Termphin vs Moshi
Moshi is a mobile terminal built for AI coding agents, with Mosh, on-device voice input and push notifications when a task finishes. Termphin is a free SSH client whose shell keeps running on the server when the connection drops, so an agent run carries on without you.
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Which one is for you
Pick Termphin if you want
- Nothing to install first
Mosh needs mosh-server on every host. Termphin uploads its own open-source agent over SSH, and the shell survives a closed app as well as a network change.
- A full SSH client
SFTP with a code editor, port forwarding, jump hosts and snippets, for everything around the agent run.
- Free
Moshi Pro is $9.99 a month. Termphin has no paid tier.
Pick Moshi if you want
- Voice
Dictate to your agent with Whisper running on the device, hands free.
- Knowing when it is done
Webhook alerts push a notification when a long task finishes, so you do not have to keep checking.
- Images in prompts
Paste a screenshot, annotate it and hand it to the agent from the terminal.
Moving from Moshi
- Keep Moshi for now
Nothing has to go. Start your next agent run from Termphin and compare.
- Bring your key
Moshi keeps keys in the iOS Keychain. Import the same private key file into Termphin, or generate a new Ed25519 key.
- Start the agent
Connect, run claude or codex, and lock your phone. Reattach later to the same session.
Sources
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