Heard vs Orbi

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Heard compared with Orbi
Detail	Heard	Orbi
What it does	The voice layer for coding agents	File an Issue. Get a release.
Stage	Not given	Not given
Founded	Not given	Not given
Based in	US	Not given
Pricing model	Freemium	Not given
Pricing	Free: $0/month (open source with local voices). Pro: $12/month or $144/year (managed voices and spoken recaps). Power: $24/month or $288/year (adds voice input and iPhone companion). Every download includes a free 14-day Power trial with no card required.	Free: 3 merged deliveries (trial, no credit card). Self-hosted open source: free forever. Cloud Solo: US$29/month (monthly) or US$24/month (billed yearly at US$290, save 17%) including 400M tokens/month. Cloud Pro: US$79/month (monthly) or US$66/month (billed yearly at US$790, save 17%) including 1.
Key features	Spoken updates from Claude Code and Codex Three listening modes: Co-pilot, Companion and Focus Spoken recaps of agent work Voice dictation with right Command key Hey Parrot voice assistant iPhone companion app for listening and replying Follow multiple agent sessions at once Open source engine with local voices Works with any terminal including iTerm2 and tmux Up to 2M characters of narration daily on Power plan	Isolated worktree for each task Exact-head merge and tagged release Epic and milestone scoping with dependency ordering Recovery from mid-run crashes without restarting Bring your own AI model GitHub-native workflow with branch protection No code upload to infrastructure Automatic Issue drafting from code changes
What makes it different	Works without watching your screen—lets you stay informed while focused on other tasks All code and transcripts stay on your Mac; nothing is used to train models Listen and respond to agents from your iPhone via companion app Open source engine available under Apache 2.0 license Supports multiple coding agents with one interface	AI code review and repair runs independently from the writer, catching bugs the original agent missed Works unattended when humans are offline, turning Issues into releases without supervision Automatic recovery from crashes using GitHub as source of truth
Free plan	Not given	Not given
Open source	Not given	Not given
Platforms	Not given	Not given
Public API	Not given	Not given
Community votes	0	0
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)	6 −1 (down) since last check	23 +3 (up) since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)	3	6
Citation Flow (Majestic)	30	29
Referring domains (Majestic)	101	89

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