Comparison

Moshi vs meshTerm SSH Client Tailscale

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Moshi

A mobile terminal app designed for AI coding agents, allowing you to monitor and control them remotely. Features voice commands, resilient network connections, and secure SSH key management.

Highlights
  • Remote AI agent monitoring
  • Voice-to-terminal commands
  • Mosh protocol for network resilience
  • Webhook task completion alerts
  • Biometric SSH key protection
  • Dedicated terminal keyboard
  • Session persistence
Features
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A mobile terminal designed for AI coding agents. Your coding agent runs on a server — you're not always at your desk. Moshi bridges that gap. BUILT FOR AI AGENTS Check on Claude Code from the couch. Nudge Codex from the coffee shop. Monitor Cursor, Windsurf, Copilot, or Aider from anywhere. Your agent doesn't sleep, and now neither does your access to it. TALK, DON'T TYPE Voice-to-terminal with on-device AI. Command your agent hands-free using Whisper speech recognition. No cloud, no latency — everything runs locally on your device. NEVER DROPS Powered by the Mosh protocol that survives network switches, sleep mode, and subway tunnels. Your session stays alive no matter what. GET NOTIFIED Webhook alerts when tasks complete. Start a long-running job, pocket your phone, and live your life. Get a push notification when it's done. FACE ID FOR SSH KEYS Biometric unlock for your SSH keys. Private keys stored securely in iOS Keychain, protected by Face ID or Touch ID. Never stored in the app. PROPER KEYBOARD A terminal keyboard built for real work. Ctrl, Esc, Tab, arrows, and Tmux shortcuts. Not an afterthought — designed for terminal power users. SESSION RESUME Sessions persist across app switches. Come back anytime and pick up where you left off. Your terminal state is always waiting. PRIVACY FIRST - SSH keys stored in iOS Keychain with biometric protection - Voice dictation runs entirely on-device - No passwords or keys transmitted to our servers - All terminal data stays on your device A terminal that picks up — and never hangs up. Privacy Policy: https://getmoshi.app/privacy Terms of Service: https://getmoshi.app/terms

About

meshTerm SSH Client Tailscale

A private SSH and SFTP client designed for engineers, featuring built-in Tailscale integration for secure connections. It offers persistent terminal sessions that sync across devices and a custom keyboard optimized for command-line use.

Highlights
  • Built-in Tailscale stack
  • Persistent terminal sessions
  • Customizable command-line keyboard
  • Predictive command suggestions
  • SSH and SFTP support
  • Multi-client named sessions
  • Privacy-focused design
Features
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meshTerm: your agents and servers, from your phone A fast, private SSH and SFTP client built around the coding agents you run on your own servers. Keep Claude, Codex and Gemini and any other supported agent working in herdr, see what needs you at a glance, and answer from your phone. Your sessions keep running when your phone does not, so your shell and scrollback are still there tomorrow. HERDR, BUILT IN herdr is the open-source workspace that keeps your coding agents running on your host whether or not your phone is connected, and meshTerm is built for it. herdr is free on your host: One unlimited session, run multiple agents, tabs, workspaces. You only need Pro to use herdr on more than one host. The herdr side of the Agents tab puts what needs you first, then every session on every host. Tap Review to read an agent's request and approve it from your phone, or open the terminal right at its pane. Set Up herdr checks a host, installs herdr in one tap, turns on notifications and starts your first session. TMUX, THE WAY TMUX MEANT IT On any host with tmux 3.2 or newer, meshTerm speaks tmux's control protocol. It knows every window and pane, sizes them to your screen, and reattaches to the exact session you left, at the size you left it, with the scrollback intact. A tmux page in the keyboard palette creates, splits, zooms, renames, resizes and closes windows and panes in a tap, and on iPad the panes of a window sit side by side with dividers you can drag. Nothing to install on your server. BUILT-IN TAILSCALE meshTerm has its own Tailscale stack, running entirely in the app, so there is no separate Tailscale app and no conflict with any other VPN. Sign in or add an auth key and your device joins your tailnet over WireGuard. Add a tailnet device as a host in one tap. Multiple profiles switch between work and personal tailnets. AGENT CHAT Run Claude Code, Codex and Gemini on your own servers from a native chat: streaming replies, approvals that stay pinned until you answer, plan mode, usage chips, slash commands and file attachments. Get notified when an agent needs you, and resume past chats. DOCKER AND PODMAN (Pro) Manage containers on any host you have added: containers, images, volumes and networks, Compose stacks, logs, exec and prune. Nothing to install and nothing to expose, just the docker or podman CLI already on your server, over SSH. A KEYBOARD BUILT FOR THE TERMINAL A palette of features, your own key groups and one-tap session switching. A predictive strip suggests commands from your shell history, and a pill takes you back to the live prompt in full-screen tools. FILES, FORWARDS, SECRETS Browse, upload and download files over SFTP with iOS Files integration. Local forwards and SOCKS5 proxies per host. A Snippet Vault and a one-tap macro bar, with secret values kept in the iOS Keychain behind Face ID. Secret Profiles (Pro) inject keys into a running session, and a hidden key is brokered only to the commands you allow, so an agent can use it without ever reading it. SSH KEYS, SEARCH, ACCESSIBILITY Generate Ed25519 or ECDSA keys on-device, import passphrase-protected keys and install public keys in one tap. Search scrollback, tag and filter hosts, and read the terminal with VoiceOver. Full Spanish throughout. PRIVACY BY DESIGN No analytics, no telemetry, no tracking SDKs. Credentials and keys live in the iOS Keychain, hardware-encrypted and device-only. Your terminal never routes through us. Agent alerts, if you turn them on, come through Apple Push Notification service (APNs) via our relay, over encrypted connections, and carry nothing that identifies you, your hosts or your work. meshTerm Pro One host, one live session and one agent are free, and herdr is unlimited on that host. Pro lifts those limits, so herdr works on every host in one view, and adds Docker and Podman, Secret Profiles, agent Resume and iCloud Sync, which keeps hosts, keys, macros and preferences on every device, end-to-end encrypted.

