Comparison

Redock vs Multiplex

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

Head to head
About

Redock

Access your remote SSH sessions and continue tasks from anywhere. This tool streamlines your workflow with features like project shortcuts, AI coding agent integration, and native tmux support for seamless session management on your mobile device.

Highlights
  • Remote SSH/Mosh access
  • AI coding agent integration
  • Native tmux and herdr support
  • Project shortcuts and actions
  • Agent notifications
  • Customizable usage queries
Features
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When you are away from your desk, Redock helps you reconnect to your own SSH host, return to the right project check what is running, and send the next command or prompt without opening your laptop. - When to use it When you are outside, on the couch, or in bed, you can use your phone to check a remote session, steer a coding agent, or continue a task. Redock helps you reach the dev environment you already use and keep work moving. - Why it is different Projects and Actions reduce repeated typing and get you back to tasks faster. A dedicated Agent Chat View makes reading replies and sending prompts feel like chatting. Agent notifications track task progress; usage queries support custom providers and data sources. Native tmux and herdr support lets you resume sessions and manage herdr workspaces visually. Agent TUI support brings smooth scrolling, CJK input, and voice input. - How to start Add a regular SSH host, choose your project context, and create shortcuts for commands you run often. From there, Redock becomes a faster way to return to your workflow from mobile. - Works with AI coding agents Redock works well with terminal based AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode. But it is not a hosted cloud IDE or a standalone AI coding app. Your code, credentials, and commands stay in the environment you configure. Terms of Use: https://redock.dev/terms

About

Multiplex

This app provides a powerful terminal experience for remote sessions on iPhone and iPad. It offers live session monitoring, seamless window management, and built-in support for AI agent sessions, files, and links.

Highlights
  • Live session monitoring
  • Stage Manager and Split View support
  • AI agent session integration
  • File and link viewer
  • Home Screen widgets and Shortcuts
  • MOSH support for seamless connections
Features
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Multiplex is a terminal for people who live inside persistent remote sessions — open source, built native for iPhone and iPad. THE WALL Hosts probe concurrently. Every session is a live monitor: its actual last screen lines, red LIVE while attached. See the fleet before attaching; NO SIGNAL reconnects in one tap. Run tmux, or switch a host to herdr — one tile per session, agent state from herdr itself. A SESSION WHERE YOU NEED IT On iPad each session opens in a real scene for Stage Manager, Split View, and external displays. Merge windows into tabs and split them back out — the SSH connection and scrollback move with the tab, so shells never drop. On iPhone, the wall and terminal share one adaptive full-screen shell. BUILT FOR AI AGENT SESSIONS Start Claude Code, Codex, Pi, Grok Build, Antigravity CLI, or Hermes with a setup script, model, and first prompt in one step. Multiplex spots all six in any pane; helper chips follow the foreground agent — commands reach the process receiving your keystrokes; rearrange or add your own, synced everywhere. A message box takes longer prompts: autocorrect, dictation, attached or dropped files land in the pane's directory, sent as one message. Pro lifts the daily chip limit, alerts you when an unwatched turn ends or needs input (Claude Code, Codex, Grok Build on tmux; all agents on herdr), and opens Claude Code prompt history with transcript jumps. FILES & LINKS BESIDE THE TERMINAL Tap a link or path — Multiplex confirms the resolved target first. Files open read-only in the ▤ File Viewer: code, rendered Markdown, images, PDFs, sound files, git diffs. Web links can open in an inline ⌗ viewport. On iPad both land in a side panel beside the pane — the terminal never changes size — or move into a tab. WIDGETS & SHORTCUTS Put a host on your Home Screen — last-known frames, an honest SEEN stamp, SHELL and AGENT keys straight into a connection — or a fleet widget for every host at a glance. Shortcuts and Siri open a shell, show a remote file, or launch an agent in a chosen directory, fresh or inside an existing session. A multiplex:// URL scheme drives automations. MOSH BUILT IN With Pro, switch a host to mosh and the session survives sleep, roaming, and IP changes — a native Swift mosh client, no companion app. CONNECTION STATS A live latency chip on every host rail; Pro opens the full per-host board: round-trips, typing echo, mosh loss and roams, reconnects, data volume. Measured in-session; nothing leaves the device. A REAL TERMINAL xterm-256color emulation, multilingual system-keyboard input, touch and pointer clicks for mouse TUIs, hardware keyboards, live PTY resize, and a menu of everyday tmux (or herdr) commands. Hold CTRL for Key Commands: saved chords the software keyboard cannot press (Shift+Enter, a double Ctrl-C) and one-line text macros, synced everywhere. Pane-clamped selection on long press or double tap. System, Light, and Dark switch the whole chassis, each with its own terminal theme — ten built in; Pro adds an editor down to all 16 ANSI colors. The app speaks English, Traditional Chinese, and Japanese. OPEN SOURCE, PRIVATE BY DESIGN The complete app — terminal engine, mosh client, and all — is open source, Apache 2.0, at github.com/multiplex-term/Multiplex. Read the code that holds your keys, or build it yourself. Hosts, command setups, and secrets sync through iCloud Keychain, end-to-end encrypted. Nothing touches our servers — there are none. No account, no analytics, no tracking. MULTIPLEX PRO One purchase, no subscription: unlimited hosts, mosh, agent notifications, the Connection Stats board, the unmetered command strip, custom themes, and twelve Key Commands. Free includes two hosts, the complete terminal, five Key Commands, and 10 chip taps a day. WHAT YOU NEED A remote host reachable over SSH (password or ed25519/RSA key). The wall and persistent sessions need tmux 1.8+ or herdr 0.7.5+; plain SSH shells need neither. mosh needs mosh-server on the host.

Screenshots

Redock4 screens
Multiplex4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Redock at every 3 days against Multiplex's weekly. Redock also leads on ratings volume (8 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. Redock sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Multiplex sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. 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 Redock against 5.0 for Multiplex. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Redock has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 96% of Redock's written reviews are positive against 100% of Multiplex's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Redock ships an update every 3 days, Multiplex weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Redock versus Multiplex: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRedockMultiplex
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (8 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews96.2% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings8 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Vision Pro — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size73 MB22 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer尚渝 张Jhen Jie Hong

Customer experience

Redock

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews26 reviews
Positive96.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative3.8%

Multiplex

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Redock

Subscriptions2
  • Redock Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Redock Pro Yearly$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Redock Pro Lifetime$69.99
1 purchases

Multiplex

One-time1
  • Multiplex Pro$19.99

Questions

Is Redock free?
Redock is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Multiplex free?
Multiplex is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Redock or Multiplex?
Redock and Multiplex are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 8 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Redock or Multiplex have ads?
Neither Redock nor Multiplex shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Redock or Multiplex?
Redock ships an update every 3 days, and Multiplex weekly. Most recently, Redock was updated on November 5, 2026 and Multiplex on November 3, 2026.

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