Orca IDE Downloads & RevenueOrca IDE · App Store
Orca IDE is #6 in Developer Tools Free in Japan and charting in 16 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperLovecast LLC
CategoryDeveloper Tools
PriceFree
Released
Rating★ 4.7 (71)
Version0.0.63
Age rating4+
First seen by us
24 Sep 2026
24 Sep 2026Installs (est.)10k+ worldwide
📈Entered the top 10📦Updated to version 0.0.63📦Updated to version 0.0.62✏️Added hidden keywords: codage✏️Added hidden keywords: ssh, agent🔎Top 10 for “terminal”⭐Passed 100 ratings🆕First spotted by AppInsider🆕Released on the App Store
Full timeline · 39 events
- 📈Orca IDE entered the top 10Top Free · Developer Tools · DE
- 📦Orca IDE updated to version 0.0.63• New Home with tabs: Feed, Usage, Automations and Settings
• Turn automations on or off from the Automations tab
• Desktops show what kind of machine they are
• Edit a desktop from its own screen
• Long sheets scroll on smaller phones
• Bug fixes… more - 📦Orca IDE updated to version 0.0.62Orca Mobile 0.0.62 brings a refreshed design, inline code reviews, and automations you can manage from your phone.
- A redesigned Home puts work that needs your attention first, with dedicated sections for Tasks and Automations.
- Updated navigation, sheets, pickers, and text fields make the app more consistent, with clearer press feedback and support for Reduce Motion.
- Review code directly in diffs. Read, reply to, and resolve GitHub review threads, comment on individual lines or ranges, and sync viewed files with GitHub.
- A rebuilt pull request tab keeps checks up to date, highlights what blocks a merge, and lets you ask your agent to fix bot findings.
- Browse your branch’s commits, open each commit’s changed files, and move between files in the diff viewer.
- Create, edit, pause, and run automations, then browse their history and saved output.
- Preview SVG files and pinch to zoom images and Mermaid diagrams. Chat now displays screenshots agents read and images included in their replies.
- Faster workspace loading and lighter data transfers, plus fixes for Android scrolling, autocorrect and split screen, iPhone photo attachments, and iOS HTML previews.… more - ✏️Orca IDE added hidden keywords: codagewords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📦Orca IDE updated to version 0.0.61• Orca now speaks your language: German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, and Simplified and Traditional Chinese.
• Dictation: see your words as you speak, inserted at the cursor. A voice meter, timer and haptics show when you're recording. Tap-mode dictation stops after a minute of silence, and audio lost to a dropped connection is sent again.
• Resolve merge conflicts and finish merges from your phone.
• Chat: code, tables, quotes and diagrams are easier to read. Images stored on your desktop now show up in chat. Messages between agents, and workers started by a coordinator, appear as cards.
• Agent questions are answered in one card, and long ones stay reachable.
• Text inputs now match the chat composer, the composer grows with your draft, and the terminal key dock was rebuilt.
• Long pastes stay whole in the terminal and chat. Typed terminal input returns to the prompt.
• Fixes for iOS hardware keys and Shift+Enter, lost sends and focus, task checkboxes, rich Markdown edits, review notes, and dead connections, which are now detected within seconds.
• Plus general speed and stability improvements.… more - ✏️Orca IDE added hidden keywords: ssh, agentwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- ✏️Orca IDE added 10 languages+ DE + ES + FR + JA + KO + PT + RU + TR + ZH + ZH
- ✏️Orca IDE: app got bigger41 MB → 46 MB (+12%)
- 📦Orca IDE updated to version 0.0.60• Light and dark themes that match Orca on your desktop.
• A Language setting under Appearance. More of the app will be translated in coming updates.
• Edit a queued message in place with the full composer, and drag queued messages to reorder them.
• A copy button on shell commands in chat.
• Support for iPhone Duo, folded and unfolded.
• Dictation keeps what you said through calls, reconnects and failed inserts, explains setup before asking for the microphone, and hands your audio back when it stops.
• Smoother typing and scrolling in long chats.
• Terminal links and file paths open the same way they do on desktop, and the terminal keeps your place when it resizes.
• Source control compares branches and shows diffs with your desktop's settings.
• Pairing shows its progress and errors even without camera access, and handles invalid links.
• Fixes for Korean 10-key input and for resuming a session from Agent Session History.… more - ✏️Orca IDE added hidden keywords: codingwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📦Orca IDE updated to version 0.0.59Improved workspace loading speed
- ✏️Orca IDE added hidden keywords: termix, programmingwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- ✏️Orca IDE added hidden keywords: sshwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📦Orca IDE updated to version 0.0.58Improved multi-host handling
- ✏️Orca IDE added hidden keywords: tmuxwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- ✏️Orca IDE added hidden keywords: coding, agentswords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📦Orca IDE updated to version 0.0.57Improved performance for slow connections
- ✏️Orca IDE added hidden keywords: sshwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📦Orca IDE updated to version 0.0.56Bug fixes for older iOS versions
- ✏️Orca IDE added hidden keywords: terminalwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- ✏️Orca IDE added hidden keywords: tmux, github, gitlab, sshwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📦Orca IDE: now updating weekly4 updates in 30 days, after a quiet two months
- 📦Orca IDE updated to version 0.0.54- Improved workspace downloading
- Misc. improvements - 📦Orca IDE updated to version 0.0.53Steadier agent chat
• A message that fails to send shows "Not sent", and its text goes back into your draft.
