NovaScale, SSH/Herdr+Tailscale vs Peekstack

NovaScale is a remote-work and server-operations workspace built for Tailscale. Use SSH, monitoring, private web tools, SFTP, Herdr, Remote Git, and Remote Codex from one app—without switching VPN apps. Built-in Tailscale connects your tailnet inside NovaScale. Traditional SSH hosts and Headscale are also supported. HOSTS - Auto-discover tailnet hosts; organize with aliases, icons, groups and pins. SSH TERMINAL - Maintained native Swift terminal with customizable themes, external keyboards, combo keys, Simple Commands, OSC52 and Neovim support. - Pin terminal/tmux sessions; use copy mode with Page Up/Down and choose prefixes such as Ctrl-A. Touch-scroll, click, select and open menus in mouse-aware apps. - Command/argument suggestions with optional Bash/Zsh integration. Built-in Tailscale handles network changes; recovery depends on network, host and iOS conditions. REMOTE CODEX - Install and configure Codex on your host. Threads are managed there; NovaScale is a remote client and may cache content locally for display. - Connect to your Mac/Linux Codex CLI/app-server via Tailscale. Resume, fork, pin and rename threads; search across projects and sync pins with compatible desktop hosts. - Send prompts/files, review Markdown, LaTeX and changes, handle approvals, and follow goals, subagents and activity. Adjust text size/spacing; open images full screen. - Share files directly over authenticated app-server WebSocket; Pro adds linked-host SFTP transfers with byte progress. Diagnose host setup and compatibility in-app. - Free includes one Codex host, in-app banners and best-effort local notifications. REMOTE HERDR - Connect compatible Herdr on Mac/Linux via Tailscale or traditional SSH. Native protocol and controls for workspaces, tabs, agents and status, with a full terminal experience. - Pin and detach without stopping remote agents; paste images. Free: three daily visits and one pin. Pro: unlimited visits/pins and file/photo uploads. ON-DEVICE DICTATION - Dictate in Terminal, Codex and Herdr on supported iOS 26 devices/languages. Works offline after language assets are installed; raw audio is not saved or uploaded. CODEX & HERDR PUSH - Optional alerts when remote work needs you, even with NovaScale closed. Choose work opened in NovaScale or selected hosts. Requires host-side setup; plan limits apply. Disable at any time. REMOTE GIT - Browse repositories, branches, commits and diffs over SSH. Stage, unstage and commit on the remote host. MONITORING & CONTAINERS - CPU, memory, network, disk and I/O trends; inspect and end processes. Monitor, start, stop and restart Docker and supported macOS Apple containers. Pro adds container deployment. WEB & SFTP - Open services via URL, MagicDNS or Tailscale IP. Optional remote SOCKS5/HTTP CONNECT browser proxy and self-signed certificates; background audio from services such as Jellyfin. - Pro: browse, transfer, preview and edit SFTP files. Share files from iOS to SFTP, Terminal and Codex. LOCAL PROXY - Optional passwordless loopback SOCKS5/HTTP CONNECT access to active-tailnet peers for compatible apps on this device. No location permission needed; background access depends on iOS. PLANS & COMPATIBILITY - Core workflows are free with limits. Pro expands capacity and adds SFTP, flexible iCloud sync, container deployment and advanced customization. iOS 15+; in-app web requires iOS 17+. - Codex and Herdr require compatible host installations. TRANSPARENCY - Not affiliated with Tailscale Inc. Remote Push sends opaque IDs and signed lifecycle events, not prompts, code, commands, patches, responses, transcript paths or working directories. - Codex bootstrap wrapper and companion agent: https://github.com/GalaxNet-Ltd/nova-codex-bootstrap - Built on a maintained libtailscale fork: https://github.com/GalaxNet-Ltd/libtailscale - Support: nova-support@galaxnet.cc - Terms: https://galaxnet.dev/nova/legal/tos/ - Privacy: https://galaxnet.dev/nova/legal/privacy/

Your infrastructure, in your pocket. peekstack connects straight to the servers you already run and shows you what they are doing, then lets you act on it. There is no account to create, no service of ours in the middle, and nothing collected about you or your machines. FREE, WITH ONE OPTIONAL UNLOCK peekstack is free and connects two services, and you can swap which two as often as you like. peekstack Pro removes the limit with a one-time purchase. No subscription, nothing to renew. TRY IT WITHOUT A SERVER Demo mode fills the app with realistic data so you can see how everything works before connecting anything. Every demo item is clearly badged, so you always know what is real. Turn it on in Settings, or from any empty screen. WHAT YOU CAN CONNECT • Kubernetes: nodes, workloads and pods, warning events, and pod logs streamed live • Proxmox VE: nodes and guests with live CPU, memory and disk, guest consoles, and power actions where your token allows • Docker, through Portainer: containers, states, ports and live logs • Gitea: repository files on any branch, diffs for every commit and pull request, issues, and Actions runs with their live logs • Uptime Kuma: monitors, their status and history • AdGuard Home: query log and blocking activity • Olares: the state of your Olares install • ComfyUI: what the GPU is rendering with a live preview, what it made, and how long each render took • Ollama: the models you have, what is loaded and the memory it is holding, and pulling or removing a model from your phone • Any server speaking the standard chat completions API (LiteLLM, vllm, llama.cpp, LM Studio): the models it serves, and the same chat • Hermes Agent: what your agent is doing, its kanban board, the skills it has, the jobs it runs on a timer, and the files it can reach • Langfuse: today’s LLM calls, spend and errors, sessions as conversations, and each trace down to its input and output • TrueNAS: pools with their fill level and health, a running scrub, datasets, and the alerts the NAS itself raises • Prometheus: alerts firing right now, scrape targets that stopped answering, and rules that fail to evaluate • SSH: a proper terminal on any machine you can reach CHAT WITH YOUR OWN MODELS Talk to the models your own servers serve. Replies stream in as they are written, with rendered markdown and code blocks you can copy in one tap. Reasoning models show their thinking as it happens, folded away once the answer starts. Models that take images take photos from your library. Every conversation is waiting where you left it. With Hermes Agent it is the agent you are talking to, not just a model: it keeps its own memory, uses its own tools, and asks you before it runs anything dangerous. A DASHBOARD YOU BUILD Home is a grid of cards you choose, configure and arrange. Place the same card twice with different settings: two Pods cards watching two namespaces. Keep several dashboards and switch with a tap. ON YOUR HOME SCREEN Two widgets. One answers “is anything wrong” at a glance. The other shows a service of your choosing with the same body as its card in the app: pools with their capacity bars, monitors with their beat strips. They refresh in the background and each carries an “as of” time, so they never pretend to be newer than they are. A REAL TERMINAL SSH sessions, Proxmox guest consoles and Kubernetes pod shells run in one terminal that stays alive as you move around the app. Native text selection and copy, a key toolbar for esc, tab and control combinations, and full ANSI color. Whatever you have open is one tap away. SEARCH EVERYTHING One search box spans every service you have connected. BUILT FOR IPAD Not a stretched phone: multi-column layouts, master and detail. YOUR CREDENTIALS STAY YOURS Passwords, API tokens and SSH keys live in the iOS keychain. They are never written to app storage, never sent anywhere, and never appear in logs or error messages. peekstack talks only to the addresses you type in.