1 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
