Comparison

Pulzor vs dotMux easy SSH with tmux

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

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Pulzor

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Monitor your websites, APIs and servers directly from your iPhone. Get alerted when things go down, understand what's happening and act immediately with real tools like SSH, automation and Auto-Recovery. No accounts, no external servers, no need for a computer. Pulzor is built on a simple idea: monitoring should give you visibility, context and the ability to respond, without compromising your privacy. Your data lives on your device and in your personal iCloud. It doesn't pass through third-party servers. It's yours. MONITOR WHAT MATTERS Pulzor monitors websites, endpoints, APIs, TCP ports, services, SSL certificates, domains and DNS. Check your infrastructure status in the background and get notified when it detects downtime, degradation or recovery. Includes HTTP, TCP and API monitoring with smart retries to reduce false alarms, complete SSL verification and advance warnings before certificates or domains expire. You can also watch multiple TCP services with preset profiles and custom ports. UNDERSTAND WHAT'S HAPPENING It's not just about telling you something failed. Pulzor helps you diagnose it. Each monitor gathers real-time status, event history, recent activity, response metrics, incidents, heatmaps and useful technical data to understand the real health of your service. The overall summary lets you see uptime, latency, activity, security alerts and trends in one view. So you know what happened, when it started, how it's evolving and where to look before you intervene. TAKE ACTION FROM YOUR IPHONE Pulzor doesn't just detect problems. It lets you respond to them. Includes an integrated SSH terminal to run remote commands, review logs, restart services, check processes, validate certificates or intervene on your infrastructure when something fails. You can also automate responses with Auto-Recovery and scheduled tasks, so certain issues resolve themselves even when you're not watching. It's monitoring with real action capability. ALERTS THAT MATTER Get downtime, degradation and recovery alerts instantly. Customize sounds, monitors and behavior for each notification. Track incidents in real time with Live Activities on your lock screen, widgets and Apple Watch. Pulzor is designed to alert you when it really matters, not to fill you with noise. DNS, SSL AND DOMAINS UNDER CONTROL Check DNS records, detect changes, validate important configurations and monitor SSL certificates and domains before they become a problem. If something changes in your public infrastructure, you'll know. REAL API MONITORING Pulzor doesn't stop at simply checking if APIs respond. You can monitor APIs with different HTTP methods, authentication, custom headers, body, validations and advanced checks to ensure the response is correct, not just that it exists. BEYOND THE PUBLIC Pulzor can also work with private services, internal networks and infrastructure that other external tools can't easily reach. When you need to check something beyond what's visible from the Internet, Pulzor is ready for it. ACROSS THE ENTIRE APPLE ECOSYSTEM iPhone, Apple Watch, widgets, Live Activities and Siri Shortcuts. All your infrastructure accessible from every important surface in the Apple ecosystem. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Privacy isn't an added feature. It's part of the product. No accounts. No tracking. No third-party SDKs. No external servers for your data. Credentials protected in Apple Keychain. Encrypted backups. No compromises. Pulzor gives you monitoring, alerts, diagnosis and real action from your iPhone, with the privacy your infrastructure deserves. Apple Standard Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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dotMux easy SSH with tmux

