Comparison

Bonsai³ vs Outpost

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

Head to head
About

Bonsai³

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Bonsai³ turns your GitHub contributions into a living voxel bonsai. Connect GitHub to grow a voxel bonsai from your recent contributions. Rotate and zoom the bonsai, choose its species and pot, and browse consecutive 90-day seasons to see how its form changes over time. Up to 12 seasons are kept in the history archive. Want a preview? Choose Look around first to view a fully grown bonsai and browse its seasons. No account or sign-in is required. Share any season as a postcard through Apple's system share sheet, or save it to your photo library. On iPhone and iPad, the Bonsai³ Widget keeps your current bonsai close at hand. GitHub authorization opens in Apple's secure browser session. Bonsai³ requests read-only profile access, stores the access token in the device Keychain, and uses GitHub's official GraphQL API. It never receives your GitHub password, email address, repository names, or repository content. Bonsai³ has no developer-operated server, analytics, ads, or tracking. The app and Widget share only the connected GitHub username, contribution snapshot, and bonsai data through Apple's private App Group storage. The Widget never receives the token or contacts GitHub. Bonsai³ is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by GitHub.

About

Outpost

This app provides a precise SSH terminal experience on mobile, ensuring your shell's appearance, including icons and special characters, is rendered correctly. It prioritizes security with iOS Keychain integration and offers features for efficient remote work, such as multiple server connections and a custom keyboard bar.

Highlights
  • Glyph-perfect rendering of terminal characters
  • Nerd Font icon and Powerline prompt support
  • Secure credential storage with Face ID
  • Multiple server connections with scrollback
  • Customizable keyboard bar for terminal keys
  • Font size, color themes, and cursor customization
Features
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Outpost is an SSH client built for one thing above all: rendering your terminal exactly right. If you've connected to a server from your phone and watched your setup fall apart - broken Powerline segments, missing Nerd Font icons, boxes where emoji should be, mangled box-drawing - Outpost is the fix. It's engineered around glyph correctness, so your shell looks the way it does on your desktop. Glyph-perfect rendering. Nerd Font icons, Powerline prompts, box-drawing, wide and ambiguous-width characters, combining marks, and emoji - all correct. Secure by design. Passwords and imported keys are stored in the iOS Keychain behind Face ID. Or generate a key that never leaves the device's Secure Enclave. Host keys are pinned on first connect, with a hard warning if one ever changes. Built for real work. Keep several servers open at once and switch with a tap - scrollback survives. A keyboard bar with the keys a terminal actually needs. Copy and paste, drag to scroll, and tap-to-click in mouse-aware TUIs. Run your own setup commands automatically on connect. Make it yours. Font size, colour themes, and cursor style. No account, no tracking, nothing to sign up for. Your credentials stay on your device.

Screenshots

Bonsai³3 screens
Outpost4 screens

Verdict

The call

Bonsai³ and Outpost are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Bonsai³ versus Outpost: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBonsai³Outpost
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequency—Daily
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB40 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSakino TomiuraMathew Taylor

In-app purchases

None

Bonsai³

No in-app purchases

None

Outpost

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bonsai³ free?
Bonsai³ is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Outpost free?
Outpost is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Bonsai³ or Outpost have ads?
Neither Bonsai³ nor Outpost shows ads.

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