Comparison

Termixa vs ShellDiver

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

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Termixa

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Your computer runs the AI. Your phone runs the show. Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Codex โ€” today's development happens on your machine, driven by AI agents. Termixa puts them in your pocket: start the work, answer their questions, approve their plans, and see what they build โ€” live, from anywhere. TWO PARTS, ONE SETUP Termixa is a pair. This app is the remote control; the free Termixa Connector runs on your computer (macOS, Windows, or Linux โ€” download at termixa.com/download). Open the Connector, scan its QR code with your phone, and you're connected. No port forwarding, no VPN, no SSH keys. EVERY AI, ONE COMMAND CENTER - A real terminal on your computer, rendered beautifully on your phone - Up to six workspaces side by side โ€” Claude in one tab, Gemini in another - Quick commands: save the ones you use daily, run them with one tap - Works across networks: home Wi-Fi, office, LTE โ€” your session follows you SEE WHAT YOUR AI BUILDS - Web apps: open your localhost dev server in the built-in viewer โ€” frontend and backend API ports both work, nothing gets published anywhere - Mobile apps (NEW): run the React Native / Expo app you're building NATIVELY on this phone or iPad, over the secure tunnel โ€” even on a different network. Save a file on your computer and the preview reloads by itself. Works with Expo SDK 56 projects using Termixa's bundled native modules; custom native modules aren't supported. BUILT FOR iPAD A full dev studio: terminal and AI on the left, your running app docked on the right. Rotate freely, toggle the preview to full screen with one tap. PRIVATE BY ARCHITECTURE Everything travels end-to-end encrypted, directly between your devices. Zero-trust port model: nothing on your computer is reachable unless you open it โ€” and you can end the session from either side. We store nothing. FREE AND PRO The free plan gives you a real remote terminal with a workspace and a port. Termixa Pro unlocks six workspaces, twenty ports, the native mobile app preview, and sessions with no time limits. Every new account starts with a free 7-day Pro trial โ€” no payment required. Questions? support@termixa.com Keywords (94 karakter) claude,gemini,codex,ai agent,terminal,remote,ssh,localhost,expo,react native,developer,preview

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ShellDiver

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With software, free is usually a question rather than an answer. Here it is arithmetic: no server of ours, no accounts, no analytics โ€” nothing for a subscription to pay for. Sync, startup commands, port forwarding: all of it is in the app. WHERE YOUR KEYS LIVE In your device's keychain. ShellDiver has no account and no sign-in โ€” there is simply nowhere on our side for anything of yours to sit. An Ed25519 key either travels with you through iCloud Keychain, end-to-end encrypted, or stays on this device behind Face ID. A Secure Enclave key is created inside the security chip. It cannot be read out โ€” not even by ShellDiver โ€” never leaves the device, and will ask for Face ID on every sign-in if you want it to. THE VAULT Instead of iCloud you can take syncing into your own hands: an encrypted file in a place you choose. A USB stick, a cloud folder, or your own WebDAV server, so Nextcloud, ownCloud, a Synology, an Apache with mod_dav. It works across different Apple IDs and carries the secrets with it: saved server passwords and private keys. Only your devices encrypt and decrypt. Whoever runs the storage location sees nothing but unreadable files. You add a second device with a QR code, without typing your passphrase there. THE TERMINAL It does not hang up because you looked somewhere else for a minute: the connection belongs to the session, not to the screen. The running build and the half-typed line are still there when you come back. Up to 20 sessions as tabs, terminals and files mixed. Real xterm emulation: colour, UTF-8, resizing that works โ€” htop, vim and colourful logs look the way you expect. Plus search through the scrollback, your choice of monospaced font including Nerd Fonts, and five colour schemes. On iPhone there is a row above the keyboard with esc, ctrl, tab, arrows and a paste key, because a phone has no โŒ˜V. When the link drops, ShellDiver notices through keepalives and rebuilds it by itself. This is SSH, not Mosh: the new shell starts fresh. SIGNING IN WITHOUT GUESSING ShellDiver asks the server which methods it offers and works through whatever it holds credentials for. That covers publickey followed by keyboard-interactive โ€” 2FA after the key โ€” and equally a server that only offers keyboard-interactive while the host is saved as "password". One-time codes are never pre-filled and never stored. You confirm a host key once, by its fingerprint. Every connection after that checks it, and a key that has changed is refused rather than waved through. THROUGH A JUMP HOST When a server is only open on the inside, you give it a jump host โ€” OpenSSH's ProxyJump. The jump host then forwards nothing but encrypted bytes and cannot read along; both sign-ins are signed on this device. So your key does not have to sit on the machine in between, and a Secure Enclave key works here too. FILES AND TUNNELS The SFTP browser downloads and uploads, whole folders included, renames, and deletes recursively. Local port forwarding brings a database or an admin interface onto this device. It listens on 127.0.0.1 only and cannot be reached from outside; each rule holds its own connection, so a tunnel does not fall with a terminal. WHAT YOU ALREADY HAVE Your ~/.ssh/config is imported, with each IdentityFile matched against the keys you have and any ProxyJump resolved; so is known_hosts, hashed entries as far as they can be matched. Keys come in as Ed25519, RSA or ECDSA โ€” from the OpenSSH container, from PuTTY's .ppk (v2 and v3), and from the PEM family. A passphrase on the file is used once during import and not kept. Snippets are also the buttons above the keyboard โ€” global or bound to one host, with a confirmation step if you want one. One per host runs by itself as soon as the shell is open. The backup is a JSON file you can read โ€” secrets sit inside an encrypted block under a passphrase you choose. Without it nobody gets at them, us included.

Screenshots

Termixa4 screens
ShellDiver4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ShellDiver at none against Termixa's 2. ShellDiver also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 4 weeks). Termixa's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

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. Termixa sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. ShellDiver asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Termixa ships an update every 4 weeks, ShellDiver weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 3 level
Termixa versus ShellDiver: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTermixaShellDiver
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeksWeekly โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac โ€” better
Requires iOS16.4 โ€” better18.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size69 MB11 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperUnsal ErkalMathias Oysmueller

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Termixa

Subscriptions2
  • Termixa Pro$2.991 Month
  • Termixa Pro Annual$29.991 Year
None

ShellDiver

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Termixa free?
Termixa is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ShellDiver free?
ShellDiver is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Termixa or ShellDiver have ads?
Neither Termixa nor ShellDiver shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Termixa or ShellDiver?
Termixa ships an update every 4 weeks, and ShellDiver weekly. Most recently, Termixa was updated on October 18, 2026 and ShellDiver on October 21, 2026.

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