• A reply cut off because Orca quit or crashed now shows as finished, with a short explanation.
• Chat history is never lost when a chat can't be loaded; the app says why instead.
• /context works in chat for OpenClaude and OMP.
• OpenCode sessions open in chat, including the agent's reasoning.
• Long prompts reach the agent once it's ready, instead of being cut off at launch.
• Clearer wording for chat errors and status.
• Improved agent support
Workspaces
• The workspace list follows the desktop's pinned-workspace setting.
• Simpler dialogs for controlling a terminal from the phone and for fitting it to the phone's size.
Fixes
• The working indicator keeps spinning on every screen.
• Lower memory use during long sessions.… more - ✏️Orca IDE added hidden keywords: githubwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- ✏️Orca IDE added hidden keywords: ssh, githubwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- ✏️Orca IDE added hidden keywords: githubwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- ✏️Orca IDE added hidden keywords: tmuxwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 🔎Orca IDE reached Top 10 for “terminal”#8 in Indonesia search · popularity 52
- ✏️Orca IDE added hidden keywords: websshwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- ✏️Orca IDE added hidden keywords: tmuxwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- ✏️Orca IDE added hidden keywords: sshwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📦Orca IDE updated to version 0.0.52Clearer desktop status
• Each paired desktop shows the name the desktop reports, with its operating system underneath.
• A desktop that is asleep, closed, or signed out now says what is wrong instead of staying on "Connecting via Relay…".
Steadier agent chat
• The "Working for" bar shows while the agent is still working, not only after it finishes.
• Long typed answers to an agent's question now reach the agent.
• "Fix checks with AI", "Resolve conflicts with AI", and similar buttons now start an agent with your prompt.
Fixes
• Sending review notes no longer freezes the review screen.
• A terminal opens at the phone's size instead of flashing the desktop's size first.
• A streamed browser tab resumes when you return to the app.
• Voice dictation explains why it could not start.… more - ✏️Orca IDE added hidden keywords: tmux, ssh, codingwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- ✏️Orca IDE added hidden keywords: puttywords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 🆕Orca IDE first spotted by AppInsider#30 in Top Free · Developer Tools · Germany
- 📦Orca IDE version 0.0.51No release notes
- 🆕Orca IDE released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Rating
4.7 ★
71 ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#6
Developer Tools FreeMeasured
New ratings a week
43
▲ +32% vs the 2 weeks before
Measured
Orca IDE at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-11-07. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
Orca IDE is a free, open-source companion app that enables developers to remotely mirror and control desktop terminal sessions, including AI agent workflows, from their iPhone via encrypted local network connections. The app has rapidly secured top-20 positions in the Developer Tools Free charts across major markets like South Korea, Germany, Japan, and the US within weeks of its May 2026 release, indicating strong initial traction among mobile-first or remote-working developers.
Similar apps: Termius, Blink Shell, Code Server
Orca IDE on the App Store
App details
App ID
6766130217
Publisher
Lovecast LLC
On the store since
May 2026
Under a year
Minimum OS
iOS 15.1+
iPhone 6s and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase
Content rating
4+
Languages
11
EN FR DE JA KO PT RU ZH ES ZH TR
Size
50 MB
App privacy Measured
Orca IDE declares it collects no data at all — the rarest and most private label on the App Store.
Declared label
Data Not Collected
As declared by the developer on the App Store — Apple requires every app to publish this label. We track changes over time.
Orca IDE downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Apple publishes no download counts. App Store downloads come from chart positions and daily rating growth per country, calibrated on Google Play install counts; lifetime installs from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where Orca IDE's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
Retention · share of new users still active
Day 1
Day 7
Day 30
Time spent · per daily user
Average time spent Pro
min a day
Sessions a day Pro
Time per session Pro
min
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Hidden keywords
Orca IDE shows up in App Store search (US) for 2 words that appear nowhere in its name, subtitle or developer name, so they are almost certainly in its private keyword field, and it ranks in the top 10 for at least one of them.
