Comparison

sshido vs Kanna Mobile

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

Head to head
About

sshido

Features
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sshido is a fast, private SSH terminal for iPhone and iPad, built for running AI coding agents on your own servers from your phone. AGENT MODE • Ask once in a chat. An orchestrator plans the task, runs subagents in Podman on your host, and checks their work before it answers. • Every agent keeps a work record with its goal, evidence and a pass or fail verdict. • Agents can browse websites, use a desktop, and send screenshots, videos and files back to the chat. • Use frontier models (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Grok) with your own subscriptions, or a local model you run yourself. • Run many chats at once, and give agents read-only access to the host folders you choose. TERMINAL • Full xterm-256color terminal, Metal-rendered for smooth scrolling even on heavy output. • tmux sessions survive reconnects, network drops and app switches. Sessions are named after tmux, and you can rename them. • A customizable shortcut bar, smart copy of URLs and output, a one-tap sign-in helper, and image upload into your session. NOTIFICATIONS • Get an alert the moment an agent finishes or needs your input. Hosts and sessions turn amber when Claude is waiting. • Alerts go through the hosted relay at push.sshido.com. Its source is public, and it never stores the alert text. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Ed25519 and RSA keys are stored in the iOS Keychain. A server's host key is remembered on first connect and checked every time after. • Your keys and terminal content only travel to your own server. Crash reports leave out terminal content and credentials, and you can turn them off in Settings. Bring your own server over SSH.

About

Kanna Mobile

Features
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Kanna Mobile is a companion for the Kanna desktop app for macOS. It lets you follow and steer coding-agent tasks from your iPhone while the work runs on your Mac. Kanna Mobile requires a Mac running the Kanna desktop app. It is not a standalone coding-agent host, and it does not run agents on your phone. WHAT YOU CAN DO • See every task across your repositories, grouped by status and activity • Open a task and watch its terminal and agent output stream live • Send follow-up instructions when an agent stops and asks a question • Start new tasks against a repository and agent of your choosing • Review diffs and file contents an agent has touched • Get a notification when a task needs you TWO WAYS TO CONNECT On your local network, pair directly with your Mac by scanning a QR code. No account, no sign-up, nothing leaves your network. Away from home, cloud access relays the connection between your phone and your Mac. Cloud access needs a Kanna account and is currently invite-only — request one at kanna.build/support. BUILT FOR PEOPLE RUNNING SEVERAL AGENTS Kanna gives every task its own git worktree, branch, and agent session, then moves it through a workflow: implement, review, pull request. Kanna Mobile is the window into that from wherever you ff before lunch, an agent stuck on a question, a reviewyou want to read on the train. Kanna works with the coding-agent CLIs you already have installed on your Mac. A NOTE ON WHAT YOU'LL SEE Kanna is a developer tool. It displays repository names, branch names, task prompts, and raw terminal output from your own machine. Requires the Kanna desktop app for macOS, available at kanna.build.

Screenshots

sshido4 screens
Kanna Mobile3 screens

Verdict

The call

sshido and Kanna Mobile 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 Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

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

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
sshido versus Kanna Mobile: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametersshidoKanna Mobile
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB42 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJUNGHYUN SONTampopo LLC

In-app purchases

None

sshido

No in-app purchases

None

Kanna Mobile

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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