Comparison

dotMux easy SSH with tmux vs AgentHeadroom

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

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dotMux easy SSH with tmux

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Stop fighting tmux on a touchscreen. dotMux speaks tmux control mode natively and rebuilds your remote workspace as real iOS UI — the way iTerm2 does on the Mac. Windows and panes become native tabs and views you drive by touch. NATIVE tmux, NOT raw text - Remote tmux windows become native tabs. - Every pane becomes a native view — focused full-screen on iPhone, true side-by-side splits on iPad. - Split, resize, and close panes from the app — pane menu, long-press, drag the divider, or keyboard shortcuts. - The window and pane pickers render your real terminals, live: pick a window by what's in it, not by its name. - Select and copy text with native handles; tap links in the terminal to open them. - If a host has no tmux, dotMux falls back gracefully to a plain terminal. EVERY HOST AT ONCE - Connect to as many hosts as you like at once. Leaving a terminal doesn't disconnect it — work keeps running on every host you have open. - The host list is the connection switcher: live hosts marked where you already look, one tap away. - Group hosts into folders; each folder shows what's connected inside it. - Forward a remote port over SSH and open your server's web UI inside dotMux. REAL SSH, DONE RIGHT - Password and public-key authentication. - Import your ed25519 or ECDSA (P-256) keys by paste or from Files — passphrase-protected keys included. - Or generate a key in the Secure Enclave: non-exportable, signed in-chip, never leaving the device. - Review and forget trusted host keys. - Connect directly from your device to your own servers. No middleman, no developer backend. PICK UP WHERE YOU LEFT OFF - The session picker lists every tmux session on the host and marks the ones already attached. - Switch sessions in place, or create named ones on the fly. - iOS suspended the app? Jobs keep running on the server, and dotMux re-attaches and rebuilds your tabs and panes when you come back. A KEYBOARD BUILT FOR TERMINALS - A helper bar with the keys terminals actually need: Esc, Ctrl, Tab and more. - Fully customizable: add, remove, and reorder every key — F-keys, Ctrl combos, arrows, even your own text. - Snippets: save commands globally or per host and run them again without typing them. - A multi-line composer for drafting long commands and agent prompts, sent in one go. - A drag-pad arrow joystick with press-and-hold repeat, sticky modifiers, and a hide-to-floating-dock control when you want the screen back. - Paste images from your clipboard — annotate them first if you like; dotMux uploads them and pastes the path (built for Claude Code). MAKE IT YOURS - Terminal fonts: JetBrains Mono, Fira Code, Hack, IBM Plex Mono and more. - Color themes with live preview: Dracula, Nord, Solarized, Gruvbox, Tokyo Night and more — or import any Ghostty or iTerm2 theme from a file or URL. - Pinch to zoom with a live cols Ɨ rows readout; keep the screen awake while connected. AUTOMATE IT - Shortcuts support: connect to a host, send a command, read the output back. Unattended runs, enabled per credential, for automations that can't stop to ask for Face ID. SECURITY THAT STAYS ON YOUR DEVICE - Face ID app-lock, plus a second Face ID gate per credential, with a short configurable grace period. - Credentials live in the Keychain and Secure Enclave, bound to this device — never synced to iCloud, never sent anywhere. - A privacy cover hides the terminal in the app switcher. - dotMux collects no data. No analytics, no tracking, no ads, no account, no sign-up. MADE FOR iPad TOO - One universal app for iPhone and iPad. - Open hosts side by side in multiple windows; built for hardware keyboard and trackpad. PRICING - Free: save and connect to one host, fully featured. - Unlimited Hosts: a one-time $1.99 purchase to save as many servers as you like. No subscription. Restore Purchases supported. Note: RSA keys are not supported (modern OpenSSH disables the SHA-1 ssh-rsa signature). Use ed25519, ECDSA (P-256), or a Secure Enclave key.

