BentoTerm vs Spunk Gauge
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Spunk Gauge
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Spunk Gauge is a live dashboard for the computers you run - render boxes, AI rigs, home servers, workstations. See GPU, CPU and memory load, temperatures and power for your Windows, Linux and Mac machines on one screen. FINDS YOUR COMPUTERS Spunk Gauge looks around your local network for machines that accept SSH logins and lists them. Tap one, enter its login (password or SSH key) and it is added. You can also add any computer by address. EVERYTHING AT A GLANCE - A card per computer with round gauges for every GPU, the CPU and memory - GPU temperature, power draw and memory use (NVIDIA GPUs via nvidia-smi) - Fleet summary: machines online, total GPU power, hottest machine, average load - A five-minute temperature chart for the whole fleet HEAT ALERTS Cards turn amber at the warning temperature and red at the kill level, with a banner you can dismiss, so a machine running too hot stands out straight away. NOTHING TO INSTALL The app reads standard system tools over SSH. No agent or server software is needed on the machines you watch. PRIVATE No account, no ads, no tracking. Your computer list stays on your device and logins are kept in the Keychain. Connections go straight from your device to your own computers. Try it first: tap "Try the demo" to see five sample computers with live-moving values.
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Verdict
BentoTerm and Spunk Gauge 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | BentoTerm | Spunk Gauge |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Chi On Ho | EYIMOFE PREST |
In-app purchases
BentoTerm
No in-app purchases
Spunk Gauge
No in-app purchases