Screenshots

Moshi4 screens
meshTerm SSH Client Tailscale4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Moshi at 611 against meshTerm SSH Client Tailscale's 4. Moshi also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 9 days) and chart position (#5 vs unranked). meshTerm SSH Client Tailscale's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 75%). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Moshi sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and meshTerm SSH Client Tailscale sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Moshi against 4.8 for meshTerm SSH Client Tailscale. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Moshi has 611 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 75% of Moshi's written reviews are positive against 100% of meshTerm SSH Client Tailscale's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Moshi ships an update every 2 days, meshTerm SSH Client Tailscale every 9 days. Both last shipped on November 9, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Moshi versus meshTerm SSH Client Tailscale: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMoshimeshTerm SSH Client Tailscale
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (611 ratings)4.8 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews75.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings611 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
Best chart rank#5 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size92 MB82 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMoshi Tech Ltd.AG Applications Ltd

Customer experience

Moshi

All ratings607 ratings
Positive93.6%
Neutral1.2%
Negative5.3%
Written reviews190 reviews
Positive75.3%
Neutral7.4%
Negative17.4%

meshTerm SSH Client Tailscale

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Moshi

Subscriptions8
  • Moshi Founder Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Moshi Pioneer Monthly2 variants$4.991 Month
  • Moshi Pro Monthly$6.991 Month
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  • Moshi Pro Monthly$7.991 Month
  • Moshi Pro Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Moshi Founder Yearly$19.991 Year
  • Moshi Pro Yearly$69.991 Year
  • Moshi Pro Yearly$89.991 Year
One-time1
  • Moshi Pro Lifetime$249.00
2 purchases

meshTerm SSH Client Tailscale

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Pro Annual7 Days trial$12.991 Year

Questions

Is Moshi free?
Moshi is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is meshTerm SSH Client Tailscale free?
meshTerm SSH Client Tailscale is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Moshi or meshTerm SSH Client Tailscale?
meshTerm SSH Client Tailscale is rated higher. Moshi averages 4.7 out of 5 from 611 ratings, while meshTerm SSH Client Tailscale averages 4.8 from 4 ratings.
Do Moshi or meshTerm SSH Client Tailscale have ads?
Neither Moshi nor meshTerm SSH Client Tailscale shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Moshi or meshTerm SSH Client Tailscale?
Moshi ships an update every 2 days, and meshTerm SSH Client Tailscale every 9 days. Most recently, Moshi was updated on November 9, 2026 and meshTerm SSH Client Tailscale on November 9, 2026.

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