Comparison

BentoTerm vs AnySSH

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

Head to head
About

BentoTerm

Features
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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.

About

AnySSH

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AnySSH is a free, open-source SSH client for iPhone and iPad, built for working on real remote machines. Connect to a host, open a real terminal, check git, browse files, and attach to tmux or herdr sessions from one native app. - Terminal: SwiftTerm engine, JetBrains Mono, touch gestures, hardware keyboard, accessory key bar, reconnect and session restore. - Git: status, commit history, and syntax-highlighted diffs, read straight from the host. - Files: a remote browser with viewers for source, JSON, Markdown, images, SVG, and video. - Sessions: tmux and herdr support, jump between sessions and panes, saved command snippets, job-finish notifications, and a lock-screen Live Activity. No backend, no account, no telemetry. Keys and passphrases live only in the iOS Keychain on your device. MIT-licensed and open source: www.getanyssh.com

Screenshots

BentoTerm4 screens
AnySSH4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: BentoTerm at 17.0 against AnySSH's 26.0. 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
BentoTerm versus AnySSH: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBentoTermAnySSH
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyโ€”Daily
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 โ€” better26.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size42 MB63 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChi On HoJUAN PATRICIO MARROQUIN GAVELAN

In-app purchases

None

BentoTerm

No in-app purchases

None

AnySSH

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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