Sesori vs Orca
TL;DR
Choose Orca for a desktop worktree IDE, broad CLI-agent support, built-in terminal and browser, or MIT licensing. Choose Sesori if the phone is primary and its seven named integrations fit. Compare the published connection models against your requirements.
Orca and Sesori let a phone steer agents on a development machine, but their primary surfaces differ. Orca is a free, MIT-licensed desktop Agent Development Environment with isolated worktrees, terminals, an editor, a browser, Git tooling, and a mobile companion. Sesori is a mobile cockpit for seven maintained harnesses through a lightweight Bridge.
Reviewed August 25, 2026. Details change; check the first-party sources below before deciding.
Side by side
| Feature | Sesori | Orca |
|---|---|---|
| Primary product | Native mobile cockpit for sessions on a separate development host. | Desktop Agent Development Environment with a companion mobile remote control. |
| Agent coverage | Seven maintained integrations: OpenCode, Codex, Cursor, Claude Code, Pi, OMP, and Hermes. | Can launch any CLI agent; preconfigured picker has deeper hooks for selected agents. |
| Desktop workflow | Lightweight Bridge CLI; keep your existing desktop harness workflow. | Parallel isolated worktrees, terminals, editor, browser, task views, and Git tracking. |
| Mobile workflow | Projects, sessions, prompts, available permission requests, diffs, voice, queues, notifications, and multi-session control. | Status, terminal/chat replies, file tree, commands, browser views, source-control staging, commits, and notifications. |
| Host requirement | The Bridge host must remain powered on and online. | The paired Orca desktop or remote server is the source of truth and must stay reachable. |
| Remote access | Managed account-paired E2E relay; ordinary session payloads use X25519 and XChaCha20-Poly1305. | Orca Relay with account sign-in, or LAN, Tailscale, WireGuard, SSH forwarding, and authenticated paths. |
| Published relay guarantee | Documents that the relay cannot decrypt ordinary session payloads and publishes the cipher boundary. | Public mobile and remote-server docs describe pairing and authorization, not an E2E relay cipher protocol. |
| Permission defaults | Surfaces available harness permission requests in mobile workflow when the selected harness exposes them. | Pre-fills supported agents’ approval-bypass flags; users can switch uncustomized agents to Manual mode. |
| License and price | Free; Bridge source is available under FSL-1.1-ALv2. | Free and open source under the MIT License; enterprise services are offered separately. |
Which is right for you?
Pick Sesori if you
- You want the phone as the primary surface, not a desktop-IDE companion.
- Seven maintained integrations cover your stack and a smaller matrix suits you.
- You require a documented E2E relay protocol and readable-feature boundary.
- You want to add only a lightweight Bridge to your desktop workflow.
Pick Orca if you
- You want isolated worktrees, terminals, editor, browser, and Git controls in one desktop app.
- You need to launch a CLI agent outside Sesori’s seven supported harnesses.
- You prefer a permissive MIT-licensed codebase that you can fork and redistribute.
- You want mobile management of Orca worktrees and source control from the desktop ADE.