Comparison

BentoTerm vs Marshal Stack

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

Marshal Stack

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Marshal Stack is one screen for everything you have already shipped. Your apps in the App Store, the sites and APIs behind them, and the servers you run yourself โ€” all read by one rule: green is fine, amber needs a look, red is down. WHAT IT WATCHES โ€ข App Store โ€” rating, review count, latest version, and the release state: in review, rejected, ready for sale. โ€ข Sites and APIs โ€” checked every minute, with the latency next to the result. A notification arrives when an address stops answering twice in a row, and again when it recovers. โ€ข Your own servers โ€” CPU, memory, disk, load and the heaviest processes, reported by a small agent you install with one line on a machine you already own. โ€ข Alerts that say what to do, not only what broke โ€” memory over the threshold, a process running from /tmp, a port that was not open yesterday. YOUR KEYS, YOUR MACHINES Connect your own App Store Connect key, or none at all. The server agent dials out over HTTPS: it opens no port, reads no files, touches no databases, and uninstalls with one command. There is no registration form. Sign in with GitHub, or just open the app and look around on sample data bundled inside it โ€” no account, no keys, no network. ON THE WRIST The same three states on Apple Watch. A glance tells you whether anything needs you, and a tap opens the one thing that does. Free. No subscription, no in-app purchases, no ads, no third-party trackers.

Screenshots

BentoTerm4 screens
Marshal Stack4 screens

Verdict

The call

BentoTerm and Marshal Stack are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
BentoTerm versus Marshal Stack: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBentoTermMarshal Stack
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyโ€”Every 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch โ€” better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size42 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChi On HoAlexandr Degteari

In-app purchases

None

BentoTerm

No in-app purchases

None

Marshal Stack

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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