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It turns them into something you can supervise from your phone.\n\nIt is not a mobile terminal. Drover speaks the agent's language: it renders a\nrunning session as a readable chat, turns permission prompts into buttons you\ncan tap, and tells you the moment an agent is waiting on you.\n\nNO SERVER IN BETWEEN\nDrover connects straight from your device to your own machine over SSH. There\nis no service in the middle. Your transcripts, your commands and your code go\nto your machine and nowhere else — the developer of this app cannot see them.\n\nWHAT YOU CAN DO\n• See every agent and its status at a glance — waiting for you, working, done\n• Read the session as a chat, with Markdown, syntax-highlighted code and diffs\n• Answer an agent's permission prompt by tapping a button instead of typing\n  into a raw terminal pane\n• Send follow-up instructions, cycle the agent's mode, or dictate by voice\n• Attach a photo from your camera or library for the agent to look at\n• Get a notification the moment an agent is blocked and needs you\n• Switch between several machines, or watch them all in one list\n\nTRY IT WITH NO SETUP\nTap \"Try the demo\" on the first screen. It runs a scripted session entirely on\nyour device, with no host and no connection, so you can see how Drover works\nbefore setting anything up.\n\nWHAT YOU NEED\nDrover is a client for a machine you already own. To use it for real you need a\ncomputer running Herdr (herdr.dev) with your coding agents in it, SSH access to\nthat machine with key-based authentication, and Herdr 0.8.0 or newer.\n\nPRIVACY\nSpeech recognition runs entirely on your device — Drover will not fall back to\na server. Notifications carry a fixed message and never any of your transcript.\nYour SSH key is stored in the iOS Keychain and never leaves your device.\n\nDrover is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or\nsponsored by the Herdr project, Anthropic, OpenAI, or GitHub, and is not\ncertified by any of them.","facts":{"developer_id":6792428014,"developer_url":"https://keinstn.github.io/drover/","first_released":"2026-08-07T07:00:00Z","support_url":"https://keinstn.github.io/drover/support","privacy_url":"https://keinstn.github.io/drover/privacy","website_url":"https://keinstn.github.io/drover/","app_version":"1.1.5","release_notes":"• Removed the experimental voice assistant. 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