Lighthouse Score vs La Terminal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lighthouse Score
Visualize your website's speed score using six key parameters, mirroring Google's ranking system. Adjust metrics directly on a graph to see immediate impacts on your overall score and individual components. Benchmark against competitors and understand scoring thresholds for SEO improvement.
- Visualize website speed score
- Adjust metrics via interactive graph
- Benchmark against competitors
- Understand scoring thresholds
- Compare desktop vs. mobile thresholds
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Simple website speed score visualisation. Use 6 rating parameters to produce your Speed Score the way Google ranks your site. • See how your score is calculated. Change the score or value directly using the graph and watch the outcome on the individual metric and the overall Speed Score. • Improve your SEO. Benchmark your site against your competitors. Compare your score against values of other websites in your niche. • Improve your knowledge. Shows thresholds used for red/amber/green scoring. • Compare platforms. Switch thresholds to desktop to compare equal inputs.
La Terminal
This app provides a mobile command center for AI coding agents and server management. It offers full SSH and Mosh support for resilient sessions, along with powerful resource monitoring and an AI-powered assistant for command generation.
- SSH and Mosh support
- AI-powered command assistant
- Command Search and workflow gallery
- Resource monitoring and process explorer
- Secure private key storage
- iCloud sync for settings and keys
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Welcome to La Terminal, your mobile command center for AI coding agents. Connect to OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot CLI, or OpenClaw from anywhere, with full SSH and Mosh support for resilient, always-on sessions. More than just a simple command-line shell, La Terminal provides a fully-native, first-class touch experience for command-line hackers on iPhone and iPad. Built on Open Source: From the original developer of Midnight Commander, the open source visual file manager for Linux, La Terminal provides a comprehensive Xterm/DEC VT terminal emulator experience based on the popular open source SwiftTerm library with powerful client amenities for serious command-line aficionados. Command Search: Use Command Search to quickly find the command you are looking for. Search your own command history and our comprehensive workflow gallery to find and execute commands. Create and edit your own workflows for a variety of tasks, including running frequently used commands, automating a series of commands, or just tracking down a complex command that might be difficult to recall. AI-powered assistant: Get help writing Linux, Mac, or Windows terminal commands using plain English, such as “extract the name property inside the article element from a json file” or “list the most CPU consuming Kubernetes pods”. Eye candy: La Terminal sports a fully themeable experience accented with beautifully captivating live-effect backgrounds powered by Metal Performance Shaders. Secure Enclave: Your private keys are stored in the secure enclave so your private key can never be found in plain text. Powerful status visualizations: La Terminal’s resource monitoring tools put powerful CPU and memory use visualizations, as well as a native process explorer, right at your fingertips. Resource monitoring visualizations are accessible from the top of any connected terminal, and process explorer tools provide multiple views into CPU, memory, and disk utilization. Thumbnail snapshots show previews of connected hosts along with system load over time in the active Terminals view. Network monitoring plots data traffic on a world map to help you understand the sources and targets of connections to and from your connected hosts. iCloud for everyone: La Terminal makes it easy to switch between your iPhone, iPad, and Mac by syncing your settings and keys over iCloud - like magic! Host platform aware: Whether you’re managing a dozen Linux VMs on AWS or Azure, logging into zsh on your Mac desktop, or configuring your latest IoT Raspberry Pi project via bash, La Terminal provides the most productive experience possible on a mobile device. La Terminal is even Windows-aware to ensure PowerShell power users can enjoy a delightful ssh experience, too. International support: La Terminal delivers extensive support for international terminals, including rendering internationalized output as well as support for internationalized input methods from native iOS dictation and international keyboards. La Terminal Pro features - Complete SFTP File Manager - Upload, download and navigate remote filesystems with our native SFTP client. - Files can be uploaded or downloaded to the local device via the iOS Files app, or copied between remote hosts. - Files app support - Access files on any configured La Terminal host using Apple’s Files app and other File Provider-enabled apps. - SSH Agent Forwarding - Use locally configured keys to authorize connections when SSHing between remote hosts. - All Live Backgrounds - Choose from our full library of GPU-accelerated Live Backgrounds to customize your terminal experience. Terms of Service: https://la-terminal.net/la-terminal/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://la-terminal.net/privacy-policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: La Terminal at 66% against Lighthouse Score's 0%. La Terminal also leads on price (Free vs $0.99) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 7 months). Lighthouse Score's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and chart position (#195 vs unranked). On ads and device support 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
La Terminal is free to download; Lighthouse Score costs $0.99 up front. La Terminal sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Lighthouse Score asks for nothing beyond the download.
Lighthouse Score ships an update every 7 months, La Terminal every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lighthouse Score | La Terminal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | — | 4.7 (104 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 66.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 104 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Best chart rank | #195 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, Vision Pro |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 18.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 85 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | George Garside | Xibbon, Inc |
Customer experience
Lighthouse Score
La Terminal
Bugs and requests
Lighthouse Score
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
La Terminal
Reported bugs
23 issues- Stuck in "keys" dialog on first use (Vision Pro)
- Nerd symbols do not display well
- Session keep alive technology stopped working well
- File transfer corrupts uploads
- Connection silently dies after app switch, folders appear empty
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- Korean language is de-composed
- No character support for 2-character-wide characters
- App crashes reproducible on iOS 18.1 when loading SSH key from file
- Keyboard will not hide on sessions page, tab bar unreachable
- Lot of lag when typing, making app unusable
- Blurry fonts compared to other SSH apps
- Unable to open more than two SSH sessions
- Clicking on terminal pastes clipboard content
- Cannot get anything to connect using Vision Pro initially (PolicyDenied)
- VisionOS local network access issues
- App sometimes crashes when scrolling to appearance section of a connection
- Can’t change default port number
- Text is clipped entirely on the four rounded corners
- Cannot figure out how to highlight text and paste
- Need to put login/password for every individual host
- Need to use ed25519 SSH key
- Sneaky processes uploaded to server without permission/explanation
- Monitoring bug: typing doesn't input after dismissing charts
Requested features
34 requests- Add English option
- Ability to change text size easily
- Support for ed25519 SSH keys
- Option to turn off rendering bright colors as bold fonts
- Ban the soft keyboard from ever appearing again
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- Open a second session with a host
- Customization for monitoring (exclude/hide mount points)
- Ability to highlight text and paste easily
- One spot for passwords (accounts/group menu)
- Support for 2-character-wide characters
- Ability to change font
- Disable mouse reporting option
- Fix file transfer corruption
- Improve session keep alive technology
- Fix connection dying after app switch
- Fix keyboard not hiding on sessions page
- Fix blurry fonts
- Support more than two windows
- Fix pasting on click
- Remove black bars on Vision Pro windows
- Add margin to terminal windows
- Fix text clipping at rounded corners
- Fix laggy performance
- Make scrolling work with Neovim
- Fix VisionOS local network access issues
- Allow changing default port number
- Fix native session persistence
- Fix tmux option to attach to existing session
- Improve handling of network glitches
- Fix Korean language de-composition
- Fix tutorials not working
- Fix settings buttons
- Add dark mode option
- Advanced analytics dashboard
In-app purchases
Lighthouse Score
No in-app purchases
La Terminal
- La Terminal Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
- La Terminal Pro Yearly$19.991 Year
- La Terminal Pro Lifetime$99.99
Questions
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