Comparison

TerminalWidget vs Murmur BLE Shell

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Script output in widgets
  • Progress indicators, charts, graphs
  • iCloud sync for Mac and iOS
  • Control via Shortcuts
  • URL scheme support
  • Universal purchase
Features
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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.

About

Murmur BLE Shell

Features
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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

Screenshots

TerminalWidget4 screens
Murmur BLE Shell4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
TerminalWidget versus Murmur BLE Shell: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTerminalWidgetMurmur BLE Shell
Price$19.99Free — better
Rating3.5 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
Best chart rank#158 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB34 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBrett TerpstraDENYS MALYKHIN

In-app purchases

None

TerminalWidget

No in-app purchases

None

Murmur BLE Shell

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TerminalWidget free?
TerminalWidget costs $19.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Murmur BLE Shell free?
Murmur BLE Shell is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do TerminalWidget or Murmur BLE Shell have ads?
Neither TerminalWidget nor Murmur BLE Shell shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TerminalWidget or Murmur BLE Shell?
TerminalWidget ships an update every 2 days, and Murmur BLE Shell weekly. Most recently, TerminalWidget was updated on October 2, 2026 and Murmur BLE Shell on October 3, 2026.

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