Tactic Remote vs SSH Term X
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tactic Remote
Control your AI coding agents remotely from your iPhone or iPad. Continue conversations, monitor terminal output, inspect files, and respond to tasks without being at your desk. Works with various AI models on compatible computers.
- Remote AI coding agent control
- Live terminal monitoring
- File inspection and browsing
- Project and session management
- End-to-end encrypted remote access
- Voice input and custom shortcuts
- Cross-platform support (iOS, Web)
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Your AI coding agents, within reach. Tactic Remote connects your iPhone and iPad to your own computer so you can continue conversations, follow terminal output, inspect files, and respond when a task needs you. Your computer keeps working. You don't have to stay at your desk. Works with Claude Code, Codex, Amp, and Droid on compatible Mac, Linux, and Windows hosts. CHAT AND LIVE TERMINAL Follow streaming replies, code, and tool results in chat, or open the native terminal to enter commands and watch output. Choose an agent when creating a conversation. Each conversation keeps its own agent and context; start another conversation to use a different agent. PROJECTS, FILES, AND SESSIONS Find work by project, switch sessions, browse source files, and inspect file activity and Git changes. Worktree support helps organize separate tasks in the same repository. REMOTE ACCESS AND TRUSTED DEVICES Connect directly on your local network or use Tactic Relay to reach a paired computer over the internet. Relay connections use application-layer end-to-end encryption, so the relay cannot read session content. You can also use a Cloudflare Tunnel you configure. Sign in to your Tactic account to manage trusted devices and bound hosts, add Passkeys, and revoke device access. Your computer and companion server must stay running for remote access. VOICE, SHORTCUTS, AND ALERTS Dictate with Apple Speech, on-device Whisper, or optional cloud speech. Reuse commands and prompts, and receive notifications when work finishes or needs your attention. USAGE AT A GLANCE Where supported, check usage and plan limits for the agent account signed in on your computer. The companion server reads this data locally; availability depends on the agent and account. MADE FOR IPHONE AND IPAD Check in and reply from iPhone, or use iPad sidebars, expanded panels, and keyboard shortcuts. The interface supports English, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, German, French, and Spanish. IPHONE, IPAD, AND THE WEB Alongside the native app, use a browser to access your own development environment, view sessions, browse files, and use the terminal. A new browser must complete secure pairing before its first connection. Your computer and companion server must stay running. FREE AND PRO The free tier includes 2 saved computers, 2 sessions, 5 custom snippets, and 5 minutes of cloud speech per month. Pro unlocks unlimited computers, sessions, and snippets, plus file upload and editing, the full Shell keyboard, custom quick prompts, all themes, and 35 minutes of cloud speech per month. Available through monthly or annual subscriptions, or a one-time Lifetime purchase. YOUR ENVIRONMENT, YOUR CONTROL Install the companion server and a supported coding agent on your computer, then sign in to and configure the agent. Tactic Remote does not provide an AI model or third-party agent account. Your computer continues to manage your projects, terminal processes, and agent credentials. Optional product analytics excludes code, prompts, terminal output, file paths, and project names, and can be disabled in Settings. Audio is uploaded only when you choose cloud speech. Protect the app with Face ID or Touch ID. Privacy Policy: https://tacticremote.com/privacy Terms of Service: https://tacticremote.com/terms
SSH Term X
Manage and interact with AI agents directly from your phone. This app allows you to monitor agent status, provide input, and receive notifications, even when the app is closed. It supports various AI harnesses and models, ensuring your conversations stay private on your host.