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Japan | Developer ToolsFree | #6 |
 South Korea | Developer ToolsFree | #3 |
| Germany | Developer ToolsFree | #5 |
 United States | Developer ToolsFree | #16 |
 China | Developer ToolsFree | #22 |
 United Kingdom | Developer ToolsFree | #20 |
 Brazil | Developer ToolsFree | #13 |
 France | Developer ToolsFree | #17 |
 Canada | Developer ToolsFree | #14 |
 Australia | Developer ToolsFree | #15 |
 Indonesia | Developer ToolsFree | #13 |
 India | Developer ToolsFree | #26 |
 Italy | Developer ToolsFree | #24 |
 Russia | Developer ToolsFree | #44 |
 United Arab Emirates | Developer ToolsFree | #24 |
 Saudi Arabia | Developer ToolsFree | #61 |
Apps near Orca IDE on the chart
Developer Tools Free, around #6.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
4.7 ★
71 ratings
Measured
Ratings
71
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
43
▲ +32% vs the 2 weeks before
Written reviews a week
2.5
US App Store
Recent ratings
4.7★
vs 4.8★ lifetime
Recent written reviews
4.0★
people who write skew negative
Review momentum
89/100
faster than 98% of Developer Tools apps
Growing fastest in South Korea ▲ +267% · Brazil ▲ +200% · United States ▲ +60%
New ratings by country (12)
| Country | New ratings a week | Share | Last 2 weeks vs the 2 before |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 9.2 | 23% | ▲ +60% |
| Brazil | 4.5 | 11% | ▲ +200% |
| China | 3.8 | 9% | ▼ -11% |
| Germany | 3.2 | 8% | ▼ -12% |
| Japan | 3.2 | 8% | ▼ -75% |
| France | 3 | 7% | ▼ -44% |
| South Korea | 3 | 7% | ▲ +267% |
| Australia | 2.2 | 5% | ▲ +20% |
| United Kingdom | 2.2 | 5% | ▼ -17% |
| India | 2.2 | 5% | ▲ ×4.5 |
| Canada | 1.8 | 4% | – |
| Italy | 1.8 | 4% | – |
App Store ratings in the countries we track, 4-week average.
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about Orca IDE
From the 20 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users highly value the app's core functionality for managing AI coding agents remotely, praising its seamless integration and intuitive interface. However, significant frustration exists regarding iPad usability issues, missing iPhone Duo support, and recent bugs affecting stability.
Mostly positive (75% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for its features and content, and working reliably.
What people like
- Features & content: “I have used a lot of tools to help with my AI engineering”
- Crashes & bugs: “But it does have some bugs and usability which point glaringly to it being a less refined and newer feeling app”
- Updates: “Unfortunately, there’s no updates yet to add support for the iPhone duo, please make it happen!”
- Speed & performance: “Compared to herdr-remote this is amazingly smooth and has an insane amount of features”
About Orca IDE
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.
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.
Latest updates
0.0.63
• New Home with tabs: Feed, Usage, Automations and Settings
• Turn automations on or off from the Automations tab
• Desktops show what kind of machine they are
• Edit a desktop from its own screen
• Long sheets scroll on smaller phones
• Bug fixes
0.0.62
Orca Mobile 0.0.62 brings a refreshed design, inline code reviews, and automations you can manage from your phone.
- A redesigned Home puts work that needs your attention first, with dedicated sections for Tasks and Automations.
- Updated navigation, sheets, pickers, and text fields make the app more consistent, with clearer press feedback and support for Reduce Motion.
- Review code directly in diffs. Read, reply to, and resolve GitHub review threads, comment on individual lines or ranges, and sync viewed files with GitHub.
- A rebuilt pull request tab keeps checks up to date, highlights what blocks a merge, and lets you ask your agent to fix bot findings.
- Browse your branch’s commits, open each commit’s changed files, and move between files in the diff viewer.
- Create, edit, pause, and run automations, then browse their history and saved output.
- Preview SVG files and pinch to zoom images and Mermaid diagrams. Chat now displays screenshots agents read and images included in their replies.
- Faster workspace loading and lighter data transfers, plus fixes for Android scrolling, autocorrect and split screen, iPhone photo attachments, and iOS HTML previews.
0.0.61
• Orca now speaks your language: German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, and Simplified and Traditional Chinese.
• Dictation: see your words as you speak, inserted at the cursor. A voice meter, timer and haptics show when you're recording. Tap-mode dictation stops after a minute of silence, and audio lost to a dropped connection is sent again.
• Resolve merge conflicts and finish merges from your phone.
• Chat: code, tables, quotes and diagrams are easier to read. Images stored on your desktop now show up in chat. Messages between agents, and workers started by a coordinator, appear as cards.
• Agent questions are answered in one card, and long ones stay reachable.
• Text inputs now match the chat composer, the composer grows with your draft, and the terminal key dock was rebuilt.
• Long pastes stay whole in the terminal and chat. Typed terminal input returns to the prompt.
• Fixes for iOS hardware keys and Shift+Enter, lost sends and focus, task checkboxes, rich Markdown edits, review notes, and dead connections, which are now detected within seconds.
• Plus general speed and stability improvements.
Store changes
What Orca IDE changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
Added 10 languages
+ DE + ES + FR + JA + KO + PT + RU + TR + ZH + ZH
App got bigger
41 MB → 46 MB (+12%)
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