Comparison

termi1 vs Grenade

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

Head to head
About

termi1

Features
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SSH, Mosh and SFTP on the iPhone. A terminal built so that fixing something from your phone is not a punishment. A REAL TERMINAL, NOT A VIEWER Complete, with colours, control keys and scrolling. Mosh keeps the session alive when you move from Wi-Fi to mobile data or the subway swallows your signal. And built-in SFTP: browse, upload and download files on the server without leaving the session or switching apps. SAY WHAT YOU WANT AND IT WRITES THE COMMAND You dictate and the AI writes the exact command. "Show me the nginx logs live" becomes journalctl -u nginx -f. "Close claude and open agy" becomes pkill -f claude && agy. You choose: Review writes each command so you press Enter; Safe auto only runs the limited set termi1 recognises as safe. Any change or unknown command waits for your Enter; a generated command carrying unexpected control characters is blocked, and informational text is shown neutralised. It knows today's tools, not just the ones from the nineties: claude, agy, codex, gh, ripgrep, fd, uv, bun, docker, kubectl, tailscale. IT KNOWS WHEN IT IS IN PRODUCTION Mark each server as personal, staging or production; termi1 never guesses it from the name. In production nothing runs on its own, and anything that deletes, stops or changes something is shown first with the reason and a read-only alternative: writing it takes a hold, and even then it is written without Enter. It protects what termi1 writes for you, not what you type. And it keeps a local receipt, only on your phone, of what the app wrote for you. YOUR KEYS NEVER TRAVEL Generate an SSH key on the phone itself: it is born here and never leaves. It is stored in the Keychain behind Face ID, like your passwords. You can also paste one you already have. MADE FOR TYPING WITH YOUR THUMB The row of keys the system keyboard hides. Your shortcuts one tap away. Tap to place the cursor. Split screen on iPad. And the microphone wherever you want it, left or right. EIGHTEEN COLOUR SCHEMES Two strips: nine vivid and nine pastel. The whole app adapts to the one you pick, not just the grid. WITH AN ACCOUNT, IF YOU WANT Your saved connections and shortcuts follow you to any device. Without an account the app works the same; they just stay on this one. WHAT IS FREE The terminal, all of it. Dictation, all of it. With an account, three AI commands a day. AI+ removes the cap. YOUR MAC, ONE CODE AWAY Install termi1 Companion on the Mac, press Pair and type the six-digit code on the iPhone: your key is installed with nothing to copy, nothing to paste and no editing of authorized_keys. If the Mac is on a private network such as Prialo or Tailscale, that same connection works away from home too. WHAT YOU LEAVE RUNNING IS STILL THERE A persistent tmux session, per connection: close the app, come back later, and the build, the migration or the agent you left working is where you left it. And at login, one line with the server's state: system, uptime, load, memory and disk. MORE KEYS, LESS TYPING The fn key opens the plane with F1–F12, PgUp/PgDn, Home and End, the one htop, mc and nano ask for. As you type, termi1 offers the command's options: β€œls” hands you -la; β€œgit”, its verbs. And the SFTP browser sorts by name, date or size, with preview and copy path. SHORTCUTS, SIRI AND THE ACTION BUTTON Open a connection or launch one of your shortcuts from Shortcuts, Siri, the Action button or Control Centre. termi1 always comes to the front: the key goes through Face ID and, on a server you tagged as production, Production Guard shows the command and waits. In sixteen languages.

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Grenade

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Grenade is a remote for the AI coding agents running on your Mac. Claude Code, Codex or a plain shell run in terminals on the Mac; your iPhone shows every one of them with a live status, and lets you read, answer and type from wherever you are. β€’ See at a glance which agent needs an answer, which has finished and which is still working. β€’ Approve a command, answer a question or accept a plan with one tap. The card shows the full command first. β€’ Read the terminal live, or the plain activity view of what the agent said. β€’ Type, paste an image, or hold the mic and talk. β€’ Start new sessions in any folder, and group them like tabs. β€’ Get a notification when an agent is waiting for you. Private by design. On your Wi-Fi the phone talks straight to your Mac; anywhere else it goes through a relay that forwards only end-to-end encrypted bytes. No account, no tracking, nothing collected. Needs the free Grenade daemon on your Mac: brew install holdgrenade/tap/grenade, then grenade setup. No Mac yet? Tap "Try a demo" on the first screen.

Screenshots

termi14 screens
Grenade4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: termi1 at 3 against Grenade's β€”. termi1 also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences Β· 4 level
termi1 versus Grenade: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parametertermi1Grenade
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysβ€”
AdsNoβ€”
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod β€” betterβ€”
Requires iOS15.0 β€” better17.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size38 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSAMUEL MORENO CONEJEROCroissant, Inc.

In-app purchases

None

termi1

No in-app purchases

None

Grenade

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is termi1 free?
termi1 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Grenade free?
Grenade is free to download, with no in-app purchases.

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