# dotMux SSH for tmux & herdr — Shells as native tabs & panes

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

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/dotmux-ssh-for-tmux-and-herdr/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 · 31 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-06-24
- Data updated: 2026-10-29

## What is dotMux SSH for tmux & herdr?

Stop fighting tmux and herdr on a touchscreen.

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

NATIVE tmux AND herdr, NOT raw text
- tmux windows and herdr tabs become native tabs; every pane a native view — focused full-screen on iPhone, true side-by-side splits on iPad and iPhone Duo.
- Split, resize, and close panes from the app — pane menu, long-press, drag the divider, or keyboard shortcuts.
- The window and pane pickers render your real terminals, live: pick a window by what's in it, not by its name.
- Select and copy text with native handles; tap links in the terminal to open them.
- No tmux or herdr on the host? dotMux falls back to a plain terminal.

herdr: BUILT FOR AI CODING AGENTS
- Pick herdr or tmux per host: herdr's workspaces, tabs, and panes are native UI, just like tmux's.
- Each agent's state — blocked, working, done — shows in the tab bar and on the pane, so you see at a glance which agent needs you.
- A live tab grid and pane previews; split, resize, rename, and close from the app.
- Shortcuts run over herdr too.
- Needs herdr 0.9.0 or newer on your server. Inline images don't come through herdr.

UNFOLD IT: iPhone Duo AND iPad
- Closed, the Duo's cover is a focused terminal. Open it, and the inner display lays out real side-by-side splits, the way iPad does.
- Fold, half-fold, rotate: the layout and the keyboard bar follow the display you're using.
- On iPad, open hosts side by side in multiple windows; built for hardware keyboard and trackpad.

EVERY HOST AT ONCE
- Connect to as many hosts as you like at once. Leaving a terminal doesn't disconnect it.
- The host list is the connection switcher: live hosts marked, one tap away. Group hosts into folders.
- Lost the connection while away? dotMux reconnects on its own when you come back.
- Forward a remote port over SSH and open your server's web UI inside dotMux.

REAL SSH, DONE RIGHT
- Password and public-key authentication.
- Import ed25519 or ECDSA (P-256) keys by paste or from Files — passphrase-protected keys included.
- Or generate a key in the Secure Enclave: non-exportable, never leaving the device.
- Manage credentials and trusted host keys in Settings.
- Direct from your device to your servers. No middleman, no developer backend.

PICK UP WHERE YOU LEFT OFF
- The session picker lists every tmux session on the host; switch in place or create named ones.
- iOS suspended the app? Jobs keep running on the server, and dotMux re-attaches and rebuilds your tabs and panes.

A KEYBOARD BUILT FOR TERMINALS
- A helper bar with Esc, Ctrl, Tab and more — add, remove, and reorder every key, even your own text.
- Snippets: save commands globally or per host and run them without typing.
- A multi-line composer for long commands and agent prompts, sent in one go.
- Paste images: annotate them first, and dotMux uploads them and pastes the path (built for Claude Code).
- Hardware keyboard: Cmd-V paste, and the helper bar stays if you want it.

MAKE IT YOURS
- Fonts: JetBrains Mono, Fira Code, Hack, IBM Plex Mono and more.
- Themes with live preview: Dracula, Nord, Solarized, Gruvbox, Tokyo Night — or import any Ghostty or iTerm2 theme.

AUTOMATE IT
- Shortcuts: connect to a host, send a command, read the output back — or open a host in a new tmux window. Unattended runs, enabled per credential.

SECURITY THAT STAYS ON YOUR DEVICE
- Face ID app-lock, plus a Face ID gate per credential.
- Credentials live in the Keychain and Secure Enclave, bound to this device — never synced, never sent anywhere.
- No data collected. No analytics, no tracking, no ads, no account.

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

Note: RSA keys are not supported. Use ed25519, ECDSA (P-256), or a Secure Enclave key.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| dotMux — Unlimited Hosts | $1.99 | one-time |


## Is dotMux SSH for tmux & herdr safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess dotMux SSH for tmux & herdr.

## Is dotMux SSH for tmux & herdr legit?

dotMux SSH for tmux & herdr has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for dotMux SSH for tmux & herdr is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.9.1 — 2026-10-25

herdr support — and every coding agent's state at a glance.

- herdr, the terminal multiplexer built for coding agents, as a per-host choice next to tmux. Its workspaces open as native tabs and panes, and each agent is marked blocked, working or done, on its pane and together in one Agents list.
- iPhone Duo: a focused terminal on the cover, real side-by-side splits on the unfolded inner display.
- Shortcuts: Open dotMux and Connect to Host runs its command in a new tmux window by default, named or numbered, and can stop a busy process first.
- A connecting card with each step, a timer and Cancel; when a connect fails it stays with the reason, Back and Retry.
- A tmux or herdr connection that drops while on screen reconnects by itself, over its last frame.
- Copying from Claude Code and other full-screen apps now uses the app's own copy, and Copy Joined rejoins lines a program wrapped itself.
- Composer typing aids: autocorrect and spell check for prose, off for commands, each aid configurable in Settings.
- Manage credentials from Settings › Security; Trust New Servers Automatically moves into Trusted Servers.
- With a hardware keyboard, ⌘V pastes text and images, and the helper bar can stay on screen.

Fixes: the terminal and snippet editor no longer turn quotes and dashes into curly ones; no more 10-second stall at login on some servers; image uploads no longer collide; the host form keeps its draft through app lock; the pane picker stays readable with many panes; importing a malformed theme no longer crashes; no white flash at launch in light mode.

### 1.8.1 — 2026-09-15

Connect to every host at once — and keep them all live while you move between them.

- Multiple hosts connected at the same time. Leaving a terminal no longer disconnects it: work keeps running on every host you have open, and a pill in the terminal shows how many are live.
- The host list is the connection switcher. Live hosts are marked where you already look, so moving between servers is one tap instead of a reconnect.
- Group hosts into folders, with each folder showing what is connected inside it.
- The window and pane pickers render your real terminals, live — pick a window by what is in it, not by its name.
- Snippets: save commands globally or per host, and run them from the keyboard bar without typing them again.
- Local port forwarding: tunnel a remote port over SSH and open your server's web UI right inside dotMux.
- Shortcuts support: connect, send a command, and read the output. Unattended runs are available per credential, for automations that cannot stop to ask for Face ID.
- Import any Ghostty or iTerm2 color theme, from a file or a URL.
- Import ECDSA (P-256) private keys, alongside ed25519 and Secure Enclave keys.
- Review and forget trusted host keys on a known-hosts screen.
- Annotate pasted images before they upload, and watch the upload progress.
- Drag the divider between panes to resize them on iPhone.
- A redesigned terminal top bar: the same controls meaning the same thing everywhere.

Fixes: restored sessions come back at the right size; the keyboard no longer hides the last terminal row; a tmux server that dies is named on the row instead of blamed on the connection; large pastes and long composer drafts are no longer rejected whole; drafts survive a rejected send; the privacy cover hides sheets in the app switcher; a corrupt host file no longer loses your hosts; and restore-purchase and Ask-to-Buy outcomes are reported instead of dead-ending.

### 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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