# dotMux easy SSH with tmux — Shells as native tabs & panes

> Shells as native tabs & panes (iPhone/iPad app by Free Tomorrow.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/dotmux-easy-ssh-with-tmux/id6779584525 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Free Tomorrow](https://appshunter.io/developer/1849763528)
- Category: Developer Tools, Utilities
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 26.0 · 28 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-06-24
- Data updated: 2026-08-30
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/dotmux-easy-ssh-with-tmux/id6779584525/reviews.md

## What is dotMux easy SSH with tmux?

Stop fighting tmux on a touchscreen.

dotMux speaks tmux control mode natively and rebuilds your remote workspace as real iOS UI — the way iTerm2 does on the Mac. Your remote tmux windows and panes become native tabs and views you drive entirely by touch.

NATIVE tmux, NOT raw text
- Remote tmux windows become native tabs.
- Every pane becomes a native view — focused full-screen on iPhone, true side-by-side splits on iPad.
- Split, resize, and close panes right from the app — pane menu, long-press, or keyboard shortcuts.
- Switch windows and panes by tapping or swiping, not by hunting for a prefix key.
- Select and copy text with native handles; tap links in the terminal to open them.
- If a host has no tmux, dotMux falls back gracefully to a plain terminal.

REAL SSH, DONE RIGHT
- Password and public-key authentication.
- Import your ed25519 keys by paste or from Files — passphrase-protected keys included.
- Or generate a key that lives in the Secure Enclave: non-exportable, signing happens in-chip, the private key never leaves the device.
- Connect directly from your device to your own servers. No middleman, no developer backend.

PICK UP WHERE YOU LEFT OFF
- The session picker lists every tmux session on the host and marks the ones already attached.
- Switch sessions in place, or create named ones on the fly.
- iOS suspended the app? Long-running jobs keep running on the server. When you come back, dotMux re-attaches to your tmux session and your tabs and panes rebuild themselves.

A KEYBOARD BUILT FOR TERMINALS
- A helper bar above the keyboard with the keys terminals actually need: Esc, Ctrl, Tab and more.
- Fully customizable: add, remove, and reorder keys — F-keys, Ctrl combos, arrows, even your own text snippets.
- A multi-line composer for drafting long commands and agent prompts, sent in one go.
- A drag-pad arrow joystick with press-and-hold repeat for cursor movement and shell history.
- Sticky modifiers, and a hide-to-floating-dock control when you want the screen back.
- Paste images from your clipboard — dotMux uploads them to the host and pastes the path (built for Claude Code).
- Native iOS 26 styling that respects your system tint.

MAKE IT YOURS
- Terminal fonts: JetBrains Mono, Fira Code, Hack, IBM Plex Mono and more.
- Color themes with live preview: Dracula, Nord, Solarized, Gruvbox, Tokyo Night, Catppuccin and others.
- Pinch to zoom with a live cols × rows readout; keep the screen awake while connected.

SECURITY THAT STAYS ON YOUR DEVICE
- Face ID app-lock, plus a second Face ID gate per credential, with a short configurable grace period.
- Credentials live in the Keychain and Secure Enclave, bound to this device — never synced to iCloud, never sent anywhere.
- A privacy cover hides the terminal in the app switcher.
- dotMux collects no data. No analytics, no tracking, no ads, no account, no sign-up.

MADE FOR iPad TOO
- One universal app for iPhone and iPad.
- Open hosts side by side in multiple windows; built for hardware keyboard and trackpad.

PRICING
- Free: save and connect to one host, fully featured.
- Unlimited Hosts: a one-time $1.99 purchase to save as many servers as you like. No subscription. Restore Purchases supported.

Note: RSA keys are not supported (modern OpenSSH disables the SHA-1 ssh-rsa signature). Use ed25519 or a Secure Enclave key.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| dotMux — Unlimited Hosts | $3.99 | one-time |



## Version history (last 3 releases)

### 1.7.4 — 2026-08-03

Fixes for scrolling, Shift+Tab, and hosts where tmux wouldn't attach.

- Mouse wheel and trackpad scrolling now work in the terminal, exactly like a two-finger swipe — panning scrollback at the shell, or scrolling inside htop, vim and Claude Code.
- Shift+Tab sends a real back-tab, so reverse-tab works in any terminal app instead of behaving like plain Tab.
- Connecting to some hosts showed the shell but never attached to tmux, leaving you in a plain terminal. dotMux now retries the attach once and gets there.

### 1.7.1 — 2026-07-14

The customization release: manage panes from the app, theme the terminal, and make the keyboard bar your own.

- Split, resize, and close tmux panes right from the app — pane menu, long-press, or hardware-keyboard shortcuts.
- Terminal fonts and color themes: JetBrains Mono, Fira Code and more; Dracula, Nord, Solarized, Tokyo Night and others — with live preview.
- Customizable keyboard bar: add, remove, and reorder every key — F-keys, Ctrl combos, arrows, even custom text snippets.
- Multi-line composer: draft long commands or agent prompts, then send them in one go.
- Select and copy terminal text with native handles — works inside vim, htop, and Claude Code.
- Tap links in the terminal to open them; a confirmation shows the destination first.
- Paste images into remote sessions — dotMux uploads them and pastes the path, ready for Claude Code.
- Pinch to zoom with a live cols × rows readout, an extra terminal row on iPhone, and an optional Keep Screen On while connected.
- New: animated launch screen, offer-code redemption, open-source acknowledgements.
- Fixes: wrong terminal size on connect, iPad keyboard/window controls, session dialogs, clearer credential errors.

Unlimited Hosts is now $1.99 — still one-time, still no subscription.

### 1.1.3 — 2026-06-24

No release notes.

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