Senrigan Remote Desktop vs BentoTerm
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Senrigan Remote Desktop
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Senrigan is a remote desktop client for controlling your Mac from iPhone and iPad. No account or proprietary cloud is required. Connect directly to macOS Screen Sharing or another VNC-compatible server. Features โข Combined and per-display multi-monitor views โข Command, Option, Control, and shortcut keys โข Japanese IME-friendly text input โข Picture in Picture โข Trackpad-style cursor control โข Two-finger scrolling and pinch to zoom โข On-device connection storage with passwords kept in the iOS Keychain Privacy No ads, IDFA, or tracking. Optional, anonymous Firebase Analytics and Crashlytics help improve usage and stability; disable them in Common Settings. Your connection destination, password, screen, input, and clipboard are never sent. For access outside your local network, use a secure network path such as a VPN that you manage.
BentoTerm
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Your agents run for forty minutes at a time. Watching one is a waste of you โ 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 โ mixed Chinese/English included. Slide up to send, down to cancel. LEAVE THE DESK, NOT THE WORK Everything runs in tmux on your machine โ your Mac, a Linux server, or WSL โ 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 โ 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 โ Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI and more โ 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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Senrigan Remote Desktop at 15.0 against BentoTerm's 17.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Senrigan Remote Desktop | BentoTerm |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | โ |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod โ better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 โ better | 17.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kazuya Saito | Chi On Ho |
In-app purchases
Senrigan Remote Desktop
No in-app purchases
BentoTerm
No in-app purchases
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