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AgentHeadroom

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Headroom for your agent quota. AgentHeadroom reads the usage limits on the AI accounts you already have, shows how fast you are spending them, and keeps the numbers current on the Lock Screen, in widgets, on iPad and in your Mac's menu bar — without opening anything. REFRESHED FROM ANYWHERE Each of these refreshes, and updates the widgets and the Live Activity: • A Control Center button, even when locked • A Lock Screen button, the Action button, Siri or a Shortcut • Automations: when you open Claude, ChatGPT or Codex, when the device goes on charge, or at a time of day • The refresh button on a widget, or the Live Activity's arrow, which can start the Live Activity with the app closed • On its own in the background, as often as iOS allows ON THE LOCK SCREEN, WITH THE APP CLOSED A Live Activity counts your five-hour window down to the second, with the spend it was last read at and how fast it is moving — and says so when the window resets. WHAT IT SHOWS • Every window at once — five-hour, weekly, and per-model — as a ring • Whether you are on pace, ahead, or burning, measured against the clock • A projection: at this rate, do you run out before the window resets? • Usage credits, in money • Counted from either end: what you have used, or what is left • Notifications for a threshold crossed, a reset ahead of schedule, and a session that needs signing in again WIDGETS Small, medium and large Home Screen widgets, and Lock Screen widgets, each on the account you choose. IPHONE, IPAD AND MAC One purchase for all three. On iPad: a readable column, every orientation, Split View and Slide Over. On the Mac: a menu bar item, a menu and desktop widgets. Turn on Share accounts with the Mac and your accounts arrive there through your iCloud Keychain — the Mac never signs in. Turn on Wake from Mac and the Mac nudges the phone the moment usage moves. FREE, AND PRO Free is one account with every feature. Pro adds as many accounts as you like, and accounts you already have keep working whatever happens: • AgentHeadroom Pro (Lifetime) — $14.99, paid once • AgentHeadroom Pro (Annual) — $7.99 a year, auto-renewing PRIVACY AgentHeadroom collects nothing. It has no server to collect it with. • Your usage numbers, and nothing else. Your conversations, your prompts and your code are never requested and never seen. • Your sign-in stays on this device, in the iOS Keychain, and never syncs or migrates from a backup. With Share accounts with the Mac on, it is kept in your iCloud Keychain instead — end-to-end encrypted, readable on your devices only, never seen by us — until you turn sharing off. • There is no AgentHeadroom account. No server, no sign-up. Two things go through Apple's iCloud, both yours to switch off: the sign-ins you share, in your iCloud Keychain, and while Wake from Mac is on, a one-line nudge from your Mac in your own iCloud account that says usage moved and carries no reading. • No analytics, no ads, no crash reporter. • Deleting an account erases its session, its readings and its history straight away. • You can check all of this. Point a network proxy at your phone and watch — the only hosts AgentHeadroom ever contacts are the providers whose accounts you added. AgentHeadroom is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any AI provider. Provider names appear only as labels for accounts you added yourself. TERMS Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. AgentHeadroom Pro (Annual) is a $7.99 auto-renewing subscription with a term of one year. It renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your Apple Account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the period ending. Manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. AgentHeadroom Pro (Lifetime) is a one-time purchase of $14.99 and does not renew. Terms of Use (EULA): https://thirdvantage.com/eula/ Privacy Policy: https://thirdvantage.com/privacy-policy/

Screenshots

dotMux easy SSH with tmux4 screens
AgentHeadroom4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: AgentHeadroom at every 3 days against dotMux easy SSH with tmux's every 3 weeks. AgentHeadroom also leads on iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. dotMux easy SSH with tmux sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and AgentHeadroom sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

dotMux easy SSH with tmux ships an update every 3 weeks, AgentHeadroom every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
dotMux easy SSH with tmux versus AgentHeadroom: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterdotMux easy SSH with tmuxAgentHeadroom
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS26.018.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFree TomorrowThird Vantage LLC

In-app purchases

1 purchases

dotMux easy SSH with tmux

One-time1
  • dotMux — Unlimited Hosts$1.99
2 purchases

AgentHeadroom

Subscriptions1
  • Pro, yearly$7.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pro, forever$14.99

Questions

Is dotMux easy SSH with tmux free?
dotMux easy SSH with tmux is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is AgentHeadroom free?
AgentHeadroom is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do dotMux easy SSH with tmux or AgentHeadroom have ads?
Neither dotMux easy SSH with tmux nor AgentHeadroom shows ads.
Which is updated more often, dotMux easy SSH with tmux or AgentHeadroom?
dotMux easy SSH with tmux ships an update every 3 weeks, and AgentHeadroom every 3 days. Most recently, dotMux easy SSH with tmux was updated on October 20, 2026 and AgentHeadroom on October 11, 2026.

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