Comparison

Bosun App vs pmosh

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

Head to head
About

Bosun App

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Bosun turns every GitHub repository you care about into a single fleet dashboard. One screen, every workflow, every red build. If you maintain more than a couple of repos, you know the loop: push, context-switch, forget. GitHub's Actions tab shows one repo at a time, and a failing build can sit there for days. Bosun keeps the whole fleet in view and puts the failures on top. THE FLEET DASHBOARD (FREE, FOREVER) • Every repo as a card: CI status, latest runs per workflow, latest release, open PRs and issues. • Failing repos float to the top automatically. Manual reorder if you prefer your own order. • Tap a failing run and the log opens already scrolled to the error. Expand context, copy in a tap, jump to github.com. • Latest release per repo, with notes and asset list. • A calendar of upcoming scheduled (cron) runs across the fleet, with a countdown to the next one. • Re-run or dispatch a workflow from your phone (opt-in, requires write scope). • GitHub service status surfaced inline, so you know when it is them, not you. MULTI-ACCOUNT • Several GitHub accounts in one unified fleet. • Per-account visibility rules: hide an account, or show the work one only on work days and work hours. • Vacation mode: hide the fleet until a date you choose. BOSUN WATCH (SUBSCRIPTION) A phone app cannot watch your CI while it is closed. Bosun Watch runs server-side and does: • Push on failure. A notification within seconds of a workflow going red, and a back-to-green alert when it recovers. • Auto-retry. Per-repo, per-workflow rules with max attempts and cooldown. Only the failed jobs are re-run. Flaky tests stop being pages. • Cascades. When one repo's run triggers runs in others, GitHub records no causal link. Bosun infers the chain and shows it with a confidence score. • Chains. Cross-repo pipelines defined in the app, no YAML. Build two repos, then deploy a third if both are green. One clean notification per chain. • Live widget. Fleet status on your home screen, kept fresh in the background. The free dashboard never degrades. The subscription covers exactly the features that need a server running around the clock. PRIVACY • Sign in with GitHub's device flow. Your token stays in the iOS Keychain. • Read-only by default. The single write scope is opt-in. • No account to create, no email, no analytics, no tracking, no third-party SDKs. • App lock with PIN and Face ID. • Try the whole app in demo mode, with realistic sample data, before connecting anything. Bosun is for indie developers, small teams and OSS maintainers with more repos than attention. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

pmosh

This app provides an SSH terminal for mobile devices, connecting to your existing server's tmux sessions. It's designed for developers to manage command-line tools and shells remotely, ensuring session continuity between your device and server.

Highlights
  • Connects to remote tmux sessions via SSH
  • On-device SSH key generation
  • On-screen keyboard toolbar with special keys
  • Supports external hardware keyboards
  • Multiple tabs for separate tmux sessions
  • No accounts or subscriptions required
Features
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pmosh is an SSH terminal for iPhone and iPad that attaches to a tmux session on your own server using tmux's control mode, so the terminal you see on your phone is the same session running on your machine. It's built for developers who run tmux, shells, and command-line tools — including agentic coding tools like Claude Code — on servers or machines they already own and administer. pmosh doesn't provide any of that for you; it's a client that connects to infrastructure you already have. pmosh only connects to servers you configure. On first launch it generates an ed25519 SSH keypair on your device, stored in the iOS Keychain, and shows you the public key so you can add it to authorized_keys on your own server. You type in your host and username; nothing is pre-filled or bundled. There is no server component, no bundled credentials, and no third-party service in between. Features: - Attaches to a remote tmux session over SSH using tmux's control mode (tmux -CC), so output and session state stay in sync with the server - On-device ed25519 key generation — a unique keypair per install, kept in the iOS Keychain - Optional pmosh account: Sign in with Apple and your host, key rows, settings and SSH key follow you to your other iPhones and iPads through your own iCloud (key-value storage for settings, iCloud Keychain for the key). No pmosh server is involved, and nothing requires an account - Two rows of on-screen keys above the keyboard with what terminal work needs but iOS doesn't have: Esc, Ctrl-C, Enter, arrow keys (hold to repeat), Tab / Shift-Tab, and scrollback paging — both rows customizable in Settings, including keys that type your own text - Claude Code transcript view: the conversation in a Claude Code pane — prompts, replies and tool calls — rendered as a native list that scrolls on the phone, read from the session log over the same SSH connection; plus smooth, momentum-based scrolling inside full-screen terminal apps - Works with an external hardware keyboard if you use one - Multiple tabs, each its own tmux session - No account required; free tier with one tab, pmosh Pro for unlimited tabs Privacy: pmosh does not collect analytics or usage data, and does not talk to any server other than the one you enter in setup. No data is sent to the developer or any third party; the optional account syncs through your own iCloud, which we cannot read. The only network connection the app itself makes is the SSH connection to your own server. Requirements: pmosh needs an SSH server you control, reachable from your device, with tmux installed on it. It is not a hosting service and does not include a server — you connect it to a server you already run.

Screenshots

Bosun App4 screens
pmosh4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: pmosh at 17.0 against Bosun App's 26.0. On price, 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Bosun App versus pmosh: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBosun Apppmosh
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequency—Every 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDaniele ScarattiRobert Gruber

In-app purchases

None

Bosun App

No in-app purchases

None

pmosh

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bosun App free?
Bosun App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is pmosh free?
pmosh is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Bosun App or pmosh have ads?
Neither Bosun App nor pmosh shows ads.

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