dotMux easy SSH with tmux Apple

dotMux easy SSH with tmux

Shells as native tabs & panes

Overview

Version:
1.8.1
Last updated: 2026-09-15
Ranking
#1,489,970 ▼ 11,346
Overall

Features & Capabilities

Your tmux, native — and now on every host at once. The list is your connection switcher, with live window previews, saved snippets, and SSH port forwarding in-app.

Stop fighting tmux on a touchscreen.

dotMux speaks tmux control mode natively and rebuilds your remote workspace as real iOS UI — the way iTerm2 does on the Mac. Windows and panes become native tabs and views you drive by touch.

NATIVE tmux, NOT raw text

  • Remote tmux windows become native tabs.
  • Every pane becomes a native view — focused full-screen on iPhone, true side-by-side splits on iPad.
  • Split, resize, and close panes from the app — pane menu, long-press, drag the divider, or keyboard shortcuts.
  • The window and pane pickers render your real terminals, live: pick a window by what's in it, not by its name.
  • Select and copy text with native handles; tap links in the terminal to open them.
  • If a host has no tmux, dotMux falls back gracefully to a plain terminal.

EVERY HOST AT ONCE

  • Connect to as many hosts as you like at once. Leaving a terminal doesn't disconnect it — work keeps running on every host you have open.
  • The host list is the connection switcher: live hosts marked where you already look, one tap away.
  • Group hosts into folders; each folder shows what's connected inside it.
  • Forward a remote port over SSH and open your server's web UI inside dotMux.

REAL SSH, DONE RIGHT

  • Password and public-key authentication.
  • Import your ed25519 or ECDSA (P-256) keys by paste or from Files — passphrase-protected keys included.
  • Or generate a key in the Secure Enclave: non-exportable, signed in-chip, never leaving the device.
  • Review and forget trusted host keys.
  • Connect directly from your device to your own servers. No middleman, no developer backend.

PICK UP WHERE YOU LEFT OFF

  • The session picker lists every tmux session on the host and marks the ones already attached.
  • Switch sessions in place, or create named ones on the fly.
  • iOS suspended the app? Jobs keep running on the server, and dotMux re-attaches and rebuilds your tabs and panes when you come back.

A KEYBOARD BUILT FOR TERMINALS

  • A helper bar with the keys terminals actually need: Esc, Ctrl, Tab and more.
  • Fully customizable: add, remove, and reorder every key — F-keys, Ctrl combos, arrows, even your own text.
  • Snippets: save commands globally or per host and run them again without typing them.
  • A multi-line composer for drafting long commands and agent prompts, sent in one go.
  • A drag-pad arrow joystick with press-and-hold repeat, sticky modifiers, and a hide-to-floating-dock control when you want the screen back.
  • Paste images from your clipboard — annotate them first if you like; dotMux uploads them and pastes the path (built for Claude Code).

MAKE IT YOURS

  • Terminal fonts: JetBrains Mono, Fira Code, Hack, IBM Plex Mono and more.
  • Color themes with live preview: Dracula, Nord, Solarized, Gruvbox, Tokyo Night and more — or import any Ghostty or iTerm2 theme from a file or URL.
  • Pinch to zoom with a live cols × rows readout; keep the screen awake while connected.

AUTOMATE IT

  • Shortcuts support: connect to a host, send a command, read the output back. Unattended runs, enabled per credential, for automations that can't stop to ask for Face ID.

SECURITY THAT STAYS ON YOUR DEVICE

  • Face ID app-lock, plus a second Face ID gate per credential, with a short configurable grace period.
  • Credentials live in the Keychain and Secure Enclave, bound to this device — never synced to iCloud, never sent anywhere.
  • A privacy cover hides the terminal in the app switcher.
  • dotMux collects no data. No analytics, no tracking, no ads, no account, no sign-up.

MADE FOR iPad TOO

  • One universal app for iPhone and iPad.
  • Open hosts side by side in multiple windows; built for hardware keyboard and trackpad.

PRICING

  • Free: save and connect to one host, fully featured.
  • Unlimited Hosts: a one-time $1.99 purchase to save as many servers as you like. No subscription. Restore Purchases supported.

Note: RSA keys are not supported (modern OpenSSH disables the SHA-1 ssh-rsa signature). Use ed25519, ECDSA (P-256), or a Secure Enclave key.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App
By:
Free Tomorrow
Version:
1.8.1 Last updated: 2026-09-15
Version code:
891336072
Creation date:
2026-06-24
Compatible devices:
Size:
29.61MB
URLs:
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Full description:
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Source:
Apple Apps Store
Data ingested on:
2026-09-19
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Developed by:
Free Tomorrow
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https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dotmux-easy-ssh-with-tmux/id6779584525
Website:
https://dotmux.app

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