Moshi SSH and Mosh terminal for iOS
Hacker ApprovedRanked 4 of 13 SSH clients by recommenders
Recommended for working out of the box, tmux session handling and shortcuts on iOS. Critics say it gets clunky and isn't worth it over Termux.
Recommended for working out of the box, tmux session handling and shortcuts on iOS. Critics say it gets clunky and isn't worth it over Termux.
18 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 16
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 89%
Recommended in 8 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 16 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 8 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 8 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Good tmux and terminal support
“Has a lot of shortcuts you can add for common commands of tmux, CC”
Comment from 8 Jul 2026 in “Herdr: One terminal to rule them all” “renders the terminal and manages tmux sessions well”
Comment from 6 May 2026 in “A Desktop Made for One” Works well and keeps improving
“It’s gotten materially better over the time I’ve been using it and it started out pretty great.”
Comment from 30 Oct 2026 in “Herdr has released native app” “it works well and has live Claude/Codex/etc notifications”
Comment from 6 Aug 2026 in “Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open” Strong personal recommendations
“This is by far the best I've used so I wanted to share”
Comment from 10 Sep 2026 in “Moshi – SSH and Mosh Terminal for Claude Code and AI Agents” “I DO NOT find it worth it but I LOVE Moshi.”
Comment from 20 Sep 2026 on Hacker News
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Clunky at times
“Termux and moshi provide the full functionality of the terminal but it gets clunky sometimes”
Comment from 8 Sep 2026 in “Connecting the machines” Not worth it over Termux
“I DO NOT find it worth it but I LOVE Moshi.”
Comment from 20 Sep 2026 on Hacker News “I did not find it worth it compared to using mosh or SSH in Termux”
Comment from 7 Aug 2026 in “Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open”
Other SSH clients people recommend
The four most recommended other SSH clients, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mosh | 61 | 10 | 86% | 12 | — | Approved |
| SSH | 57 | 17 | 77% | 12 | — | Approved |
| Termius | 33 | 16 | 67% | 8 | — | Approved |
| Moshi SSH and Mosh terminal for iOSThis page | 16 | 2 | 89% | 8 | — | Approved |
| Echo SSH and mosh client for iOS | 14 | 5 | 74% | 1 | — | — |
What people said
15 of the 19 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Integrates with Herdr TUI”
“It’s gotten materially better over the time I’ve been using it and it started out pretty great.”
“I DO NOT find it worth it but I LOVE Moshi.”
“This is by far the best I've used so I wanted to share”
“at least with moshi everything works out of the box”
“Termux and moshi provide the full functionality of the terminal but it gets clunky sometimes”
“I did not find it worth it compared to using mosh or SSH in Termux”
“it works well and has live Claude/Codex/etc notifications”
“Has a lot of shortcuts you can add for common commands of tmux, CC”
“it helped save them a couple hours & helped make the architecture click faster.”
“renders the terminal and manages tmux sessions well”
“There's a really interesting project in Japanese natural language processing called J-Moshi that had a novel approach and in my opinion good results.”
“overlapping realistic full duplex as moshi/personaplex”
“moshi doesn’t sound good at all”
“Moshi was an amazing tech demo, building the entire stack from scratch in 6 months with a small team was an amazing show of skill”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.