- AI agent status monitoring
- On-the-spot input and approval
- Support for various AI harnesses and models
- Kept shells for uninterrupted sessions
- CJK input mode for accurate composition
- Push notifications for agent updates
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Your phone is the command center for your AI agents. Any harness, any model, any language. Japanese, Korean, and Chinese input won't break. CONNECTING IS NOT ENOUGH Agents run for a long time and stop to wait for approval or input. SSH Term lists the agents of supported harnesses on a card for each saved host, with their state: Working, Waiting for input, or Needs approval. See which one is waiting for what, and answer it on the spot. NOT LOCKED TO A HARNESS OR A MODEL Start any agent that runs in a terminal and give it instructions. Models and providers (API keys, Bedrock, and so on) stay as configured on your host. Agents run on your own host, and their conversations stay there instead of going through a third-party service. SUPPORTED HARNESSES The status list and chat view support Claude Code, Codex, Oh My Pi, Pi, and Copilot CLI. YOUR PHONE IS THE COMMAND CENTER Close the app and your agents keep running on the host (kept shells). Reopen it and the tab comes back with the output you missed. Approval requests, input waits, and finished turns reach you as push notifications through the free ntfy app, even with SSH Term closed (Slack, Discord, and Telegram also work). Send the next instruction to a running agent from the chat view. ANY LANGUAGE Instructions to an agent are prose in your own words. Japanese, Korean, and Chinese text often breaks in SSH apps; in SSH Term's IME mode it doesn't break mid-composition, so you can write long, detailed instructions in your own language. ONE-TIME PURCHASE. FEATURES DON'T DISAPPEAR LATER No account and no license server, so features don't disappear later. Every feature is included in the price; the only in-app purchase is an optional way to support development. No subscription, no ads, no telemetry. Your credentials stay on your device. ---------- AGENT LIST AND CHAT VIEW (BETA) Prepare a host once, and agents of supported harnesses started in a PC terminal show up on your phone too. Read a running conversation as a chat and reply or approve from there; what you send never mixes with text half-typed on the PC. KEPT SHELLS (NO TMUX, NO MOSH NEEDED) When the connection drops, the shell stays on the host. Switching between Wi-Fi and mobile data or locking the screen won't stop your work. On reconnect the tab reattaches by itself and shows what you missed. The host only needs a small helper, stagent, which the app installs to ~/.ssh-term/agent after verifying its sha256 (Linux, macOS, and Windows hosts). AI AGENT SESSIONS Resume conversations of supported harnesses from a list, in a kept shell, tmux, zellij, screen, or herdr. CJK INPUT (IME MODE) Compose text in the input box and send it to the terminal in one go; characters still being composed never leak out as commands. ON THE BIG SCREEN OF AN IPAD OR AN OPEN IPHONE DUO Two tabs side by side, a home screen with each host's agent cards, a sidebar of open tabs with those waiting for approval first, and a two-pane filer. With a hardware keyboard, type just like on a PC. Split View works too. SFTP FILE BROWSER AND PREVIEW Check files an agent created or edited without leaving the terminal. Sort, rename, delete, and bookmark folders per host. Syntax-highlighted preview. AUTO-RECONNECT, MULTI-TAB Reconnects automatically when the network drops (up to 3 attempts). Run several connections side by side in tabs. Works over Tailscale SSH. INPUT ASSIST TOOLBAR One-tap Ctrl+C, Tab, Escape, arrow keys, F1–F12, Home/End/PageUp/PageDown, plus your own custom keys and commands. AUTH, KEYS, THEMES Password, public key, and keyboard-interactive auth. Generate Ed25519 or RSA keys in the app and copy the public key with one tap. Themes such as Dracula, Nord, and Tokyo Night; fonts such as Fira Code and JetBrains Mono, plus CJK fonts. SECURITY - Credentials stored encrypted on the device - Host key verification (pinned on first connection) - Lock the app with a PIN, Face ID, or Touch ID - No cloud sync, no telemetry, no account required
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Tactic Remote at Free against SSH Term X's $4.99. SSH Term X's advantage is review sentiment (83% vs 50%) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 weeks). On rating, ratings volume, 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
Tactic Remote is free to download; SSH Term X costs $4.99 up front. Tactic Remote sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and SSH Term X sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Tactic Remote against 5.0 for SSH Term X. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 50% of Tactic Remote's written reviews are positive against 83% of SSH Term X's.
Tactic Remote ships an update every 2 weeks, SSH Term X every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Tactic Remote | SSH Term X |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 84 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shanghai TacticSpace Technology Co., Ltd. | Haga Kunihiko |
Customer experience
Tactic Remote
SSH Term X
In-app purchases
Tactic Remote
- Tactic Remote Pro (Monthly)3 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Tactic Remote Pro (Yearly)7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Tactic Remote Pro (Lifetime)$39.99
SSH Term X
- Support Development$2.99
- Support Development$5.99
- Support Development$19.99
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- Support Development$29.99
- Support Development$59.99









