Phone app

Pair your phone

Install OpenOrc on your iPhone from the App Store. Then pair it with OpenOrc on your computer:

1. On your computer, open Settings → Phone and turn on Allow paired phones.
2. Click Pair a phone. A pairing code appears, and expires after five minutes.
3. On the phone, open OpenOrc, tap Scan code, and point the camera at the code.

If you can't scan, click Copy link under the code on your computer, then tap Paste on the phone. With Universal Clipboard, the link reaches the phone without you sending it. To look around before you pair, tap Try the demo, which shows the app with a made-up computer.

Settings → Phone lists your paired phones under Paired phones, each with when it last connected.

How the phone reaches your computer

The phone connects to your computer directly, in one of two ways:

• On the same network, such as your home or office Wi-Fi.
• Over Tailscale, when both are on your tailnet. This works from anywhere your phone has internet.

Each connection is encrypted end to end with keys made on the phone and the computer, so your router, Tailscale, and anyone else on the network can't read or change it. Your computer accepts only the phones paired with it, and only from local and Tailscale addresses. The addresses it offers are under Addresses in Settings → Phone.

What you can do from the phone

• See your threads as they change, with what each agent is doing and what needs you.
• Open a thread and read the agent's work and reply as they stream in, including its steps, images, and visualizations.
• Send a message, say something during the turn, queue a message, or stop the turn. Answer questions and approvals on their cards.
• Start a thread in any project, with the agent and model you choose and, for Claude, the account. It works where new threads on your computer do, as set by New thread workspace in Settings → General, or choose Cloud for a sandbox of its own. Attach photos from the camera or your library.
• Choose Move to Cloud in a thread's menu to send it to the cloud, and Bring to Mac to bring a thread back from the cloud brain. See Cloud threads.
• Pin, snooze, rename, mark as read or unread, and resolve threads, from a thread's menu or by swiping its row.
• Under Changes in a thread's menu, read the diff, commit, push, and open a pull request on GitHub.
• Under Preview, watch the page the thread's Preview shows on your computer, and scroll, tap, and type into it.

The model sheet has an icon tab for each enabled agent. The selected agent's name appears above the tabs. Tabs and search stay visible while you scroll models. Agents with large catalogs start with suggested models and provider groups; search covers the whole selected agent's catalog.

To delete or fork a thread, or move it between the checkout and a worktree, use your computer. The phone's Settings shows your usage, without account details, and lets you pair another computer.

Reach the cloud brain

The cloud brain is a copy of OpenOrc on your own Vercel or Agent37 account. Pair your phone with it too, and you can follow and start cloud threads while your computer sleeps or is off.

1. On your computer, open Settings → Cloud, and under Cloud brain click Pair phone.
2. On the phone, scan the code as you would for your computer.

The phone reaches the brain over the internet, at its address on Vercel or Agent37, encrypted end to end like the link to your computer. Only phones paired with the brain can connect. Opening the app wakes a sleeping brain, on Vercel through its door, a small function in your Vercel team. The phone says Waking meanwhile.

• Home lists the threads on your computer and on the brain together, and marks cloud threads Cloud. While your computer sleeps, its threads stay listed from its last answer, dimmed and marked Mac asleep.
• A new thread you start in the cloud starts on the brain.
• If the brain holds your Apple push key, it sends notifications too, sealed the same way as your computer's.

Phones paired with the brain are listed under it in Settings → Cloud, each with Remove.

Remove a phone

To stop a phone from connecting, click Remove beside it in Settings → Phone. Your computer deletes its record of the phone, and the key the phone holds stops working. Turning off Allow paired phones stops every phone from connecting and keeps their pairing for later.

On the phone, removing a computer in Settings deletes the phone's key for it and the threads and images it kept. The privacy policy lists what the phone keeps and every connection it makes.

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