HerdrChat vs Landline

Your coding agents, away from your desk. HerdrChat is an SSH chat client for Claude Code, Codex and OMP sessions running on a computer you own. Check progress, read conversations and answer an agent without navigating a desktop terminal on a small screen. STAY ON TOP OF YOUR WORK See which conversations need your input, which agents are working and which are idle. Replies read like a document, with code and formatting, and each run of tool activity folds into one line ("Ran 3 commands · edited 1 file") you can open. The chat header shows the model and effort level. Reply from the chat composer or use supported numbered choices when an agent asks for approval. Pin the chats you care about to the top, and mute notifications for the ones you don't. SLASH COMMANDS Type / to send Claude Code commands such as /model, /effort, /compact and /context. When a command opens a picker, it appears on your phone: choose a model or effort level and apply it for this session only or as your default. KNOW WHEN AN AGENT NEEDS YOU Turn on notifications and your computer tells you when an agent is waiting for you or has finished, with the chat's name and what the agent said. Tap one to open that chat. SEND A PICTURE Attach screenshots or photos to a message. They are copied to your computer over the same SSH connection and handed to the agent with your prompt. MADE FOR iPHONE AND iPAD On iPhone, move between your chats, hosts and settings. On iPad, keep the conversation list beside the selected chat, with a settings layout designed for the larger screen. Light and dark appearances are included. YOUR MACHINE, YOUR CONNECTION Connect over SSH using your own password or private key. Host-key fingerprints are pinned, and a changed host key stops the connection until you explicitly review it. Tailscale is recommended for reaching your computer privately. Credentials are kept in the device Keychain. Conversation caches stay on your device and can be cleared in Settings. HerdrChat has no account system, developer-operated chat server, advertising or analytics SDK. If you turn on notifications, they pass through a small HerdrChat relay that forwards them to Apple and keeps nothing. TRY THE BUILT-IN DEMO A short welcome on first launch walks through what your computer needs. The local Demo host is available without an account, server or purchase. Explore sample conversations, answer an approval prompt and send a sample message. Demo replies are simulated; nothing is sent to a computer or AI service. WHAT YOU NEED FOR REAL USE A computer you administer, reachable over SSH, with herdr and Claude Code, Codex or OMP installed and configured. Agent accounts and any provider charges are separate and are not supplied by HerdrChat. The agents and their commands run on your computer, not on your iPhone or iPad. HerdrChat does not include an AI subscription. Open source under Apache-2.0: github.com/cobanov/herdrchat

A terminal on your iPhone and iPad for the machines you already own, reached over your own Tailscale network. You run a small open source daemon on your Mac, Linux box or Windows machine. The app gives you a real shell on any of them. There is no VPN to configure, no port to open, no SSH key to manage, no account to create, and no server between you and your machine. WHAT IT IS NOT Terminal only, permanently. No file browser, no remote desktop, no cloud sync, no telemetry. One job. SESSIONS THAT SURVIVE A phone changes networks constantly. Your shell should not care. Sessions stay alive on the machine, so you can lock the phone, ride the metro through dead zones, and pick the session back up exactly where it was, scrollback intact. BUILT FOR TMUX Set your leader key per machine, C-a or C-b or anything else, and it becomes one key on the bar. Add one tap keys for new window, next, zoom, or jump straight to window 1 through 9. They follow whichever leader that machine uses, so one layout is correct everywhere. A KEY ROW YOU DECIDE Esc, Tab, sticky Ctrl and Alt, arrows, punctuation, control codes, and your own sequences. Reorder it, or define a key that sends exactly the bytes you want and see them in hex before you save. TERMINALS SHOULD LOOK RIGHT Nine schemes, matched to the published values: One Dark Pro, Catppuccin Mocha and Latte, Tokyo Night, Gruvbox, Dracula, Nord, Solarized, Rose Pine. True colour, 256 colour, and correct box drawing. Ships with a Nerd Font so prompt icons render instead of empty boxes, and can use any monospace font installed on your device with the bundled face filling in whatever glyphs yours is missing. YOURS, NOT OURS Traffic goes straight from your device to your machine: encrypted by WireGuard inside your tailnet, and again by TLS terminated on your own hardware. We run no relay and no backend. We cannot see your sessions, your commands, or your machines, because there is nowhere for them to reach us. The daemon is open source and MIT licensed. Read it, build it, run it: github.com/mhrsntrk/landline REQUIREMENTS Tailscale on your device and on each machine, and the landlined daemon installed there. One command with Homebrew, or one script otherwise. The daemon is free. TRIAL AND ONE-TIME UNLOCK Download free and try every terminal feature for seven days. The trial starts only when you choose to start it. After the trial, unlock Landline for $2.99 USD, paid once. Your local App Store price is shown before starting. No subscription. No automatic charge. After expiry, terminal connections require the unlock. Hosts, settings and snippets stay saved. Remote sessions detach without being killed by the app and follow your daemon's usual idle timeout. Existing App Store users keep full access. Restore purchases from Settings > Trial & purchase.