rootshell vs TablePro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
rootshell
This app provides a powerful, desktop-class terminal emulator with GPU acceleration and native support for SSH, Mosh, and tssh. It offers features like system-wide VPN over SSH, native Git integration, and AI assistance for hands-free command execution and web searches.
- GPU-accelerated terminal
- Native SSH and Mosh support
- System-wide VPN over SSH
- Native Git client
- AI voice and text agents
- Cloud and Kubernetes integration
- Hardware security key support
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rootshell is a desktop-class terminal emulator built on libghostty — the GPU-accelerated engine behind the Ghostty desktop terminal. A local shell on every platform, Mac screen sharing, native SSH, mosh-compatible roaming, tssh, system-wide VPN, native git, and Metal rendering in a single app. NEW: SCREEN SHARING Reach your Mac's screen, not just its shell, from your iPhone or iPad. High Performance mode streams up to 4K at 60 FPS, fully encrypted. Match Client sizing spins up a virtual display sized exactly to your device: no panning, no letterboxing, with remote system audio. Standard VNC mode covers Linux and headless machines, and tunnels over SSH jump hosts. Nothing to install on the Mac — turn on Screen Sharing and connect. Touch, trackpad, hardware keyboard, and two-way clipboard all work, in tabs, splits, or full screen. METAL-ACCELERATED TERMINAL Built on libghostty's Zig core with direct Metal rendering. Smooth scrolling, zero-flicker synchronized output, and full mouse capture for tmux, vim, and zellij. Tabs, split panes, and persistent scrollback across app restarts. THREE REMOTE PROTOCOLS, ONE APP • SSH — Native Swift SSH client with Ed25519, ECDSA, RSA, and post-quantum ML-KEM + ML-DSA. Jump hosts, port and agent forwarding, and Keychain password storage. • Rootshell Roam — Mosh-compatible sessions survive network changes and app restarts. Multipath TCP bonds WiFi and cellular. Predictive local echo keeps typing responsive. STUN-based NAT traversal punches through firewalls. • tssh with QUIC (TLS 1.3) and KCP transport for lower latency, full native scrollback, and session resumption. NATIVE TMUX INTEGRATION Attach in control mode (tmux -CC) and tmux windows become native tabs, panes become real splits — copy, search, and scroll with native gestures. A dashboard shows live window previews, and tabs survive restarts over tssh. SSH VPN Turn any SSH or tssh session into a system-wide VPN. Route all device traffic through your remote server. No extra software on the server — if you can SSH to it, you can VPN through it. NATIVE GIT Clone, commit, diff, log, blame, rebase, cherry-pick, and worktree — in native Swift with SSH transport. Syntax-highlighted pager output and optional AI-generated commit messages. VOICE AI AGENT Talk to an always-on assistant over Gemini Live. It reads scrollback, runs SSH commands hands-free, searches the web, and asks permission before anything risky. OPTIONAL TEXT AI Chat with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or 400+ models via OpenRouter. Bring your own API key. HARDWARE SECURITY KEYS Private keys never leave hardware. FIDO2/WebAuthn authentication with touch-to-sign. SANDBOXED LOCAL SHELL A full local shell with vim 9.1, Helix, SFTP, SCP, curl, jq, mtr, and standard Unix utilities. The rf browser offers yazi-style miller columns with image previews and git indicators. croc peer-to-peer file transfer, flag-aware tab completion, and prompt themes. CLOUD & KUBERNETES Connect to AWS, Azure, DigitalOcean, Akamai (Linode), and Tailscale. Browse instances, access serial consoles, generate EKS kubeconfigs, and debug Kubernetes nodes with ephemeral pods. 450+ THEMES & VISUAL EFFECTS Over 450 color themes with location-based day/night switching. Animated backgrounds — solar, ocean waves, starfields, fireflies — plus Shadertoy-compatible shaders and custom fonts. CUSTOMIZABLE TOOLBAR Drag, reorder, and hide 45+ built-in keys. Create custom keys that send text, key combos, or sequences. Sticky modifiers with tap and double-tap lock. Separate iPhone and iPad layouts. CONNECTION MANAGEMENT Save profiles with folders, tags, and iCloud sync. Quick Connect autocompletes from history and cloud instances. Background SSH tunnels with auto-start. Siri Shortcuts integration. KEYBOARD POWER FEATURES QMK-style mod-tap keys, dictation and CJK input, customizable shortcuts, and Option key as Alt for international layouts.
