Comparison

ServerPanel vs BentoTerm

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

Head to head
About

ServerPanel

Monitor Linux servers from your iPhone or iPad with live CPU, memory, and disk activity. Includes a full SSH terminal with session management and command snippets. Offers premium features like SFTP and port forwarding.

Highlights
  • Live server monitoring (CPU, memory, disk)
  • Full SSH terminal with gestures
  • Command snippets and presets
  • Password or private key authentication
  • SFTP file browser
  • Port forwarding (SSH tunnels)
  • Threshold alerts
Features
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Keep an eye on every Linux server you run — right from your iPhone or iPad, with no agent to install. ServerPanel connects over plain SSH and turns raw command output into clear, glanceable dashboards. Add a server with its host and credentials, and within seconds you'll see live CPU, memory, disk, and network activity — no software to deploy on the server itself. MONITORING, VISUALIZED • Overall and per-core CPU usage • Memory and swap usage • System load average (1/5/15 min) and uptime • Real-time network throughput and cumulative traffic • Disk capacity per partition, live I/O • Top processes by CPU and memory • Read-only Docker container list with live stats • Live Activity and Dynamic Island that appear automatically while a session is active A FULL SSH TERMINAL, INCLUDED FREE • Interactive SSH terminal with real terminal emulation, gestures, and an on-screen key row built for iOS • Session keep-alive with one-tap reconnect • Save snippets — your own commands plus handy presets — and run them with a tap SECURE BY DESIGN • Password or private key authentication (PEM/OpenSSH, including passphrase-protected keys) • Credentials stay in the iOS Keychain — never sent anywhere but your server • Organize your servers into groups FREE TO START Monitor and connect to up to 3 servers, use the full SSH terminal, and save up to 8 snippets — at no cost. PREMIUM Upgrade to unlock: • Unlimited servers • SFTP file browser — browse, upload, and download files • Local and remote port forwarding (SSH tunnels) • Login scripts — automate expect/send steps when you connect • Unlimited snippets and the full preset library • End-to-end encrypted iCloud sync across your devices • Threshold alerts for CPU, memory, and disk, with background checks SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS ServerPanel Premium unlocks unlimited servers, the SFTP browser, port forwarding, login scripts, unlimited snippets, iCloud sync, and threshold alerts. Three plans are available: • Monthly — auto-renewing subscription, billed every month • Yearly — auto-renewing subscription, billed every year • Lifetime — a one-time purchase, no recurring charges Monthly and Yearly plans automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase, and your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription anytime in your Apple ID account settings after purchase. Prices are shown in the app and may vary by region. The Lifetime plan is a single payment with no renewal or recurring charge. Privacy Policy: https://www.mzjpg.com/policy/serverpanel Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ SUPPORT Questions, feature requests, or something not working right? Email us at support@mzjpg.com — we read every message. ServerPanel is built for developers, indie hosts, and small teams who'd rather glance at a dashboard than SSH in just to run `top`. If ServerPanel is helping you keep your servers in check, please take a moment to leave a review — it genuinely helps us keep building.

About

BentoTerm

Features
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Your agents run for forty minutes at a time. Watching one is a waste of you — so you run several, and the problem becomes keeping track of them all. Bento Term is a terminal built for exactly that. A WHOLE TEAM, ONE SCREEN Every agent gets a pane, tinted by what it's doing: blue is working, amber is waiting for you, green is done and you haven't looked yet. You read the room instead of visiting each one. Parallel mode tiles everything; Focus mode gives one pane the whole screen with the rest in a sidebar. SAY IT, DON'T TYPE IT Hold on a pane and talk. Speaking is about three times faster than typing, and Bento reads the screen, so file names and technical words come out right — mixed Chinese/English included. Slide up to send, down to cancel. LEAVE THE DESK, NOT THE WORK Everything runs in tmux on your machine — your Mac, a Linux server, or WSL — over plain SSH, with nothing installed on the other end. Quit the app, close the laptop: nothing stops. Attach from iPhone or iPad mid-run and answer from wherever you are. EVERY DAY - The file tree of every pane's working directory. Tap a printed path and it opens with syntax highlighting, even at :42. PDFs and images too. - Panes move like windows: split, drag, drop — every move is a real tmux move. - Pick a folder, pick an agent, and Bento opens the panes and starts them. No shell needed. - Ten agents recognized out of the box — Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI and more — every profile editable, so a tool nobody has heard of yet is one profile away. BUILT LIKE A TERMINAL Native Swift, the same GPU renderer as Ghostty (libghostty), real tmux control mode (-CC). No accounts. Your terminal output never leaves your machines. Free and open source, Apache-2.0. Requires a machine you can ssh into with tmux installed. macOS, Linux and WSL all work.

Screenshots

ServerPanel4 screens
BentoTerm4 screens

Verdict

The call

ServerPanel and BentoTerm are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
ServerPanel versus BentoTerm: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterServerPanelBentoTerm
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB42 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperDajialeChi On Ho

In-app purchases

None

ServerPanel

No in-app purchases

None

BentoTerm

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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