TermRover
a native tmux-first terminal for iOS and Android
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I do a surprising amount of dev from my phone now: SSH into a box, attach to tmux, and drive couple of coding agents here and there.Termux gets me pretty far on Android, and I still love it for its simplicity. But once I had a few tmux sessions across a couple of hosts, I wanted something that reduced keystrokes and felt friendlier for driving AI agents, especially things like sending them images.On iOS, I couldn't find something that gave me a similar experience to Termux.So I built TermRover: a native iOS/Android terminal built around tmux sessions and windows, with shortcuts for the actions I kept doing over and over on mobile, while still trying to stay minimal.Short walk-through: https://termrover.sh/guide#quickrowIt's free for normal terminal/SSH/tmux work. The paid tier unlocks themes and convenience extras for agent workflows: unlimited image attachments and voice mode.Mosh isn't supported yet, but I'm working on it. Honestly, I hadn't used Mosh before building this. Enough people have asked for it that I clearly need to support it.Happy to answer questions or hear what feels missing.
HN · launched Jun 29, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 87%) · 0 views
Niche: mobile developer and terminal clients · 57 launches, 4 in the last 7 days ▼ -20% · Explore this niche →
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- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
Partial A basic mobile terminal wrapper is achievable, but an optimized tmux-aware mobile client requires parsing complex ANSI escape sequences, managing persistent background SSH connections, and touch-optimized tmux navigation on iOS/Android.
What it would actually take: The app needs a native mobile framework (Swift/Kotlin or Flutter) integrating a fast terminal emulator engine (like libvterm or Ghostty-core) and libssh2. The hard parts include handling background socket lifecycle and reconnections seamlessly on mobile OSes, decoding tmux control mode (`tmux -CC`) reliably, and mapping mobile gestures cleanly to tmux panes/windows.
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Competitors
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Attention rank: #95 of 109 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 241 days after the earliest competitor.
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