ShellTime.xyz vs The Architect SSH
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β with what reviewers say about each.
ShellTime.xyz
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ShellTime brings your developer activity to iPhone and iPad: the commands you run, what your AI coding agents cost, and the time you spend in your editor. The free shelltime CLI and editor extensions record your shell history, your Claude Code and Codex usage, and your coding time in VS Code, Neovim and JetBrains. Sign in with your ShellTime account and your stats are already there. TODAY β’ Today's commands, AI spend and coding time at a glance CODING AGENT β’ Tokens, cost, efficiency and lines changed for Claude Code, Codex and more β’ Today, 30 days, 90 days or all time, with monthly charts for all time β’ Open any session to read back your prompts, the tool calls and the lines it changed β’ Browse your projects and search your prompts COMMANDS β’ Search and filter your shell history from every machine β’ Exit status, shell, terminal and host for every command, and your most used commands CODING ACTIVITY β’ Coding time by editor and by language RANKING AND TEAMS β’ Daily rankings, Claude Code and Codex boards, and the global community board β’ Teams share devices, sessions and rankings with collaborators REPORTS β’ Weekly and monthly reports on your shell, AI and editor activity WIDGETS AND APPLE WATCH β’ Home Screen widgets for activity, coding agents, coding activity and rate limits, plus a Custom widget built from the sections you pick β’ Lock Screen widgets for rate limits and activity β’ An Apple Watch app with your overview, coding agent sessions, commands and ranking AND MORE β’ A push notification when your Claude usage limits reset (Pro) β’ Approve web and CLI sign-ins from a notification, confirmed with Face ID β’ Embeddable badges for your GitHub profile or README β’ In English, Japanese, Korean and Simplified Chinese Recording your shell, AI coding and editor activity is free. ShellTime Pro ($14.99 USD/month or $149.99 USD/year) unlocks your full history and all-time stats, the unlimited Session and Prompt Inspector, monthly AI reports, usage-reset alerts and webhooks, data export, dotfiles and shell aliases, virtual invoices, and 800 AI credits a month. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
The Architect SSH
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The models are good at typing. You are the one who knows what should be built. The Architect gives you one console for every harness you already run β attached over SSH, inside the screen and tmux sessions you already keep alive. No orchestration layer. No opinion about your workflow. Just direct hands on every agent you have running, from whichever device is in front of you. WHO IT IS FOR This is not an onboarding funnel with a terminal theme. It assumes you already run multiple harnesses and multiple models across real machines, and that your only missing piece is a decent way to reach them all from wherever you happen to be. It attaches to what you have already built and gets out of the way. Requires SSH, a session manager you already use (tmux or screen), and a harness β Claude Code, Codex, Aider, OpenCode, or the one you wrote yourself. A REAL TERMINAL Truecolor, correct UTF-8, live PTY resize, mouse reporting, and the Kitty keyboard protocol. On a touchscreen, swipe left or right to move between your screen and tmux windows. On desktop the same move is on buttons, so drag-to-select keeps working. EVERY SESSION AT A GLANCE One line per job: project, last output, elapsed time. When a session rings the terminal bell the badge lights and decays over sixty seconds β so you can tell an agent that wants you now from one that wanted you an hour ago, without opening anything. EXACT-NAME ATTACH screen and tmux matches session names by prefix, which is how people end up typing into the wrong agent. The Architect matches the name exactly and attaches by pid-qualified id, or creates fresh. It never guesses. THE SESSION OUTLIVES THE APP Sessions live on the remote host, not in the client. Close the app, lose signal, swap devices β the run keeps going and you reattach to it exactly where it is. SAME CONSOLE, EVERY SCREEN Not a stripped-down companion app on the phone and a real one on the desktop. The same terminal engine everywhere β the navigation adapts, the capability does not. CREDENTIALS STAY ON YOUR DEVICE SSH keys and passwords are held in the platform's secure storage, never in the app database and never on our servers. There is no account to create and nothing to sign in to. The app can generate a device identity keypair and install its public key on a host for you, so you can move off password auth without leaving the app. FREE AND PRO The free tier is one agent and one project, forever, with no account. Pro removes the limits β unlimited agents and projects β as a single one-time purchase. No subscription.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: ShellTime.xyz at weekly against The Architect SSH's monthly. The Architect SSH's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 26.2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. ShellTime.xyz sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month and The Architect SSH sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
ShellTime.xyz ships an update weekly, The Architect SSH monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ShellTime.xyz | The Architect SSH |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Weekly β better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac β better |
| Requires iOS | 26.2 | 13.0 β better |
| Further details β not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | δΉ θ΄Ί | RMR Solutions LLC |
In-app purchases
ShellTime.xyz
- ShellTime Pro Monthly$7.991 Month
- ShellTime Pro Yearly$79.991 Year
- 500 AI Credits$5.99
The Architect SSH
- The Architect SSH Pro$19.99
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