Orca adds a Git Graph tab, and /btw asks a side question mid-chat

Orca now has a Git Graph tab. It draws your local and remote branches and tags, with each commit's details and changed files. Folder workspaces get Source Control too, and you can switch branches in place.

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Orca’s new Git Graph tab shows every branch and commit

Graph

local and remote branches and tags

Commit

its details and changed files

Folders

folder workspaces get Source Control

Click the branch name in Source Control to switch or create a branch in place.

In Chat UI, /btw asks a side question in a fork beside your chat, and the original keeps running. A chat that opened a pull request now tells you when its CI passes or fails.

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In Chat UI, /btw asks a side question without stopping the chat

/btw

asks in a fork beside the chat, which keeps running

/fork

starts a new chat from the latest response

CI

a chat that opened or pushed to a pull request says when CI passes or fails

Agents that can’t fork, such as Antigravity, Pi and Grok, still send /btw to the agent.

Your phone can now transcribe dictation on the device, with the computer as fallback. And dictation runs in its own process, so a speech engine crash no longer takes Orca down.

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Your phone can now turn speech into text by itself

iPhone

on the device, on iOS 26 or later

Android

on the device

Crashes

a speech engine crash or hang no longer takes Orca down

Desktop Orca now loads the speech model before your first dictation. Unload Speech Model in Settings › Voice frees that memory sooner.

On your phone, chat messages now queue while the desktop is unreachable and go out in order when it's back. Drafts and unsaved file edits survive the app being killed.

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On the phone, chat messages queue while the desktop is away

Queue

messages go out in order when the desktop is back

Drafts

drafts, attachments and unsaved file edits survive the app being killed

Screens

reopen from what the phone already has

A queue that outlives a killed app comes back paused, and sends only when you tap Resume.

With more than one Codex account, typing could lag across Orca while it linked their history. That work no longer blocks the app, and remote terminals send each keystroke right away.

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Typing no longer lags while Orca links Codex accounts

Before

typing lagged across Orca while it linked Codex history between accounts

Now

that work runs without blocking the app

Remote

remote terminals send a single keystroke right away

Pairing codes now work once. After a device saves its own sign-in, the code it used stops working. And the first time you start an agent in a new repo, Orca asks whether to trust it.

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Pairing codes now work once, and new repos ask before agents run

Pairing

a code stops working once its device saves its own sign-in

Trust

Orca asks once per new repo before trusting it for agents

orca serve

refuses public internet addresses unless there’s a reason to allow them

Devices on older apps keep working, and repos you already use get no prompt.

You can also import your own app icon, and Claude Code can match your Orca terminal theme if you say yes. If you run agents from your phone, I'd update today for the send queue alone.

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Your own app icon, theme videos and Claude Code colors

App icon

import your own in Appearance settings

Themes

plugins can play a looping background video and ship fonts

Claude Code

can match your Orca terminal theme; off until you say yes

Run agents from your phone? Update today.

Orca v1.4.254 release notes on GitHub