Comparison

Mossh vs Wake

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

Head to head
About

Mossh

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Mossh is an SSH terminal optimized for Codex, Claude Code, and remote AI coding workflows on iPhone. Connect to your remote development machine, attach to tmux, and keep long-running coding agent sessions available when you step away from your desk. Mossh is built for terminal-heavy work where readable diffs, logs, prompts, and command output matter. Save your SSH hosts, connect with a password or a generated key, and work in a terminal designed for mobile AI coding sessions. Mossh keeps the core workflow direct: open a host, trust the server key, continue your Codex or Claude Code session, paste safely, and get back to work. What you can do: - Save SSH host profiles with host, port, username, authentication method, TERM, startup directory, and tmux settings. - Connect with password authentication or an Ed25519 key generated and stored on your device. - Verify host keys before trusting a new or changed server. - Keep Codex, Claude Code, and shell sessions ready with tmux-friendly defaults. - Switch between multiple remote coding tabs and reconnect when needed. - Use readable terminal themes for code diffs, logs, prompts, and agent output. - Send common commands from a customizable terminal command panel. - Upload selected images or videos to the active SSH session and paste the remote file path. Mossh Pro is a one-time purchase. It unlocks unlimited hosts, up to 10 terminal tabs, unlimited custom commands, media upload, and the full terminal theme collection. The free version includes the core SSH workflow with limited hosts and one active terminal tab. Mossh does not include ads, analytics, or third-party tracking. Host profiles stay on your device, and passwords and generated private keys are stored in the iOS Keychain.

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Wake

Features
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Your sessions live on your own machine, inside tmux. Close Wake, lose signal, reboot the phone โ€” they keep running, and Wake reattaches exactly where they were. Built for the way people work with coding agents: several long-running sessions on a Mac or Linux box, checked on from a phone. THE DASHBOARD One row per session, with the state you actually want to know: producing output, quiet and probably waiting for you, or idle โ€” plus the last line each one printed. Tap to attach. A REAL TERMINAL, NOT A CHAT Full xterm emulation with one-finger scroll and native selection. Search inside the session. A snippet bar above the keyboard with {{placeholders}} you fill in as you insert. Paste without the system prompt. Nerd Font glyphs, so prompts and TUIs look right. Light and dark themes. On iPad, two sessions side by side. HISTORY THAT DOES NOT EVAPORATE Every byte your sessions print is appended to a log on your own server, then synced to the phone and indexed. Search across sessions and across days, read it on the train with no connection, export a whole transcript to a file. Nothing is lost to a scrollback limit โ€” and the list of what you were doing, and where, outlives the machine that ran it. PROJECTS, NOT CONNECTIONS Every git repo under the folders you choose, with dirty and unpushed badges so you can see where the work is. Launch templates turn one tap into the right command in the right directory. Browse files over SFTP with Quick Look, upload, rename, make folders. Read git status, log and diff; commit and push. WAKE THE MACHINE Your Mac is allowed to sleep. Tap the server and Wake sends a magic packet through another machine on that network, waits for SSH to answer, and puts you back into your sessions. WHAT IT NEEDS ON THE SERVER sshd, tmux 3.3 or newer, and git. Nothing else. No agent to install, no daemon, no account, no cloud service in the middle. A guided preflight checks every requirement and shows you the exact command to paste for anything missing. KEYS AND ACCESS Import an existing private key in any container: OpenSSH (encrypted too), PKCS#8, PEM, PuTTY .ppk. Ed25519 and ECDSA P-256/384/521 โ€” RSA is not supported, generate an Ed25519 key instead. Keys live in the Keychain, host keys are pinned on first connection and a change blocks the connection. Face ID can lock the whole app. WAKE PRO Wake is free with one server and two live sessions, and every reading feature โ€” history, search, export โ€” is included. Wake Pro โ€” monthly, yearly, or a one-time lifetime purchase โ€” unlocks unlimited servers and sessions. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase, and you can manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings. Nothing you created is ever taken away: if a subscription lapses, extra servers stay in the list and existing sessions remain attachable. PRIVACY No account, no telemetry, no tracking. Your logs stay on your server and on your phone, kept out of iCloud backup. Known secrets โ€” API tokens, private keys โ€” are masked in the search index. Retention is yours to set, on both sides. FROM ANYWHERE, NO OPEN PORTS Wake talks plain SSH, directly or through a Cloudflare Tunnel: pick "Cloudflare Tunnel", type your tunnel's hostname, and Wake opens the same connection cloudflared would โ€” nothing to install on the phone, no port open on your router, service tokens supported for hostnames behind Cloudflare Access. WireGuard and Tailscale work too. Nothing is relayed through us, because there is no us in the path. Wake is not affiliated with or endorsed by any coding agent or service; their names are used only to describe what runs inside your terminal sessions. LEGAL Privacy Policy: https://marcotini.com/privacy-policy Terms of Use (EULA): https://marcotini.com/eula

Screenshots

Mossh4 screens
Wake4 screens

Verdict

The call

Mossh and Wake are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Mossh sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Wake sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Mossh versus Wake: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMosshWake
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyโ€”Every 11 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad โ€” better
Requires iOS18.017.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size7 MB24 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerๅฐๆฆ• ๅ‘จMarco Tini

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Mossh

One-time1
  • Mossh Pro Lifetime$19.99
3 purchases

Wake

Subscriptions2
  • Wake Pro Monthly$0.991 Month
  • Wake Pro Yearly$8.991 Year
One-time1
  • Wake Pro Lifetime$29.99

Questions

Is Mossh free?
Mossh is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Wake free?
Wake is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Mossh or Wake have ads?
Neither Mossh nor Wake shows ads.

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