Comparison

Senrigan Remote Desktop vs BentoTerm

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

Head to head
About

Senrigan Remote Desktop

Features
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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 โ€ข Combined and per-display multi-monitor views โ€ข Command, Option, Control, and shortcut keys โ€ข Japanese IME-friendly text input โ€ข Picture in Picture โ€ข Trackpad-style cursor control โ€ข Two-finger scrolling and pinch to zoom โ€ข 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.

About

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.

Screenshots

Senrigan Remote Desktop4 screens
BentoTerm4 screens

Verdict

The call

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.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

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

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
Senrigan Remote Desktop versus BentoTerm: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSenrigan Remote DesktopBentoTerm
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 โ€” better17.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size7 MB42 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKazuya SaitoChi On Ho

In-app purchases

None

Senrigan Remote Desktop

No in-app purchases

None

BentoTerm

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Senrigan Remote Desktop free?
Senrigan Remote Desktop is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is BentoTerm free?
BentoTerm is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Senrigan Remote Desktop or BentoTerm have ads?
Neither Senrigan Remote Desktop nor BentoTerm shows ads.

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