BentoTerm
Watch & talk to your agents
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Every pane is tinted by what its agent is doing — blue working, amber waiting for you, green done. Hold to talk instead of typing. The work lives in tmux and never stops.
Your agents run for forty minutes at a time. Watching one is a waste of you — so you run several, and the problem becomes keeping track of them all. Bento Term is a terminal built for exactly that.
A WHOLE TEAM, ONE SCREEN
Every agent gets a pane, tinted by what it's doing: blue is working, amber is waiting for you, green is done and you haven't looked yet. You read the room instead of visiting each one. Parallel mode tiles everything; Focus mode gives one pane the whole screen with the rest in a sidebar.
SAY IT, DON'T TYPE IT
Hold on a pane and talk. Speaking is about three times faster than typing, and Bento reads the screen, so file names and technical words come out right — mixed Chinese/English included. Slide up to send, down to cancel.
LEAVE THE DESK, NOT THE WORK
Everything runs in tmux on your machine — your Mac, a Linux server, or WSL — over plain SSH, with nothing installed on the other end. Quit the app, close the laptop: nothing stops. Attach from iPhone or iPad mid-run and answer from wherever you are.
EVERY DAY
- The file tree of every pane's working directory. Tap a printed path and it opens with syntax highlighting, even at :42. PDFs and images too.
- Panes move like windows: split, drag, drop — every move is a real tmux move.
- Pick a folder, pick an agent, and Bento opens the panes and starts them. No shell needed.
- Ten agents recognized out of the box — Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI and more — every profile editable, so a tool nobody has heard of yet is one profile away.
BUILT LIKE A TERMINAL
Native Swift, the same GPU renderer as Ghostty (libghostty), real tmux control mode (-CC). No accounts. Your terminal output never leaves your machines. Free and open source, Apache-2.0.
Requires a machine you can ssh into with tmux installed. macOS, Linux and WSL all work.
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Information
- Seller
- Chi On Ho
- Size
- 43.8 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+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Shang Gao
