The very best, finally!
Great design. Everything I need
Great App!
I was originally very suspicious of this app due to some detected high background activity. However, after a couple of weeks of careful packet monitoring I see I was mistaken! This is an excellent application with a nice interface and I can confirm it does not phone home.
Response from developer
We are happy to investigate any unexpected battery usage. We have provided this user with detailed instructions on how to share relevant debug logs from the application. We are not aware of other users reporting similar issues. In general, iOS and iPadOS prevent our application from running in the background except in limited system-managed scenarios. No user data is sent to us. rootshell does not collect analytics or credentials from users of this application. rootshell also goes beyond many applications by offering multiple authentication options in which we never see a private key, including support for YubiKey, FIDO2, and opkssh. Any claims suggesting otherwise are inaccurate and unsupported.
Amazing - especially for free
I needed a terminal app for mobile use that would enable easy use of multiple coding agents and easy switch between them. Crucially it needs to survive network drops and screen off. This does it all, looks group, is flexible and lots of customization. Awesome.
Best terminal app for Claude on iPad
Developer is super responsive and goes above and beyond to make this app great. You can to resume sessions with tssh and change lots of configuration settings. Very friendly with tmux and Claude Code terminal.
hands down best terminal for ios
like many others, i’ve tried just about every other paid or free terminal app for ios and all of them left something to be desired in one way or another (or wanted some unacceptable subscription fee to make their app usable as a daily utility). this app is so sick it just fills me with joy. smooth, fast, stable, modern (libghostty 🤘) with more features than i could ask for, and nothing asked in return. god bless these devs!
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Ipad Dev’s Dream
Coming from competition, I was having lots of issues with artifacting, especially re-renders coming from the codex/gemini cli. This blows everything else out of the water in terms of performance while solving the issues I was having on other terminals. If you have a neovim + tmux setup (or terminal first in general); rootshell feels extremely snappy and customization/setup was straightforward. It utilizes Ghostty’s “engine” (libcore) under the hood hence the great performance. One of my favorite features is the fullscreen mode avoiding the clunky UI that many other options have.
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Simply Amazing
Incredible work. It has been so hard to find an iOS terminal that integrates Tailscale cleanly. How do I donate? Not kidding it’s that good. Keep up the great work dev
More features than I could have imagined
So I have been testing different terminal emulators, and even bought a few. Then I found this one, and holy cow does this one make the others look bad. So to be honest, it took awhile to figure this out. But everytime I looked for a feature it was there. It is the only terminal I was able to get pass through graphics working at more than ascii 256 colors. So after configuring yazi it previews images and pdfs with full colors! And with all that it is FREE!!! I paid for Termius and Shellfish. So I suggest to give it a try, it took awhile to get it working, but it is worth it. Oh I forgot it is really fast, I did not think I would notice a terminal’s delay, but now that I used this one, I notice the delay in other terminal programs.
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An actually good terminal app
Normally don’t write reviews but honestly the work here is stellar. This is far better than even any of the paid terminals available on iOS/iPadOS. Not even close. There are a few kinks at the moment (reconnecting a tssh session after a while away sometimes fails, can’t seem to move tabs around), but this is new and I assume will get ironed out relatively quickly. I like it so much that I swapped my Mac over from Cmux/ghostty, which says a lot despite the kinks. It is worth your time to try, even on macOS. My only real complaint is that I have no way to give money to this dev (not that free isn’t awesome and makes the software really accessible, but I wouldn’t mind giving at least *something*)
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Fantastic work
The number of features built into this is crazy. So good. Congrats to the team.
Better than anything else
Holy cow, felt like I tried everything else, but this actually gives you the full screen and just works. Amazing work on this. Would give it 10 stars if I could