Murmur BLE Shell vs BlueTerm
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Murmur BLE Shell
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murmur turns your phone into a remote control for a Raspberry Pi โ no Wi-Fi, no network setup, no port forwarding. Just Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), directly between your phone and the Pi. HOW IT WORKS Install the open-source murmur daemon on any Raspberry Pi running Linux, pair your phone with it over Bluetooth, and you get: โข Shell mode โ a real interactive terminal on the Pi, right from your phone. โข Agent mode โ describe what you want in plain English ("what's eating my disk space?", "set up a static IP") and an AI agent plans and runs the shell commands for you, showing every command and its output as it goes. BRING YOUR OWN API KEY Agent mode is powered by your own Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, or Google Gemini API key โ entered once in Settings, stored only in your phone's secure keychain. murmur has no backend server and no account system. The only network calls it makes are the LLM requests you trigger yourself, using your own key. WORKS OFFLINE ON THE PI SIDE The Raspberry Pi never needs an internet connection. It just needs Bluetooth and the murmur daemon running. Good for headless boxes, home labs, and devices you'd rather not put on a network at all. PRIVACY BY DESIGN Everything murmur stores โ the Bluetooth pairing key, your API key, an optional per-device sudo password, and saved agent conversations โ stays on your phone in the OS-level secure store. One tap in Settings wipes it all. OPEN SOURCE Both the daemon and the app are open source: github.com/nekonihq/murmur
BlueTerm
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BlueTerm turns your phone into a bridge between a Bluetooth serial device and your computer's browser. Connect the device once on the phone, flip one switch, and any browser on the same Wi-Fi becomes a full terminal and live plotter for it. KEY FEATURES - Browser Bridge - one switch serves a terminal and a live plot to any browser on your Wi-Fi. No cable, no driver, nothing to install on the computer. - BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) - Nordic UART devices connect automatically, and a built-in GATT explorer lets you pick the notify and write characteristics yourself when a device uses its own UUIDs. - A terminal that reads like one - timestamps, hex view, selectable line endings (LF / CRLF / CR / none) and one-tap command macros. - Live plotting - numbers your device sends (temp:23.5, rpm=1200, >speed:3.14 or plain CSV) are charted in real time, in the app and in the browser. - Export what you captured - CSV or JSON through the share sheet, so it lands in iCloud Drive, Google Drive or anywhere you choose. - Try it without hardware - a built-in simulator streams sample sensor data, so you can see the whole flow before you own a device. NEW IN 1.2 - AUTOMATION AND AI AGENTS - AI coding agents (MCP) - turn on MCP on the Bridge screen (open it from the terminal's top bar) and an MCP client on your computer, such as Claude Code or Cursor, can read the live log and channel values over the same Wi-Fi (free). With Pro it can also send commands to the device. MCP is off by default, needs its own key and works while BlueTerm is open. - Auto-reply rules and send sequences - reply to a matching line automatically, or send a list of commands with delays and repeats. Free: 1 rule and 1 sequence; Pro: 10 of each. - Trigger capture - when a value crosses a threshold or a pattern appears, the lines before and after are saved for review and export. Free: 1 trigger and 3 saved captures; Pro: 10 triggers and 100 captures. - Long recording (Pro) - write the whole session to files of up to 50 MB each, keeping the latest 20. - Session history - every connection is recorded on the device automatically: all received and sent lines with timestamps. Search it, share it as TXT or CSV, or delete it. Free keeps the last 5 sessions, Pro keeps 100. - Commands sent by a rule or an agent are marked in the phone and browser terminals. BlueTerm Pro is a one-time lifetime purchase, not a subscription. It also removes ads and raises the scrollback, macro and browser limits. WHY THIS APP? Every other Bluetooth serial app ends inside the phone screen. But the work - reading long logs, comparing graphs, copying values into your notes - happens on a computer, and computers have no standard way to open a Bluetooth serial port. Access to the bridge is protected by a password you set yourself, with a lockout after repeated failures, and the address is served on your local network only. Terms of Use (EULA): https://blueterm.mint-soft.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://blueterm.mint-soft.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Murmur BLE Shell at none against BlueTerm's 1. Murmur BLE Shell also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. BlueTerm sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Murmur BLE Shell asks for nothing beyond the download.
Murmur BLE Shell ships an update weekly, BlueTerm every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Murmur BLE Shell | BlueTerm |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 4 days โ better |
| Ads | No โ better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No โ better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod โ better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 โ better |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 50 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DENYS MALYKHIN | mint-soft |
In-app purchases
Murmur BLE Shell
No in-app purchases
BlueTerm
- BlueTerm Pro (Lifetime)$6.90
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