Multiplex — SSH tmux Terminal
Every session, its own window
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
A live wall of your tmux — or herdr — sessions, alerts when an agent needs you, and mosh that survives sleep and roaming.
Multiplex is a terminal for people who live inside persistent remote sessions — built native for iPhone and iPad.
THE WALL
Hosts probe concurrently. Every session is a live monitor: its actual last screen lines, one spine segment per window, red LIVE while attached. See the whole fleet before attaching; NO SIGNAL reconnects in one tap. Run tmux, or switch a host to herdr — one tile per session, its workspaces on the spine, agent state read from herdr itself.
A SESSION WHERE YOU NEED IT
On iPad, attach opens each session in a real scene for Stage Manager, Split View, and external displays. Merge windows into tabs and split them back out — the SSH connection, buffer, and scrollback move with the tab, so shells never drop. On iPhone, the wall and terminal share one adaptive full-screen shell.
BUILT FOR AI AGENT SESSIONS
Start Claude Code, Codex, or Pi with an optional setup script, model, and first prompt in one step. Multiplex spots all three across every pane, and helper chips follow the foreground agent so commands reach the process receiving your keystrokes — rearrange them, add your own, and every host remembers its setup on all your devices. Pro removes the daily chip limit, alerts you when an unwatched turn finishes or needs input (Claude Code and Codex on tmux, all three on herdr), and opens Claude Code prompt history with one-tap transcript jumps. Attach or drop files on tmux and herdr tabs: Multiplex uploads into the pane's working directory and types the remote path.
WIDGETS & SHORTCUTS
Put a host on your Home Screen — last-known session frames with an honest SEEN stamp, plus SHELL and AGENT keys straight into a connection — or a fleet widget showing every host at a glance. Shortcuts and Siri open a shell or launch an agent in a chosen directory, as a fresh session or inside one you already have, and a multiplex:// URL scheme drives your own automations.
MOSH BUILT IN
With Pro, switch a host to mosh and the session survives sleep, roaming, and IP changes — a native Swift mosh client, no companion app.
A REAL TERMINAL
Full xterm-256color emulation, multilingual system-keyboard input, touch and pointer clicks for mouse-aware TUIs, hardware keyboards, live PTY resize, and a built-in menu of everyday tmux commands — with herdr's own set on herdr tabs. Long-press, double-tap, or secondary-click for pane-clamped text selection on either backend. System, Light, and Dark switch the whole chassis, each keeping its own terminal theme — ten built in, and Pro adds an editor for background, text, cursor, and all 16 ANSI colors.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
Hosts, agent-command setups, and secrets sync between your devices through iCloud Keychain, end-to-end encrypted. Nothing touches our servers — there are none. No account, no analytics, no tracking.
MULTIPLEX PRO
One purchase, no subscription: unlimited hosts, mosh, agent notifications, the unmetered command strip, and custom themes on all your devices. Free includes two hosts, the complete terminal, and 10 agent-command chip taps a day.
WHAT YOU NEED
A remote host you can reach over SSH (password or OpenSSH ed25519/RSA key). The live wall and persistent sessions need tmux 1.8+ or herdr 0.7.5+; plain SSH shells work without either. mosh needs mosh-server on the host.
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Multiplex 1.3.0 — run herdr instead of tmux, select text in any pane, and hear from your agents after you've walked away.
• Choose a session backend per host. Host Settings → Backend switches between tmux and herdr 0.7.5+: one deck tile per herdr session, its workspaces on the tile's spine, live miniatures, and agent state read from herdr itself. Attaching, merging, detaching, file attachment, shortcut panels, and agent history all work on either backend.
• Or show both on one host. Each refresh quietly asks the other multiplexer whether it has sessions; when it does, that host's rail offers to add them, saying what the extra checking costs. Accept and both backends' sessions share one deck, herdr's tiles in a lighter chassis; long-press the offer to stop being asked on this device. Backend is a check selection now — tick tmux, herdr, or both, with a choice of which one new sessions run on — and New Session, the Open Shell and Open Agent Shortcuts, the Host widget, and Add Host → BIND all carry that choice on a host running both.
• Long-press or double-tap terminal text — or secondary-click with a mouse or trackpad — for SELECT / SELECT ALL / PASTE right at the gesture. The selection stays inside the pane you pressed on split layouts, a floating bar carries COPY and DONE beside it, and taps stop reaching the remote until you finish. On herdr tabs the block adds MENU, which opens herdr's own pane menu where your finger was.
• Keep a host alive after you leave. Host Settings → Monitoring adds a second switch, off by default: that host's sessions and probing survive the extra running time iOS grants a departing app, and iOS can wake Multiplex later to check it again, so an agent finishing while you are elsewhere can still reach you. The timing is iOS's call, and nothing runs in the background for a host you did not switch on.
• Agent alerts now reach you about the session you were last looking at — the one most likely to be running an agent, and the one that used to stay silent. Notification permission is asked while Multiplex is on screen instead of riding your first alert.
• On iPad, a terminal window wears its own title bar: DECK, the session title, LIVE, A− A+, + TAB, FILE, TMUX, and DETACH on one slim row that matches the key rail at the other end of the pane.
• Drag window tabs into the order you want. The File Viewer gains tabs of its own — long-press a file in the tree to open it beside the first — plus ◂ ▸ browse history, and it keeps DIFF selected as you move between changed files. Reading size is yours: A− / A+ on the ▤ tab's rail or a pinch, remembered and applied to every file viewer tab.
• Every terminal carries a GUIDE chip, an illustrated field manual of that tab's gestures.
• Under mouse reporting each tap now reaches the remote immediately, one click per tap, so a TUI's own double-click lands. Widgets and Shortcuts can launch agents on herdr hosts and into an existing session. Settings → About lists every open-source component in the binary with its full license text.
• The agent strip no longer carries STOP: press ESC on the key rail to interrupt a turn.
• Rebuilt on UIKit throughout, for steadier typing, scrolling, and window handling.
The developer, Jhen Jie Hong, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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Information
- Seller
- Jhen Jie Hong
- Size
- 16.7 MB
- Category
- Developer Tools
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Multiplex Pro $19.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Jhen-Jie Hong
