Sofa vs Terminal Emulator Plus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sofa
Control your Mac or Linux computer remotely from your iPhone or iPad. Launch apps, open files, navigate menus, and manage system functions like volume and power. It offers custom controls for popular applications and websites.
- Launch and quit applications
- Open files remotely
- Navigate menus and edit text
- Control system functions (volume, brightness)
- Custom controls for popular apps/websites
- Lock, sleep, restart, and shutdown computer
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Control your Mac from your iPhone or iPad with Sofa's simple and effective user interface. - Launch apps, quit, minimise, go fullscreen - Open files on your Mac or your Linux box with the default or another associated app - Navigate through lists, press buttons and edit text - Access menu commands - Hand-crafted controls for the most popular apps and websites - Adjust volume and display brightness - Lock the screen, put to sleep, restart and shutdown your computer All this while in couch-potato mode or doing a presentation. Sofa supports interaction with the most popular applications and websites: - Apple apps: Music, TV, Books, Photos, Preview, Photo Booth, Finder, ... - Chrome, Safari, Firefox, VLC, MPV, IINA, Skype, ... - YouTube, YouTube Music, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Spotify, SoundCloud, Vimeo and more! In order to connect, you need the free Sofa Server running on your Mac. Get it at http://tordini.org/sofa
Terminal Emulator Plus
This utility app provides access to various shell types for simplified terminal-optimized tasks. It features a friendly web front-end for quick functions like conversions and calculations.
- Access different shell types
- Terminal-optimized tasks
- PTY connection
- Web front-end
- Quick conversions
- Quick math functions
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Terminal Emulator Plus an application that allows access to different types of Shell. Simple "terminal-optimized" tasks. In an abstract way, got a PTY (term.js) that connects to the shell (termprops.js) to the user's display. Friendly web front-end that can run quick functions that I normally used a Python shell for, such as common conversions and quick math.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Sofa at 3.5 against Terminal Emulator Plus's 1.0. Sofa also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 8 months). Terminal Emulator Plus's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On price, ratings volume, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Sofa sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Terminal Emulator Plus asks for nothing beyond the download.
Sofa holds the better App Store score, 3.5 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
Sofa ships an update every 4 days, Terminal Emulator Plus every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sofa | Terminal Emulator Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (2 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Flavio Tordini | Dioneibys Blanco Grudas |
Customer experience
Sofa
Terminal Emulator Plus
In-app purchases
Sofa
- 10-day TrialFree
- Sofa Pro$4.99
Terminal Emulator Plus
No in-app purchases
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