Comparison

Multiplex vs HopMosh

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

Head to head
About

Multiplex

This open-source terminal app for iPhone and iPad allows users to manage persistent remote sessions with live monitoring and quick reconnections. It offers advanced features for AI agent sessions, file viewing, and home screen widgets, enhancing productivity for developers.

Highlights
  • Live session monitoring
  • One-tap reconnection
  • AI agent session integration
  • File and link viewer
  • Home screen widgets
  • MOSH support (Pro)
  • Connection statistics (Pro)
Features
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Multiplex is a terminal for people who live inside persistent remote sessions — open source, built native for iPhone and iPad. THE WALL Hosts probe concurrently. Every session is a live monitor: its actual last screen lines, red LIVE while attached. See the fleet before attaching; NO SIGNAL reconnects in one tap. Run tmux, or switch a host to herdr — one tile per session, agent state from herdr itself. A SESSION WHERE YOU NEED IT On iPad each session opens in a real scene for Stage Manager, Split View, and external displays. Merge windows into tabs and split them back out — the SSH connection and scrollback move with the tab, so shells never drop. On iPhone, the wall and terminal share one adaptive full-screen shell. BUILT FOR AI AGENT SESSIONS Start Claude Code, Codex, Pi, Grok Build, Antigravity CLI, or Hermes with a setup script, model, and first prompt in one step. Multiplex spots all six in any pane; helper chips follow the foreground agent — commands reach the process receiving your keystrokes; rearrange or add your own, synced everywhere. A message box takes longer prompts: autocorrect, dictation, attached or dropped files land in the pane's directory, sent as one message. Pro lifts the daily chip limit, alerts you when an unwatched turn ends or needs input (Claude Code, Codex, Grok Build on tmux; all agents on herdr), and opens Claude Code prompt history with transcript jumps. FILES & LINKS BESIDE THE TERMINAL Tap a link or path — Multiplex confirms the resolved target first. Files open read-only in the ▤ File Viewer: code, rendered Markdown, images, PDFs, sound files, git diffs. Web links can open in an inline ⌗ viewport. On iPad both land in a side panel beside the pane — the terminal never changes size — or move into a tab. WIDGETS & SHORTCUTS Put a host on your Home Screen — last-known frames, an honest SEEN stamp, SHELL and AGENT keys straight into a connection — or a fleet widget for every host at a glance. Shortcuts and Siri open a shell, show a remote file, or launch an agent in a chosen directory, fresh or inside an existing session. A multiplex:// URL scheme drives automations. MOSH BUILT IN With Pro, switch a host to mosh and the session survives sleep, roaming, and IP changes — a native Swift mosh client, no companion app. CONNECTION STATS A live latency chip on every host rail; Pro opens the full per-host board: round-trips, typing echo, mosh loss and roams, reconnects, data volume. Measured in-session; nothing leaves the device. A REAL TERMINAL xterm-256color emulation, multilingual system-keyboard input, touch and pointer clicks for mouse TUIs, hardware keyboards, live PTY resize, and a menu of everyday tmux (or herdr) commands. Hold CTRL for Key Commands: saved chords the software keyboard cannot press (Shift+Enter, a double Ctrl-C) and one-line text macros, synced everywhere. Pane-clamped selection on long press or double tap. System, Light, and Dark switch the whole chassis, each with its own terminal theme — ten built in; Pro adds an editor down to all 16 ANSI colors. The app speaks English, Traditional Chinese, and Japanese. OPEN SOURCE, PRIVATE BY DESIGN The complete app — terminal engine, mosh client, and all — is open source, Apache 2.0, at github.com/multiplex-term/Multiplex. Read the code that holds your keys, or build it yourself. Hosts, command setups, and secrets sync through iCloud Keychain, end-to-end encrypted. Nothing touches our servers — there are none. No account, no analytics, no tracking. MULTIPLEX PRO One purchase, no subscription: unlimited hosts, mosh, agent notifications, the Connection Stats board, the unmetered command strip, custom themes, and twelve Key Commands. Free includes two hosts, the complete terminal, five Key Commands, and 10 chip taps a day. WHAT YOU NEED A remote host reachable over SSH (password or ed25519/RSA key). The wall and persistent sessions need tmux 1.8+ or herdr 0.7.5+; plain SSH shells need neither. mosh needs mosh-server on the host.

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HopMosh

Features
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HopMosh は、iPhone・iPad から Mac やサーバーへ接続するためのターミナルクライアントです。SSH に加えて、不安定な回線でも接続が切れにくい mosh、tmux/screen を意識せず接続を継続できる herdr に対応しています。 【主な機能】 ・SSH / mosh / herdr での接続。herdr や mosh が未インストールの環境でも tmux やログインシェルへ自動フォールバック ・横画面では端末が画面いっぱいに表示され、セッション切り替えはサイドレールから操作 ・複数セッションをタブで管理し、ワンタップで切り替え ・キーボードアクセサリバーに矢印キー・Ctrl・Esc・よく使うコマンドのショートカットを搭載 ・初回接続の手引き(Mac 側の準備、公開鍵の登録、トラブルシューティング)を内蔵 【プライバシーについて】 本アプリは利用状況の分析・広告配信・行動追跡のためのデータ収集を一切行いません。接続先ホスト名・ユーザー名・SSH鍵・パスワードなどの認証情報は、すべて端末内の iOS Keychain にのみ保存され、当社や第三者のサーバーへ送信されることはありません。通信は指定したホストへ直接行われ、当社が中継・閲覧することもありません。 詳しくはプライバシーポリシー(https://hopmosh.watrix.co.jp/privacy)をご覧ください。 【動作環境】 ・Mac 側でリモートログイン(SSH)が有効になっていること ・mosh・herdr を利用する場合は Mac 側に Homebrew でインストール(brew install mosh herdr) ・同じネットワークに参加していること(Tailscale などの利用を推奨) 開発元: WATRIX合同会社

Screenshots

Multiplex4 screens
HopMosh3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: HopMosh at none against Multiplex's 1. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

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. Multiplex sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. HopMosh asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Multiplex versus HopMosh: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMultiplexHopMosh
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJhen Jie Hongwataru takahashi

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Multiplex

One-time1
  • Multiplex Pro$19.99
None

HopMosh

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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