Vibe42 vs BentoTerm

Vibe42 is your pocket terminal-first workspace. Connect your phone directly to your computer to run coding agents, review diffs, and control terminals on the go — zero config, zero lock-in. Pair once, and your Mac, Linux box or work desktop is a tap away: real terminals, your files, your tools - running where they belong. WHAT YOU GET - Real terminals, not a toy shell. Full PTY, 256 colours, and sessions that keep running when you close the app or lose signal. - Pick up where you left off. Sessions survive network changes, backgrounding and device switches: start on your laptop, continue on your phone. - Your files at hand. Browse, preview and edit the files on your computer. - Built for touch keyboards. A command bar, arrow and modifier keys, and gestures that make a terminal genuinely usable on a phone. - Many computers, one app. Group them into workspaces and jump between them. SECURITY - End-to-end encrypted. Traffic is encrypted between your device and your computer; our network can route packets but cannot read them. - Pairing, not passwords. Every device is authorized explicitly and can be revoked from any other device at any time. - Your work stays yours. We do not store your terminal output, your files or your commands, and we never use them to train models. HOW IT WORKS Install the free Vibe42 companion on the computer you want to reach, pair this device once, and you are connected. Direct peer-to-peer where the network allows it, relayed when it does not - the app switches automatically. Terms of Service: https://vibe42.ai/terms Privacy Policy: https://vibe42.ai/privacy

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.