# Rex by Superlogical

21 Hacker News commenters recommended Rex by Superlogical and 2 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** People praise its polished look, fast performance and remote access, and say it keeps services running and restarts them. Critics note it lacks Headscale support and quick select.

## Why people recommend it

- Polished look, feel and performance (2 comments): "Rex has the polish, attention to detail, and attention to performance." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50310368)) "It's really, really good. Feels and looks great." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50301363))
- Keeps services running and restarts them (2 comments): "it maintains my services and restarts them accordingly" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50308822)) "smartly use herdr (also using rex) to set up a persistent service on those computers" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50300533))
- Good remote access and iOS app (2 comments): "its remote access is pretty slick" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50270714)) "it's great and I really like the iOS app too" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50262768))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [tmux](https://hackerapproved.com/p/tmux.md): 411 recommend
- [Herdr](https://hackerapproved.com/p/herdr.md): 232 recommend
- [Zellij](https://hackerapproved.com/p/zellij.md): 93 recommend
- [GNU Screen](https://hackerapproved.com/p/gnu-screen.md): 33 recommend
- [zmx](https://hackerapproved.com/p/zmx.md): 23 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Rex by Superlogical", https://hackerapproved.com/p/rex/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).