CTRL Micro vs Elva: Features, Pricing & Which Is Better (2026)

A side-by-side comparison of CTRL Micro and Elva — features, pricing, and ideal use cases — to help you decide which AI tool fits your workflow.

CTRL Micro

MedHue Labs

Free

Turns an iPhone or iPad into a haptic control deck for your Mac and for AI coding agents like Claude, Codex and Cursor.

Haptic Control Deck: A customisable board of controls that responds with haptics, sound and visual feedback so actions can be triggered without looking.
Agent Task Monitoring: Shows progress and attention states for Codex, Claude and Cursor tasks at a glance, and lets you reopen recent tasks or start new ones.
Client-Specific Controls: Switches the deck between Mac control and per-agent control surfaces tailored to Codex, Claude and Cursor.
Full Mac Control: Launches applications, adjusts volume, brightness, media and windows, moves the pointer, scrolls, clicks, runs Shortcuts and invokes Siri.
Local Dictation: Dictates into desktop apps from the deck with transcription processed locally by CTRL Micro Host on the Mac rather than in the cloud.
Desktop View: Streams the Mac screen above the controls or full screen, with pinch, pan and double-tap to inspect detail.
Remote Anywhere: End-to-end encrypted remote sessions where the relay forwards opaque data and cannot read screen or control content.
No-Account Privacy Model: Requires no CTRL Micro account, keeps nearby connections direct between devices, and stores no screen frames, keystrokes or dictation.

Agent Babysitting: Keep an eye on long-running Claude Code or Codex tasks from a second screen and step in the moment one needs attention.
Hands-Free Dictation: Dictate prompts or documentation into Mac apps from the iPad while keeping the keyboard free for other work.
Desk Ergonomics: Move frequently used Mac shortcuts and media controls onto a physical-feeling deck instead of hunting through menus.
Remote Mac Access: Check on and control a Mac at the office from elsewhere over an end-to-end encrypted Remote Anywhere session.
Multi-Agent Workflows: Switch between Codex, Claude and Cursor sessions from one deck when several agents are working in parallel.
Privacy-Sensitive Environments: Control a Mac and transcribe speech without creating an account or sending screen content to a vendor.

Theneo

Freemium

Reads your repositories to discover every API, scores and governs them, then exposes them to developers and AI agents via hosted MCP servers.

Spec-Free API Discovery: Elva scans repository code directly to find endpoints and generates OpenAPI 3.1 as output, so no existing spec is needed to start.
Endpoint Scoring: Every collection is graded on design, developer experience, AI readiness, security and performance, with the weakest collection surfaced first.
AI Fix Pass: A one-click agent writes missing descriptions from code, types response schemas and documents auth, then rescores the collection.
API Contracts: Per-audience contracts pin the exact endpoints and fields a partner, internal team, public developer or MCP client receives, excluding PII and internal fields.
Breaking Change Enforcement: Each commit is diffed against published contracts, showing the schema diff, affected consumers and tools, and blocking publish by policy.
Hosted MCP Servers: Contracts generate MCP servers hosted behind Elva's gateway with OAuth2, scoped keys, per-tool authorization and exportable call logs.
MCP Playground and Agent Feedback: Test the server with a live model, then read the complaints agents file about confusing or failing tools, scored back into the catalog.
Multi-Target Publishing: One approved contract ships as OpenAPI spec, Theneo docs, MCP server, Postman collection and a typed TypeScript SDK in sync.

API Inventory Audit: Discover undocumented or forgotten endpoints across a large codebase and get a ranked list of what to fix first.
Agent Enablement: Expose an internal service to Claude, Cursor or ChatGPT as a governed MCP server instead of hand-writing tool wrappers.
Partner Integration Safety: Publish a restricted contract to an external partner and have Elva block commits that would break their integration.
PII Scoping: Keep customer emails and internal ops annotations out of a public or agent-facing surface while the same endpoints serve them internally.
Zombie Endpoint Retirement: Prove no active consumer references an endpoint before deleting it, using contract and call-log evidence.
Enterprise Security Review: Satisfy SOC 2, ISO 27001 and GDPR questions and wire agent access into an existing SSO and SCIM identity provider.
Documentation Drift Control: Keep docs, SDKs and Postman collections regenerated from code on every merge instead of maintained by hand.