Corterm vs Knife Terminal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
Corterm
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Corterm brings your self-hosted terminal workspace to iPhone and iPad. Install a Worker on your server, Mac, PC, or container host, connect it to your Gateway, and start shell sessions from anywhere. Use Corterm to: ⢠create and reconnect terminal sessions on your own machines ⢠manage online workers and check their status ⢠activate workers with a simple device-flow code ⢠keep long-running sessions available across reconnects ⢠work with a touch-friendly mobile interface Corterm is built for developers, operators, and power users who want remote terminal access without handing infrastructure to a third-party cloud. You host the Gateway. You run the Workers. Your sessions stay yours.
Knife Terminal
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Knife Terminal mirrors the terminal sessions on your Mac to your iPhone. It is the phone-side companion to the free, open-source Knife Terminal app for macOS. Run Claude Code (or any command-line tool) in Knife Terminal on your Mac, and every tab follows you out the door: ⢠Live mirror ā each session's screen rendered natively, with real colors, text selection and copy ⢠Chat view ā Claude Code sessions read like a messages thread: your prompts, Claude's replies, tool activity ⢠Reply from anywhere ā type into any session from your phone; a push notification tells you when a session is waiting on you ⢠Usage at a glance ā 5-hour, weekly and per-model usage bars, one tap away ⢠Open projects remotely ā start a new session in any recent project without touching the Mac ⢠Private by design ā everything syncs through your own private iCloud database. No accounts, no analytics, no servers of ours; we never see your data. Requires the free, open-source Knife Terminal app for macOS: github.com/cheewee2000/knife-terminal
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Verdict
Corterm and Knife Terminal are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters ā price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them ā 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Corterm | Knife Terminal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Weekly | ā |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 ā better |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 83 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ęÆä¼ é® | CW&T |
In-app purchases
Corterm
No in-app purchases
Knife Terminal
No in-app purchases









