Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to PocketShell
A remote terminal for running AI on a mobile phone.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Fabric▲690Make notes, tasks, and search, directly from the terminal.
2023 · fabric.so · its alternatives →
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Hi HN community, I’m Zach, founder and CEO of Warp, and am excited to show you Warp, a fast Rust-based terminal that’s easy to use and built for teams. As of today, Warp is in public beta and any Mac user can download it. It works with bash, zsh, and fish. The terminal’s teletype-like interface has made it hard for the CLI to thrive. After 20 years of programming, I still find it hard to copy a command’s output; I always forget how to use `tar`; and I always have to relearn how to move my cursor. To fix fundamental accessibility issues, I believe we need to start innovating on the terminal,…
2022 · warp.dev · its alternatives →
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LinkShell▲74Control your AI terminal sessions from your phone.
Apr 2026 · liutianjie.github.io · its alternatives →
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Vibe Pocket▲135Run AI agents like Claude Code, Codex, Opencode on mobile
Dec 2025 · vibepocket.com · its alternatives →
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Invoko▲472Clico is an AI studio that unifies deep web research, file Q&A, and image and video generation in a single conversational workspace. Use Clico Web in your browser, Clico Desktop across Mac apps, or the Chrome Extension beside any page. Choose models like Claude, GPT, Gemini,
Jun 2026 · tryclico.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · blink.sh · its alternatives →
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PocketCorder▲273Remote control your mac from smartphone
Dec 2025 · pc.shingoirie.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, Small OSS project that i created for myself and want to share with the community. It's a declarative, scriptable, terminal-based IDE focussed on agentic engineering. That's a lot of jargon, but essentially its a multi-agent IDE that you start in your terminal. Why is that relevant? Thanks to tmux and SSH, it means that you have a really simple and efficient way to create your own always-on coding setup. Boot into your IDE through ssh, give a prompt to claude and close off your machine. In tmux-ide claude will keep working. The tool is intentionally really lightweight, because I think…
Mar 2026 · tmux.thijsverreck.com · its alternatives →
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TerminalPhone is a single, self-contained Bash script that provides anonymous, end-to-end encrypted voice and text communication between two parties over the Tor network. It operates as a walkie-talkie: you record a voice message, and it is compressed, encrypted, and transmitted to the remote party as a single unit. You can also send encrypted text messages during a call. No server infrastructure, no accounts, no phone numbers. Your Tor hidden service .onion address is your identity.
Feb 2026 · gitlab.com · its alternatives →
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A native iOS client for remote tmux workspaces, designed to feel natural on iPhone. - h3nock/remux
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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An SSH terminal for iPhone and iPad, made for herdr. Sealed agent notifications, keys in the Secure Enclave, and a terminal that feels native. Free for 14 days, then $129 once.
14d ago · pocketty.app · its alternatives →
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Moshi▲38I built an iOS app to interact with coding agents from my phone. Most remote solutions I've seen require installing a server or relay on your machine. Moshi is just an app — SSH/Mosh into your Mac/PC/Sandbox and you're done. The use case isn't really "I need to get back to my computer." It's more like: - I'm curious how the agent is doing on that refactor - I want Claude Code to research something for me (it knows my codebase, unlike a fresh chatbot) - I have an idea and want to tell the agent before I forget I just type what I want — or speak it. Whisper transcribes locally,…
Jan 2026 · getmoshi.app · its alternatives →
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agent-manager▲102The fastest workflow for developing with AI
Aug 2026 · agent-manager.dev · its alternatives →
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APX Terminal▲99Encrypted terminal and SSH client with built‑in AI assistant
Jan 2026 · apxterminal.com · its alternatives →
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Vibe-code games, then share them like TikToks
Aug 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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ClawTab▲76Desktop app to manage 20+ AI coding agents at once
Apr 2026 · clawtab.cc · its alternatives →
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What You See Is What You Get
2022 · hamsterbase.com · its alternatives →
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Our team lives in Slack, but we don’t have access to the Slack MCP and couldn’t find anything out there that worked for us, so we coded our own agent-slack CLI * Can paste in Slack URLs * Token efficient * Zero-config (auto auth if you use Slack Desktop) Auto downloads files/snippets. Also can read Slack canvases as markdown! MIT License
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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