Comparison

tunlr vs DevSnoop

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

Head to head
About

tunlr

This app provides a full SSH terminal experience on your mobile device. It offers advanced features like biometric-protected keys, tmux session management, and on-device voice dictation for commands. Designed for developers and sysadmins, it prioritizes privacy with no accounts or tracking.

Highlights
  • Full PTY terminal emulation
  • xterm-256color support
  • Biometric-protected keys
  • Tmux session attach
  • On-device voice dictation
  • Customizable keyboard toolbar
  • 24 color themes
Features
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SSH terminal in your pocket. Full xterm-256color emulation, biometric-protected keys, tmux session attach, and on-device voice dictation. No accounts, no tracking — everything stays on your device. tunlr is built for developers, sysadmins, and DevOps engineers who need real terminal access on iPhone and iPad. — TERMINAL — Full PTY terminal emulation powered by SwiftTerm. xterm-256color support. Configurable scrollback buffer up to 50,000 lines. Optional Metal GPU-accelerated rendering. Works in portrait and landscape on both iPhone and iPad. — TMUX SESSIONS — Pick up right where you left off. After connecting, tunlr lists the tmux sessions running on the server: attach to one, start a new one, or set a connection to always open the same session. When you return to the app, tunlr reconnects and re-attaches to the same session. Experimental support for zmx and agterm sessions. — AUTHENTICATION — Three ways to authenticate, all protected by Face ID or Touch ID: Secure Enclave keys — generate a P-256 ECDSA key that never leaves your device's Secure Enclave. The private key is inaccessible even to the app itself. Imported keys — bring your own Ed25519, ECDSA, or RSA keys. Stored in the iOS Keychain with biometric protection. Passwords — stored in the Keychain, never in plain text. — HOST VERIFICATION — Trust-on-first-use (TOFU) host key verification. tunlr saves the server fingerprint on first connection and warns you if it ever changes. Import fingerprints by scanning a QR code to skip the initial trust step. — VOICE INPUT — Dictate terminal commands with on-device speech recognition powered by WhisperKit. All audio processing happens on your device — nothing is sent to any server. — KEYBOARD TOOLBAR — Customizable keyboard toolbar with sticky modifier keys. Shortcut packs for Shell, Tmux, Vim, and Claude Code workflows. Save your own favorites. — CONNECTIONS — Save server profiles with hostname, port, username, and authentication method. Connect with a single tap. Auto-reconnect restores your session when you return to the app, with configurable keepalive intervals. — APPEARANCE — 24 color themes, dark and light: Default Dark, Solarized Dark, Solarized Light, Dracula, Nord, Monokai, One Dark, One Light, GitHub Dark, GitHub Light, Gruvbox Dark, Gruvbox Light, Catppuccin Mocha, Catppuccin Latte, Tokyo Night, Tokyo Night Day, Rosé Pine, Rosé Pine Dawn, Everforest Dark, Ayu Mirage, Night Owl, Tomorrow Night, Synthwave, and Kanagawa. Four monospace fonts and adjustable font size. — PRIVACY — No accounts. No analytics. No tracking. No data collection. Everything runs on your device. SSH connections go directly to your servers — tunlr never contacts any third-party service.

About

DevSnoop

A mobile web browser with integrated developer tools. Inspect pages, debug sites, and analyze network requests directly on your iPhone or iPad without needing a laptop. Features include a live console, network interceptor, DOM inspector, and storage editor.

Highlights
  • Live console log stream with filtering
  • Network request interception and analysis
  • DOM tree inspection and highlighting
  • Storage (local, session, cookies) editing
  • Private browsing mode
  • Tab session restoration
  • Export network requests as HAR file
Features
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DevSnoop is a web browser with a full developer tools panel built in, for iPhone and iPad. Build a page, load it in DevSnoop, and inspect it right there — no laptop, no cable, no remote debugging setup. DevSnoop's tools work only on pages you open inside DevSnoop, on your own device. WHAT'S INSIDE Console — Live log stream with filter chips for error / warn / info, keyword search, and a JavaScript REPL for evaluating expressions against the page you're testing. Errors, warnings and logs carry the complete stack trace — tap to expand it, just like a desktop console. Download the whole log buffer to a file in one tap. Smart-quote autocorrect is off, so code runs exactly as you typed it. Network — See every request your page makes. fetch() and XMLHttpRequest calls show full headers and bodies; static resources (CSS, scripts, images, fonts, manifest, the main document) are surfaced via the Resource Timing API. WebSocket connections appear too, with a live log of sent and received frames. Tap a row to load its response body on demand, copy it as a cURL command or a fetch() call to reproduce outside the app, or export the session as a standard HAR file you can open in Chrome or Firefox DevTools. Elements — Walk the live DOM tree, expand nested elements, and tap to highlight a node on the rendered page. Useful for tracking down a stray z-index or unexpected CSS inheritance. Storage — Inspect and edit local storage, session storage and cookies for the page you're testing, including the full cookie attribute set (domain, path, expiry, Secure, HttpOnly, SameSite). Edit a value, refresh, and watch how your page responds. BROWSER ESSENTIALS — Tabs, with private tabs that use a non-persistent WebKit data store: cookies and cache stay in memory and are discarded when the tab closes. — Tab session restoration on next launch. — Bookmarks, browsing history, and an editable Quick Access grid (long-press a tile to rename, change the URL, or delete it). — Search engine choice: Google, DuckDuckGo or Bing. — Clear browsing data selectively — history, cookies and site data, or cache. — Support for the modern web APIs your pages expect: getUserMedia (camera and microphone), navigator.geolocation, and WebKit-backed media playback. — Pull-to-refresh, offline error pages, and a mail-app chooser so links open where you want them. PRIVACY — Your browsing history, bookmarks, open tabs and Quick Access shortcuts are stored only on your device. — No accounts, no advertising SDKs, no selling of your data. — Product analytics are strictly opt-in: you're asked once on first launch, nothing is collected until you agree, the data is anonymous (no account, no URLs, no page content), and you can change your choice anytime in Settings. — Crash reports go to Sentry for stability monitoring and never include URLs, page content or personal data. — Full privacy policy: devsnoop.app DevSnoop is a development and testing tool. Its inspector is intended for debugging and testing your own web pages, for learning how the web platform works, and for accessibility and QA checks on sites you are responsible for. Built for the developer checking a layout fix on a real iPhone, the QA engineer running through a release candidate on a test device, the student learning how the DOM and the network stack fit together — and anyone who has wished mobile Safari had a real DevTools panel.

Screenshots

tunlr4 screens
DevSnoop4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: DevSnoop at every 5 days against tunlr's every 5 weeks. On price, review sentiment, 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

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

tunlr ships an update every 5 weeks, DevSnoop every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
tunlr versus DevSnoop: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametertunlrDevSnoop
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.4 (9 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—9 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.016.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB7 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperAnastasiia TrofimovaNitin Yadav

Customer experience

tunlr

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

DevSnoop

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

tunlr

No in-app purchases

None

DevSnoop

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is tunlr free?
tunlr is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is DevSnoop free?
DevSnoop is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do tunlr or DevSnoop have ads?
Neither tunlr nor DevSnoop shows ads.
Which is updated more often, tunlr or DevSnoop?
tunlr ships an update every 5 weeks, and DevSnoop every 5 days. Most recently, tunlr was updated on November 9, 2026 and DevSnoop on November 13, 2026.

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