Comparison

SuperDuper Terminal vs Vibe42

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ€” 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 โ€ข Full SSH terminal with a real PTY โ€” colours, cursor keys, everything a shell expects โ€ข 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 โ€ข Multiple servers and multiple live sessions, switchable from a tab strip โ€ข A keyboard row built for the command line: Esc, Ctrl, Tab, arrows, pipe and slash โ€” the keys iOS hides from you โ€ข Ed25519, ECDSA and RSA keys generated on device and stored in the Keychain, protected by Face ID โ€ข 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 โ€” 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

Vibe42

Features
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Vibe42 is your pocket terminal-first workspace. Connect your phone directly to your computer to run coding agents, review diffs, and control terminals on the go โ€” zero config, zero lock-in. Pair once, and your Mac, Linux box or work desktop is a tap away: real terminals, your files, your tools - running where they belong. WHAT YOU GET - Real terminals, not a toy shell. Full PTY, 256 colours, and sessions that keep running when you close the app or lose signal. - Pick up where you left off. Sessions survive network changes, backgrounding and device switches: start on your laptop, continue on your phone. - Your files at hand. Browse, preview and edit the files on your computer. - Built for touch keyboards. A command bar, arrow and modifier keys, and gestures that make a terminal genuinely usable on a phone. - Many computers, one app. Group them into workspaces and jump between them. SECURITY - End-to-end encrypted. Traffic is encrypted between your device and your computer; our network can route packets but cannot read them. - Pairing, not passwords. Every device is authorized explicitly and can be revoked from any other device at any time. - Your work stays yours. We do not store your terminal output, your files or your commands, and we never use them to train models. HOW IT WORKS Install the free Vibe42 companion on the computer you want to reach, pair this device once, and you are connected. Direct peer-to-peer where the network allows it, relayed when it does not - the app switches automatically. Terms of Service: https://vibe42.ai/terms Privacy Policy: https://vibe42.ai/privacy

Screenshots

SuperDuper Terminal2 screens
Vibe424 screens

Verdict

The call

SuperDuper Terminal and Vibe42 are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท 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 Vibe42: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSuperDuper TerminalVibe42
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyโ€”Daily
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.017.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size8 MB91 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRustam SALAVATOVHostbee

In-app purchases

None

SuperDuper Terminal

No in-app purchases

None

Vibe42

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SuperDuper Terminal free?
SuperDuper Terminal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Vibe42 free?
Vibe42 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do SuperDuper Terminal or Vibe42 have ads?
Neither SuperDuper Terminal nor Vibe42 shows ads.

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