Claude Code vs Cursor for solo indie dev: an honest breakdown (I shipped 4 iOS apps to find out)

I'm going to give you the comparison I couldn't find when I was choosing. Most "Claude Code vs Cursor" articles are either vibe-based or benchmarks that don't match solo indie dev workflows. I wanted something grounded in an actual multi-product project: 4 iOS apps, 5 distribution surfaces, 11 public repos, CI/CD across all of them. So I spent 14 days building exactly that — exclusively with Claude Code Pro — while having used Cursor previously for frontend work. This is my honest breakdown. Upf