Comparison

gtmux vs RelayPulse

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

Head to head
About

gtmux

Monitor and control your terminal agents from your phone. See a live radar of agent states, send commands, and receive timely notifications for critical updates. This companion app enhances your workflow by keeping your coding agents accessible remotely.

Highlights
  • Live radar of tmux pane and CLI agent states
  • Remote command execution and agent control
  • Intelligent notifications for agent needs
  • Live Activity integration for Lock Screen
  • Secure, revocable sharing of sessions
  • Multi-language support (English, Simplified Chinese)
Features
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Manage coding agents and tmux sessions on your Mac or Linux server from your phone. Install gtmux on your Mac or Linux server and pair your phone. Claude Code, Codex, DeepSeek Harness, other coding agents, and ordinary terminal panes will appear on your phone, so you can follow their progress and respond while you're away from your desk. HQ (Headquarter) HQ is the command center for your agents. It follows their sessions, works out what needs your decision and what can continue, then catches you up on what changed. It acts on your behalf only within the scope you authorize, with a record of every action. As work progresses, HQ adds reusable lessons to your local knowledge base. It draws on what worked before when a similar task comes up. Your corrections and new evidence help it revise old lessons and its own approach, so it gets to know your projects and preferences over time. Session status The radar lists your panes and agents, with text, icons and colors for their status. For agents without a direct integration, gtmux can read the terminal screen to identify their state. Replies and commands Answer an agent or send a command to a terminal from your phone. Permission requests and recognized choices appear in the conversation. A Keys panel supports function keys and modifier combinations. You can also bring a session to the front on your Mac. Pairing permissions control terminal input; read-only access cannot type into a pane. Other features • Get notified when an agent needs you or finishes. • Start a new tmux session on your server from your phone. • Check available quota, reset times, account balances and recorded token usage. • See the current agent's state on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. • Share a link limited to the sessions you choose. Revoke it at any time; input access must be enabled separately. • On iPad, the radar sits in the sidebar beside the open session, with room for HQ and pending decisions. Hardware keyboard shortcuts are supported. • Available in English and Simplified Chinese. Connecting gtmux is free and open source, and runs on Mac and Linux. Connect from the phone app, terminal, browser, or gtmux attach on another computer. A menu bar app is also available on Mac. Install the server first, then pair your phone. Setup guide: ccy.dev/projects/gtmux. Anywhere access can use a gtmux tunnel without a VPN. You can also connect over your own network. Agents continue running on your server. Privacy gtmux collects no data. There is no account. Your sessions and your token stay on your device and your server. Notifications are sent by your server through a relay, which forwards them to Apple's push service without storing them.

About

RelayPulse

Features
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RelayPulse puts your server fleet in your pocket. SEE EVERY SERVER AT A GLANCE One screen shows the whole fleet: online, warning, stale and offline counts, plus total bandwidth. Each card carries what matters - the service you watch, connections, download and upload, CPU, RAM and disk. KNOW WHEN SOMETHING IS WRONG, NOT ONLY WHEN IT IS DOWN A server can answer while the service that matters has stopped. RelayPulse checks the systemd service you choose - a web server, a database, containers, a relay, a node - and the ports it should listen on, so you find out while it is still fixable. FLEET HEALTH A dedicated view ranks what needs attention right now and lists the busiest servers, so a hundred machines stay readable. REAL TOOLS, NOT JUST CHARTS Read service logs, see the top processes and disk usage, check the agent endpoint - over SSH, straight from the phone. Nothing runs until you confirm it. NO AGENT REQUIRED Add a server with its address and your SSH key or the server's password, and RelayPulse reads it directly. Nothing is installed on the server. An optional open-source metrics agent gives faster readings for large fleets. YOUR KEYS STAY ON YOUR PHONE Log in with an SSH key or with the server's own password, such as the root password from your VPS provider - the same choices as RelayPulse on the Mac. Create a key on the device and install it with one tap, or paste your own. Keys and passwords stay in the iOS Keychain. No accounts, no server of ours, no analytics, no ads. OPTIONAL AI DIAGNOSIS Bring your own OpenAI or Anthropic key and let the app summarise what went wrong and suggest the fix. Off by default. The key is stored in the iOS Keychain and sent only to the provider you chose, together with the error and the log lines it needs. The app never runs a command on its own. FOR RELAY OPERATORS Running Anyone Protocol relays? RelayPulse recognises them and adds relay tools - Nyx and the relay configuration - to those servers only. TRY IT FIRST Tap "Try Demo Fleet" on the first screen to explore the app with a sample fleet before adding your own servers. It is labelled as demo on every screen, and no server is contacted while it is on. FREE FOR A SMALL FLEET Monitor up to 3 servers free, with no feature withheld and nothing that expires. One purchase lifts the limit for your whole fleet. WHAT IT WORKS WITH Linux servers you administer yourself, reachable over SSH, with python3 installed - standard on Ubuntu, Debian and most distributions. RelayPulse is an independent tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by the Anyone Protocol project.

Screenshots

gtmux4 screens
RelayPulse4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: gtmux at none against RelayPulse's 1. RelayPulse's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 4 days). 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. RelayPulse sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. gtmux asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

gtmux ships an update every 4 days, RelayPulse daily. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
gtmux versus RelayPulse: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametergtmuxRelayPulse
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPod, Mac
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB6 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperChaoyi Chenbaris adiyaman

In-app purchases

None

gtmux

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

RelayPulse

One-time1
  • RelayPulse$6.99

Questions

Is gtmux free?
gtmux is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is RelayPulse free?
RelayPulse is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do gtmux or RelayPulse have ads?
Neither gtmux nor RelayPulse shows ads.
Which is updated more often, gtmux or RelayPulse?
gtmux ships an update every 4 days, and RelayPulse daily. Most recently, gtmux was updated on October 24, 2026 and RelayPulse on October 26, 2026.

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