Khyra vs BentoTerm
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
Khyra
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Khyra is a modern development environment for iPhone and iPad that lets you write, learn, organize, and improve code directly on your mobile device. The powerful code editor supports multiple programming languages and includes syntax highlighting, intelligent suggestions, automatic indentation, code formatting, error detection, and convenient Quick Fixes. Frequently used symbols and language-specific tools are always available through an optimized keyboard toolbar. With the integrated AI assistant, you can generate new code or explain, improve, and repair selected sections. Khyra uses Apple Foundation Models directly on supported devices, providing intelligent assistance within your project. Organize projects, files, and custom code snippets, start with ready-to-use templates for Swift, SwiftUI, SwiftData, and other technologies, or explore APIs and frameworks through the integrated documentation. Local version management preserves important editing states. You can compare old and new code, review changes clearly, and restore previous versions. Khyra is designed specifically for coding on mobile devices: ⢠Custom code keyboard toolbar ⢠Find and Replace ⢠Quick navigation to specific lines ⢠Duplicate, delete, and move lines ⢠Comment and indentation tools ⢠Distraction-free Focus Mode ⢠Pinch gesture for changing the editor font size ⢠External keyboard support ⢠Customizable editor layout ⢠A wide selection of light, dark, and colorful themes ⢠HTML preview and integrated playground ⢠Modern and compact developer documentation Whether you are learning to code, testing an idea while away from your desk, or building your own project, Khyra combines an editor, documentation, templates, version comparison, and intelligent coding assistance in one app.
BentoTerm
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Your agents run for forty minutes at a time. Watching one is a waste of you ā so you run several, and the problem becomes keeping track of them all. Bento Term is a terminal built for exactly that. A WHOLE TEAM, ONE SCREEN Every agent gets a pane, tinted by what it's doing: blue is working, amber is waiting for you, green is done and you haven't looked yet. You read the room instead of visiting each one. Parallel mode tiles everything; Focus mode gives one pane the whole screen with the rest in a sidebar. SAY IT, DON'T TYPE IT Hold on a pane and talk. Speaking is about three times faster than typing, and Bento reads the screen, so file names and technical words come out right ā mixed Chinese/English included. Slide up to send, down to cancel. LEAVE THE DESK, NOT THE WORK Everything runs in tmux on your machine ā your Mac, a Linux server, or WSL ā over plain SSH, with nothing installed on the other end. Quit the app, close the laptop: nothing stops. Attach from iPhone or iPad mid-run and answer from wherever you are. EVERY DAY - The file tree of every pane's working directory. Tap a printed path and it opens with syntax highlighting, even at :42. PDFs and images too. - Panes move like windows: split, drag, drop ā every move is a real tmux move. - Pick a folder, pick an agent, and Bento opens the panes and starts them. No shell needed. - Ten agents recognized out of the box ā Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI and more ā every profile editable, so a tool nobody has heard of yet is one profile away. BUILT LIKE A TERMINAL Native Swift, the same GPU renderer as Ghostty (libghostty), real tmux control mode (-CC). No accounts. Your terminal output never leaves your machines. Free and open source, Apache-2.0. Requires a machine you can ssh into with tmux installed. macOS, Linux and WSL all work.
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Verdict
Khyra and BentoTerm are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters ā price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them ā neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Khyra | BentoTerm |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | ā |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17 | 17.0 |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tufan Cakir | Chi On Ho |
In-app purchases
Khyra
No in-app purchases
BentoTerm
No in-app purchases