TablePro
A native database client for mobile devices, allowing users to browse, query, and edit data across various SQL and NoSQL databases. It offers secure connections, syntax highlighting, and sync capabilities with its Mac counterpart.
- Connect to MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, MongoDB, Redis, and more
- Browse, search, and filter database tables
- Edit rows, insert, delete, and manage transactions
- SQL editor with syntax highlighting and suggestions
- Secure connections via SSH tunnels and SSL
- Sync connections and queries with TablePro for Mac
- Live Activity for running queries on the Lock Screen
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TablePro is a native database client for iPhone and iPad. Browse tables, run queries and edit rows, using the same connections you use in TablePro on the Mac. DATABASES - MySQL and MariaDB - PostgreSQL - Microsoft SQL Server - Oracle - MongoDB - ClickHouse - Redis - SQLite and DuckDB files on your device - TiDB and OceanBase - Amazon Redshift connections synced from the Mac - Cloudflare D1, with the database picked from your account's list BROWSE - Search tables and page through rows, 50 to 500 at a time - Sort by any column, search text columns, and stack filters with AND or OR - Show rows and query results as cards or as a grid with a pinned header and key column - Tap a foreign key to preview the row it points to, then open it - See the columns, indexes and foreign keys of any table - On iPad, the table list sits beside the open table EDIT - Open a row full screen, change values, set NULL and save - View and edit JSON values - Insert and delete rows, truncate or drop a table - Every save, insert and delete runs in a transaction - An open transaction shows on every tab, with Commit and Roll Back - Safe mode for each connection: Off, Confirm Writes or Read-Only QUERY - SQL editor with syntax highlighting - Suggestions for tables, columns and keywords as you type - Run the statement at the cursor or the whole script, and stop it while it runs - Saved queries, synced with your Mac - Copy or export results as JSON, CSV or SQL INSERT statements - Query history for each connection - Follow a running query in a Live Activity on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island CONNECT SECURELY - SSH tunnels with a password, a private key or keyboard-interactive sign-in, with host key checks - SSH jump hosts and two-factor codes - SSL with CA and client certificates - Sign in with AWS IAM or Google Cloud IAM instead of a stored password - Passwords and private keys kept in the Keychain - Lock the app with Face ID, Touch ID or Optic ID WORKS WITH YOUR MAC - iCloud sync of connections, groups, tags and saved queries with TablePro for Mac, off until you turn it on - Password sync through iCloud Keychain, off by default - Continue an open connection on another device with Handoff - Import connections from a .tablepro file through Files or AirDrop ORGANIZE - Favorites, recent connections, groups and tags - Custom icons for connections and groups - A Quick Connect widget for your Home Screen - Shortcuts and Siri actions to open a connection or add rows to a table TRY IT FIRST Open the built-in Chinook sample database to browse, query and edit without setting up a server. PRIVACY Usage data is off unless you turn it on, and it never includes hostnames, usernames, passwords, queries or data.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: rootshell at 91% against TablePro's 75%. rootshell also leads on ratings volume (53 vs 3) and rating (4.9 vs 4.7). TablePro's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs fortnightly). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
rootshell holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: rootshell has 53 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 91% of rootshell's written reviews are positive against 75% of TablePro's.
rootshell ships an update fortnightly, TablePro every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | rootshell | TablePro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (53 ratings) — better | 4.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 91.3% of reviews — better | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 53 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #16 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 376 MB | 83 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rootshell LLC | Dat Ngo Quoc |
Customer experience
rootshell
TablePro
In-app purchases
rootshell
No in-app purchases
TablePro
No in-app purchases








