Orca IDE
Lovecast LLC Developer Tools iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Orca IDE is a free Developer Tools app for iPhone and iPad by Lovecast LLC. Rated 4.7/5 from 58 ratings. Requires iOS 15.1. Updated October 26, 2026.
- Rating
- 4.7
- 58 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 43 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 26
- 2026 · v0.0.59
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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.
Ratings & reviews
4.7
58 ratings
What’s new
Version 0.0.59 · Updated October 26, 2026
Improved workspace loading speed
App privacy
The developer, Lovecast LLC, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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