Comparison

SuperDuper Terminal vs Ground Control Chat

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

Head to head
About

SuperDuper Terminal

Features
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SuperDuper Terminal is a small, fast SSH client for iPhone, built for the way people actually work with a remote box from a phone: check on a long-running job, restart a service, answer a prompt from an agent that is still running. WHAT IT DOES β€’ Full SSH terminal with a real PTY β€” colours, cursor keys, everything a shell expects β€’ tmux sessions by default, so closing the app or losing signal does not kill your work; reconnect and you are exactly where you left off β€’ Multiple servers and multiple live sessions, switchable from a tab strip β€’ A keyboard row built for the command line: Esc, Ctrl, Tab, arrows, pipe and slash β€” the keys iOS hides from you β€’ Ed25519, ECDSA and RSA keys generated on device and stored in the Keychain, protected by Face ID β€’ Port forwarding for the times you need a remote port on your phone KEYS STAY ON THE DEVICE Private keys are generated on the iPhone and kept in the Keychain, guarded by Face ID or your passcode. They are never uploaded, never synced to us, and there is no account to create. The app talks to your servers and to nobody else β€” there is no analytics SDK and no backend of ours in the path. BUILT FOR WORKING WITH CODING AGENTS If you run Claude Code or a similar agent on a VPS, the terminal keeps the session alive under tmux and gives you a one-tap way to answer it from your phone. The accessory row includes shortcuts for the keys those tools ask for most. Open source: github.com/fortunto2/swift-terminal

About

Ground Control Chat

Features
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Every Claude Code session on your Mac becomes a pixel pilot on your phone. Ground Control shows your AI coding agents as unique little creatures marching on a neon city street. Cyan means working. Lavender means idle. Pink means one of them needs you. Tap a pilot to open its conversation. Read every reply as it streams in. Send new orders from the couch, the train, or the other side of the world, and watch your actual terminal on the Mac update live. SETUP IN ONE MINUTE Run one command on your Mac (npx @clastres/groundcontrol), scan the QR code it prints, done. No account. No signup. PRIVATE BY ARCHITECTURE Your pairing key is generated on your Mac and shared only through the QR code you scan. Everything travels end to end encrypted. Our relay routes sealed bytes and cannot read them. We store nothing. UNIQUE PILOTS Every session hatches its own creature, generated from its identity, with its own walk cycle. It keeps that face forever. Requires a Mac running Claude Code and the Ground Control daemon.

Screenshots

SuperDuper Terminal2 screens
Ground Control Chat4 screens

Verdict

The call

SuperDuper Terminal and Ground Control Chat are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters β€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them β€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
SuperDuper Terminal versus Ground Control Chat: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSuperDuper TerminalGround Control Chat
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyβ€”Weekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad β€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.017.0 β€” better
Further details β€” not scored
Size8 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRustam SALAVATOVLASTRES SANCHO CARLOS ANDRES

In-app purchases

None

SuperDuper Terminal

No in-app purchases

None

Ground Control Chat

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SuperDuper Terminal free?
SuperDuper Terminal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ground Control Chat free?
Ground Control Chat is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do SuperDuper Terminal or Ground Control Chat have ads?
Neither SuperDuper Terminal nor Ground Control Chat shows ads.

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