Comparison

CC Pocket vs SSH Term X

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

Head to head
About

CC Pocket

Control AI coding agents from your mobile device. Guide their work, approve actions, and review code changes on your phone or tablet. Self-host your projects for complete privacy and control.

Highlights
  • AI coding agent control
  • Approve code changes
  • Self-hosted Bridge Server
  • Project file exploration
  • Git review and actions
  • Offline message queuing
  • Markdown and voice prompts
Features
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Your agents. In your pocket. CC Pocket brings Codex and Claude to a chat UI made for your phone. Start a task, approve the next step, and review the result. Your agents run on your own computer; you can pick up the same work on another device. CHAT FIRST Each session is a room for prompts, replies, approvals, and questions. Send images, use voice input, or write with Markdown. Handle waiting approvals from the session list. CONTINUE ACROSS DEVICES Move between your phone, tablet, and Mac. Resume sessions from the CLI or app. On larger screens, keep chat, project files, and Git changes side by side. Native macOS is available; Linux and Windows desktop builds are experimental. KEEP YOUR PLACE ON WEAK NETWORKS Outgoing messages wait while you are offline and resend after reconnecting. Missed streaming updates are recovered. New requests and approvals need a connection to the Bridge Server. CREATE AND PREVIEW Generate images with Codex Imagegen and open the results in chat. Play video and audio files without leaving the app. REVIEW AND SHIP Browse project files, inspect code and image diffs, stage changes, commit, push, or revert. Keep parallel tasks separate with git worktrees. YOUR OWN MACHINES Run the Bridge Server on your Mac, Linux, or Windows computer. Connect by QR code or saved host. Tailscale supports access away from your local network, and SSH lets you manage the Bridge remotely. GET STARTED 1. Install Node.js 20.18.1 or later and Codex or Claude on your computer. 2. Run: npx @ccpocket/bridge@latest 3. Scan the QR code in CC Pocket and choose a project. A reachable Bridge Server and a configured agent account are required. CC Pocket is free to use, with optional Supporter purchases. Agent service fees are separate. CC Pocket is open source and is not affiliated with Anthropic or OpenAI. https://github.com/K9i-0/ccpocket TERMS OF USE https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

Screenshots

CC Pocket4 screens
SSH Term X4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: CC Pocket at Free against SSH Term X's $4.99. CC Pocket also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 83%) and ratings volume (7 vs 1). On rating, update cadence, 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

CC Pocket is free to download; SSH Term X costs $4.99 up front. CC Pocket sells 5 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for CC Pocket against 5.0 for SSH Term X. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CC Pocket has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of CC Pocket's written reviews are positive against 83% of SSH Term X's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CC Pocket ships an update every 4 days, SSH Term X every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
CC Pocket versus SSH Term X: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCC PocketSSH Term X
PriceFree — better$4.99
Rating5.0 (7 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better83.3% of reviews
Number of ratings7 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size108 MB84 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKota HayashiHaga Kunihiko

Customer experience

CC Pocket

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

SSH Term X

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%

In-app purchases

5 purchases

CC Pocket

Subscriptions2
  • Supporter Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Supporter Monthly Plus$9.991 Month
One-time3
  • Snack Support$2.99
  • Drink Support$4.99
  • Lunch Support$9.99
5 purchases

SSH Term X

One-time5
  • Support Development$2.99
  • Support Development$5.99
  • Support Development$19.99
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  • Support Development$29.99
  • Support Development$59.99

Questions

Is CC Pocket free?
CC Pocket is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SSH Term X free?
SSH Term X costs $4.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, CC Pocket or SSH Term X?
CC Pocket and SSH Term X are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 7 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do CC Pocket or SSH Term X have ads?
Neither CC Pocket nor SSH Term X shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CC Pocket or SSH Term X?
CC Pocket ships an update every 4 days, and SSH Term X every 2 days. Most recently, CC Pocket was updated on October 31, 2026 and SSH Term X on October 31, 2026.

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