VVTerm

VVTerm uses libghostty, the rendering engine from Ghostty, for terminal emulation. That gives you accurate colors, true-to-spec escape sequence handling, and smooth scrolling, which matters most when you're running a TUI like htop or vim on a small screen. It's the difference between a terminal that feels like a real one and one that feels like a text box.

Standard SSH is the baseline, but VVTerm adds Mosh, Tailscale SSH, and Cloudflare Tunnel SSH. Mosh keeps sessions alive across network changes and slow links, which is exactly the situation you hit when you close a laptop lid and pick up your phone. Tailscale SSH and Cloudflare Tunnel SSH let you reach machines that aren't exposed on the public internet, so you don't have to open a port just to get in.

Server configurations sync through iCloud to every device signed in with your Apple ID. Passwords and SSH keys live in Apple Keychain and can sync via iCloud Keychain when you enable it. Set up a server once and you never type that host string again. Your credentials never sit in a vendor's own cloud.

The app takes voice input and turns it into terminal commands. It's an odd feature on paper, but it earns its place when you're on a phone with one hand free. Dictate the command, review it, run it.

You organize servers into workspaces, and each session opens in its own tab. The free tier gives you one of each, so the structure is really a Pro feature in practice. Once you're paying, unlimited workspaces and tabs mean you can keep staging, production, and personal machines fully separated. That separation pays off the moment you have more than a handful of hosts.

VVTerm doubles as an SFTP client, so you can browse remote files and move them around without a second app. Pull down a config. Push up a build. It's the kind of thing you reach for more often than you'd expect.