Two takes on supervising AI agents from anywhere: a hosted command center, or a cockpit on your own machine.
You want a hosted dashboard to launch and steer agents from anywhere with a polished mobile app, you're comfortable with your agent traffic riding a cloud service, and chat-level steering covers your needs. Omnara (YC-backed) is a strong take on the hosted command-center category.
You want your code and agent traffic to stay on your machine — the DevReins server is self-hosted and the relay only forwards ciphertext — and you want more than chat when things go wrong: terminal, files, git, and desktop, one tap from the notification.
| Feature | DevReins | Omnara |
|---|---|---|
| Agent chat & approvals | ✓ | ✓ |
| Push when an agent needs you | ✓ | ✓ |
| Launch agents from your phone | ✓ | ✓ |
| Terminal on your machine | ✓ | ✗ |
| Files & git on your machine | ✓browse, search, diff, revert | ✗ |
| Where your agent traffic rides | ✓your box + E2EE relay (ciphertext only) | ~their cloud service |
| Self-hosted server | ✓ | ✗ |
| Works offline / LAN-only | ✓QR pairing, no cloud at all | ✗ |
| Price | ✓Free (early access) | ~free tier; paid plans |
Sourced from each product's public documentation as of July 2026. Details change — check their site for the latest. See the full multi-tool comparison for Termius, Tailscale, and more.
Omnara’s pitch is convenience: a hosted command center where your agents report in, with a polished mobile app to launch, steer, and approve from anywhere. For teams that are fine with a cloud intermediary, it’s a clean, well-executed product in the agent-chat category.
DevReins starts from a different premise: the tool that can read your code, terminal, and git history should live on your machine, not someone else’s. The DevReins server is self-hosted; your phone reaches it through a relay your machine dials outbound — no tunnel setup — and every frame is end-to-end encrypted, so the relay only ever forwards ciphertext. On your own network it works with no cloud at all.
The second difference is depth. Chat-layer tools stop at the conversation; DevReins pairs the conversation with the machine surface — a real terminal, file browser with search, git diffs with one-tap revert, dev-server preview, and desktop access — so the fix is one tap away from the notification instead of a walk back to your desk.
Cross-vendor coverage matters too: DevReins natively tracks Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI, and drives any terminal agent through live session panes.
Omnara is primarily a hosted (cloud) service — your agents connect to their platform, and you steer them through their app. DevReins is self-hosted by design: the server runs on your dev machine and the relay only forwards end-to-end-encrypted traffic it can't read.
No — Omnara operates at the agent-chat layer: launching, steering, and approving agents. DevReins adds the machine surface: terminal, file browser, git status/diff/revert, dev-server preview, and desktop.
Yes — an Android app (direct APK during early access) and an installable iPhone web app; a native iOS app ships with the Pro tier. Both give you push notifications and the full cockpit.
DevReins is free during early access with a planned $19/mo Pro tier. Omnara has a free tier with paid plans — check their site for current pricing.
Free during early access — install, log in, pick your machine. Your code never leaves your box.
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