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Stop fighting tmux on a touchscreen. dotMux speaks tmux control mode natively and rebuilds your remote workspace as real iOS UI โ€” the way iTerm2 does on the Mac. Windows and panes become native tabs and views you drive by touch. NATIVE tmux, NOT raw text - Remote tmux windows become native tabs. - Every pane becomes a native view โ€” focused full-screen on iPhone, true side-by-side splits on iPad. - Split, resize, and close panes from the app โ€” pane menu, long-press, drag the divider, or keyboard shortcuts. - The window and pane pickers render your real terminals, live: pick a window by what's in it, not by its name. - Select and copy text with native handles; tap links in the terminal to open them. - If a host has no tmux, dotMux falls back gracefully to a plain terminal. EVERY HOST AT ONCE - Connect to as many hosts as you like at once. Leaving a terminal doesn't disconnect it โ€” work keeps running on every host you have open. - The host list is the connection switcher: live hosts marked where you already look, one tap away. - Group hosts into folders; each folder shows what's connected inside it. - Forward a remote port over SSH and open your server's web UI inside dotMux. REAL SSH, DONE RIGHT - Password and public-key authentication. - Import your ed25519 or ECDSA (P-256) keys by paste or from Files โ€” passphrase-protected keys included. - Or generate a key in the Secure Enclave: non-exportable, signed in-chip, never leaving the device. - Review and forget trusted host keys. - Connect directly from your device to your own servers. No middleman, no developer backend. PICK UP WHERE YOU LEFT OFF - The session picker lists every tmux session on the host and marks the ones already attached. - Switch sessions in place, or create named ones on the fly. - iOS suspended the app? Jobs keep running on the server, and dotMux re-attaches and rebuilds your tabs and panes when you come back. A KEYBOARD BUILT FOR TERMINALS - A helper bar with the keys terminals actually need: Esc, Ctrl, Tab and more. - Fully customizable: add, remove, and reorder every key โ€” F-keys, Ctrl combos, arrows, even your own text. - Snippets: save commands globally or per host and run them again without typing them. - A multi-line composer for drafting long commands and agent prompts, sent in one go. - A drag-pad arrow joystick with press-and-hold repeat, sticky modifiers, and a hide-to-floating-dock control when you want the screen back. - Paste images from your clipboard โ€” annotate them first if you like; dotMux uploads them and pastes the path (built for Claude Code). MAKE IT YOURS - Terminal fonts: JetBrains Mono, Fira Code, Hack, IBM Plex Mono and more. - Color themes with live preview: Dracula, Nord, Solarized, Gruvbox, Tokyo Night and more โ€” or import any Ghostty or iTerm2 theme from a file or URL. - Pinch to zoom with a live cols ร— rows readout; keep the screen awake while connected. AUTOMATE IT - Shortcuts support: connect to a host, send a command, read the output back. Unattended runs, enabled per credential, for automations that can't stop to ask for Face ID. SECURITY THAT STAYS ON YOUR DEVICE - Face ID app-lock, plus a second Face ID gate per credential, with a short configurable grace period. - Credentials live in the Keychain and Secure Enclave, bound to this device โ€” never synced to iCloud, never sent anywhere. - A privacy cover hides the terminal in the app switcher. - dotMux collects no data. No analytics, no tracking, no ads, no account, no sign-up. MADE FOR iPad TOO - One universal app for iPhone and iPad. - Open hosts side by side in multiple windows; built for hardware keyboard and trackpad. PRICING - Free: save and connect to one host, fully featured. - Unlimited Hosts: a one-time $1.99 purchase to save as many servers as you like. No subscription. Restore Purchases supported. Note: RSA keys are not supported (modern OpenSSH disables the SHA-1 ssh-rsa signature). Use ed25519, ECDSA (P-256), or a Secure Enclave key.

Screenshots

Pulzor4 screens
dotMux easy SSH with tmux4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Pulzor at 18.6 against dotMux easy SSH with tmux's 26.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

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. Pulzor sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and dotMux easy SSH with tmux sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
Pulzor versus dotMux easy SSH with tmux: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPulzordotMux easy SSH with tmux
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyโ€”Every 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch โ€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.6 โ€” better26.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size32 MB30 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAYALNET STUDIO S.LFree Tomorrow

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Pulzor

Subscriptions6
  • Pulzor+$3.991 Month
  • Pulzor+ Pro$8.991 Month
  • Pulzor+ Ultimate$12.991 Month
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  • Pulzor+$44.991 Year
  • Pulzor+ Pro$89.991 Year
  • Pulzor+ Ultimate$129.991 Year
1 purchases

dotMux easy SSH with tmux

One-time1
  • dotMux โ€” Unlimited Hosts$1.99

Questions

Is Pulzor free?
Pulzor is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is dotMux easy SSH with tmux free?
dotMux easy SSH with tmux is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Pulzor or dotMux easy SSH with tmux have ads?
Neither Pulzor nor dotMux easy SSH with tmux shows ads.

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