HerdrChat vs DEVtoy

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

For those of you still writing code by hand (you're amazing), here's a free, offline-first toolbox for the small jobs that interrupt your flow. Pick a tool, paste your input, and get a result you can copy. DEVtoy includes 56 tools, grouped like this: DATA & FORMAT • JSON Format/Validate • XML Beautify/Minify • YAML to JSON • JSON to YAML • CSV to JSON • JSON to CSV • SQL Formatter • Color Converter • Number Base Converter • HTML Beautify/Minify • CSS Beautify/Minify • JS Beautify/Minify • TOML to JSON • JSON to TOML • JSON Lines Converter • JSON Schema Validator • JSONPath Tester • JSON Diff • JSON Flatten/Unflatten • XML to JSON • JSON to XML ENCODE / DECODE • Base64 String Encode/Decode • Base64 Image Encode/Decode • Base32 Encode/Decode • URL Encode/Decode • URL Parser • JWT Debugger • Hash Generator • UUID/ULID Generate/Decode • HTML Entity Encode/Decode • Backslash Escape/Unescape • Hex to ASCII • ASCII to Hex • Certificate Decoder (X.509) • Unix Time Converter WEB & TEXT • HTML Preview • Markdown Preview • HTML to Markdown • Text Diff Checker • Lorem Ipsum Generator • Password Generator • QR Code Reader/Generator • String Inspector • Unicode Inspector • String Case Converter • Line Sort/Dedupe • RegExp Tester • Cron Job Parser CODE & DEVOPS • HTML to JSX • SVG to React Component • SVG to CSS • cURL to Code • JSON to Code • Docker Run to Compose • Semver Range Checker • CIDR / Subnet Calculator The built-in tools process your input on your device and work without an internet connection. There's no account to create, and DEVtoy is free. If none of the tools quite fits, open Universal Tool, describe what you want done, and let Apple's Foundation Model help transform your input. It runs on your device, and is available on supported hardware with Apple Intelligence enabled on iOS 27, macOS 27, or visionOS 27 and later. Its output can be wrong, so give it a quick review before using it.