TerminalWidget vs Murmur BLE Shell
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TerminalWidget
Display script output directly on your home screen widgets. Visualize data with progress indicators, charts, and tables. Control scripts via Shortcuts or URL schemes, with iCloud sync for Mac and iOS.
- Script output in widgets
- Progress indicators, charts, graphs
- iCloud sync for Mac and iOS
- Control via Shortcuts
- URL scheme support
- Universal purchase
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Scripters rejoice! Now you can have output from your scripts, AppleScripts, and Shortcuts display in widgets on iOS (and sync to and from your Mac via iCloud). You can see progress indicators, charts, graphs, icons, tables, and more. All controllable via Shortcuts or with a URL scheme (and a CLI on Mac). This is a universal purchase for the Mac, iOS, and Watch apps.
Murmur BLE Shell
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murmur turns your phone into a remote control for a Raspberry Pi — no Wi-Fi, no network setup, no port forwarding. Just Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), directly between your phone and the Pi. HOW IT WORKS Install the open-source murmur daemon on any Raspberry Pi running Linux, pair your phone with it over Bluetooth, and you get: • Shell mode — a real interactive terminal on the Pi, right from your phone. • Agent mode — describe what you want in plain English ("what's eating my disk space?", "set up a static IP") and an AI agent plans and runs the shell commands for you, showing every command and its output as it goes. BRING YOUR OWN API KEY Agent mode is powered by your own Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, or Google Gemini API key — entered once in Settings, stored only in your phone's secure keychain. murmur has no backend server and no account system. The only network calls it makes are the LLM requests you trigger yourself, using your own key. WORKS OFFLINE ON THE PI SIDE The Raspberry Pi never needs an internet connection. It just needs Bluetooth and the murmur daemon running. Good for headless boxes, home labs, and devices you'd rather not put on a network at all. PRIVACY BY DESIGN Everything murmur stores — the Bluetooth pairing key, your API key, an optional per-device sudo password, and saved agent conversations — stays on your phone in the OS-level secure store. One tap in Settings wipes it all. OPEN SOURCE Both the daemon and the app are open source: github.com/nekonihq/murmur
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Murmur BLE Shell at Free against TerminalWidget's $19.99. Murmur BLE Shell also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). TerminalWidget's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly) and chart position (#158 vs unranked). On ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
Murmur BLE Shell is free to download; TerminalWidget costs $19.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
TerminalWidget ships an update every 2 days, Murmur BLE Shell weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TerminalWidget | Murmur BLE Shell |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $19.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.5 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Best chart rank | #158 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Brett Terpstra | DENYS MALYKHIN |
In-app purchases
TerminalWidget
No in-app purchases
Murmur BLE Shell
No in-app purchases
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