Skippr vs Lochan

Run Claude Code, Codex, and any terminal AI agent from your iPhone or iPad. Skippr is a fast SSH + mosh terminal built for coding on the go — start an agent on your server, close the app, and pick the session back up exactly where you left it. BUILT FOR AI-ASSISTED CODING • Guided setup: Skippr generates a setup prompt your agent runs on the host — connected in minutes • Push notifications when your agent needs input or finishes a task • Sessions survive app switches, sleep, and network changes thanks to mosh • Tabs auto-rename to match what's running, just like your desktop terminal A REAL TERMINAL, NOT A TOY • Full-featured terminal with true color, mouse support, and search (Cmd+F) • Smooth touch scrolling in TUIs, text selection, and tappable links • Works with tmux, vim, htop, and every CLI tool you already use • External keyboard shortcuts for iPad workflows MORE THAN A TERMINAL • Built-in file browser and code editor with syntax highlighting • Git diff viewer for reviewing your agent's changes before you commit • Image and video preview right from the file tree • Automatic port forwarding: type localhost:3000 and preview your dev server CONNECT YOUR WAY • Plain SSH or mosh — every feature works on both • Password or key auth, multiple hosts, instant reconnect • Works great over Tailscale and other VPNs No account. No cloud relay. Your connection goes straight from your device to your server.

Your coding agents keep working when you step away. Lochan is how you keep up with them, calmly. When Claude Code, Codex or any other agent on your computer stops to ask a question, open its real terminal on your phone, read what it did, and answer. Then get back to your walk. A CALM VIEW OF A BUSY HERD Every agent on the machine at a glance, with a line on where each one left off. The ones waiting on you always come first. - Tiles: the whole herd as a grid that moves as your agents do - Board: Blocked, Working, Done and Idle as columns you swipe through - Projects: agents grouped by the project they are working in ASK THE SHEPHERD One question, the whole herd. The Shepherd is an agent on your computer that reads every other pane. Ask it what needs you, what changed or whether anything is stuck, and it answers from what is on the screens, with a link to each pane it mentions. It runs Claude Code by default, or Codex, Pi, OpenCode or Grok. ANY AGENT CAN JOIN THE HERD Lochan does not plug into your agent. It opens the terminal the agent is already running in, so it works with Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Grok, OpenCode, Aider and anything else with a prompt. A new agent works the day it ships. A REAL TERMINAL, IN YOUR POCKET Tap any agent for the actual session: full output, scrollback and a keyboard. MAKE THE KEYS YOUR OWN Two rows of keys sit above the terminal. Drag any key to either row, switch off the ones you never use, and add your own: - Text keys for the commands you repeat, like /compact, /usage or /model sonnet - Chord keys for Ctrl, Option and Shift combos, like your tmux prefix or Ctrl-R SHARE A SCREENSHOT WITH YOUR AGENT Pick a photo, take one of the screen in front of you, or send a file. It lands on your computer and its path goes into the prompt, ready for you to finish and send. SAY IT. CHECK IT. SEND IT. Dictate a long instruction, read the transcript, and send it only when it reads right. Or write it in a real text box, with a draft that waits if you get pulled away. RUN THE HERD FROM YOUR PHONE Start a new agent in any project, rename it, and close it when it is done. BUILT FOR A PHONE Lochan tells each agent it is being driven from a phone, so it leads with the answer, keeps replies short and batches its questions. PAIRED IN ONE SCAN Run one line on your Mac or Linux machine, then scan the code it shows. Your phone makes its own key, and it stays in the phone's Keychain. Nothing to type, no private key to copy. Save every machine you own and switch between them from the title bar. No account, and no Lochan server in between: your phone talks to your computers over SSH. Away from home you need a route to them, and Tailscale is the two-minute version. ALSO IN LOCHAN: A PRIVATE AI CHAT Chat with Apple's on-device model, open models downloaded to your phone, or cloud models with your own API key. Conversations branch instead of overwriting, and you can share one with a link we cannot read. Lochan works with Herdr, the terminal workspace for AI coding agents, on the computers you own.