RootDeck vs wmux

RootDeck is a fast, secure SSH and SFTP client for iPhone and iPad: a terminal, file manager, server dashboard and AI agent for the servers you already own. Connect to your servers directly — no RootDeck account and no cloud in between. Built for developers, sysadmins and DevOps who need their infrastructure on the go. AI AGENT ON YOUR SERVER • Chat with Codex, Claude Code, Grok or GitHub Copilot running on your own server, or with your own API agent for any OpenAI-compatible provider. • Install the agent and sign in without leaving the app. Choose the model and how hard it thinks. • Decide what the agent may do: read only, the working folder, Auto with a reviewer model, or full access — and approve requests as they come. • Add MCP connectors from the catalog, attach files and photos, and dictate — speech is recognized on the device. • Follow background tasks and your account's usage limits, and sign out to switch accounts. SERVER AND TERMINAL • SSH terminal with ten color themes, Day and Night mode, cursor styles and a key bar with function keys. • Inline command suggestions — RootDeck never runs them on its own. • Server dashboard: CPU, memory, disks, network, services and processes. • Live logs with pause, filtering and links. FILES • SFTP file browser: upload, download, copy, move, rename and delete. • Built-in text editor, file details and permissions. CONNECTIONS • Password and SSH key authentication, jump hosts. • Host key verification against man-in-the-middle attacks. • Find SSH servers on your local network. • Optional: keep your session alive when you switch apps, with a connection card on the Lock Screen. • Linux, macOS and Windows OpenSSH servers. PRIVACY Credentials stay in Apple Keychain. SSH traffic goes straight between your device and your servers; the AI agent talks to its provider from your server, and API keys stay there. RootDeck collects no analytics, and none of our servers sit in the path. Available in English, Russian and Simplified Chinese.

The remote app for wmux desktop. Pair with a QR code and every workspace and session on your computer is on your phone — pick up where you left off, read along, type, and answer. The free wmux desktop app (wmux.app) must be installed on your computer. It works with Windows 10/11 and macOS. Your code, shells and agents stay on your computer, not in the cloud, and there is no account. wmux never calls a model. It only mirrors the terminal on your own computer, so it works however your agents are set up there — with a personal API key, Amazon Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, a company gateway or a local model. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Watch a live terminal and type into it with a full keyboard — Esc, Tab, Ctrl and the arrows included • Read the same session as a native chat for Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode: prose, code, diffs, tables, tool calls and the images the agent worked with • Fleet shows what needs you now — permission prompts, questions and finished work to review — and Workspaces mirrors the desktop sidebar, workspace › pane › tasks • Bots lists the bots and groups wmux runs on your computer: read their conversations, send them a message, and answer their questions and approvals • Search wmux's conversations, sessions and scrollback on a computer, all at once • Answer an agent's permission prompt from the lock screen or its card — Yes takes Face ID and a hold — so a run doesn't sit idle until you are back • Answer with no signal — replies wait in a queue and go out when you are back, and a recovery center gathers anything uncertain • Send a photo or a dictated line straight into a pane • Open a pull request, squash-merge it or push from a pane's Source control • Use it on iPad too, with a readable column and a hardware keyboard • Keep the count in front of you with a Home Screen widget or a lock screen Live Activity Some features need the latest wmux on your computer. BUILT FOR A PHONE, NOT SHRUNK ONTO ONE Tables wrap to the column instead of scrolling off the edge. Code blocks stay chips until you open them. The conversation groups by speaker so one turn reads as one turn. Everything is legible at arm's length in a dark room, which is where the notification usually finds you. WHAT YOU NEED wmux running on your own Windows or Mac computer — that is where your agents live, and this app is its remote. Get it at wmux.app. Your phone pairs by scanning a QR code and reaches that computer over your Tailscale tailnet, so it works away from home too. NO COMPUTER HANDY? TRY THE DEMO Open the app and tap "Try the demo" at the bottom of the pairing screen. It opens a sample workspace — an approval waiting, three sessions, a full transcript — with nothing connected and nothing sent anywhere. PRIVACY No account. No analytics. No advertising. Your pairing credential lives in this device's Keychain and is sent only to the computer you paired with. Notification contents are sealed on that computer and opened on your phone; the relay in between cannot read them. The lock screen Live Activity carries counts only — numbers, no text — and nothing is stored anywhere along the way.