Tessera compared with the other iPhone and iPad terminals
How Tessera sits beside Termius, Blink Shell, Prompt 3, Secure ShellFish and Moshi — on price, on openness, and on what the app actually does.
An SSH client for iPad and iPhone without a subscription
What the no-subscription options actually are in 2026, what each one costs, and what you give up — including where Tessera is the wrong choice.
Yes, there is an open-source SSH client on the iOS App Store
iOS has long been said to have no GPL SSH client the way Android has ConnectBot. That is out of date — and the reason it was ever true is more interesting than the licence.
Running Claude Code and Codex from an iPad or iPhone
The SSH, mosh and tmux setup that keeps an agent running while you walk away — how it compares to Claude's own Remote Control, and when each one is the right tool.
Why your SSH session dies when the iPhone locks — and how to stop it
iOS suspends apps, phones change networks, and plain SSH survives neither. The fix is two tools doing two different jobs: mosh for the connection, tmux for the work.
Escape, Ctrl and everything else the iPad keyboard is missing
The Magic Keyboard has no Escape key and no Ctrl in the right place. Here is what actually works in a terminal — including remapping, and Shift-Enter for coding agents.