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Show HN: Echo, an iOS SSH+mosh client built on Ghostty

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Re: Show HN: Echo, an iOS SSH+mosh client built on Ghostty

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Post by cadamsdotcom »

Very nice! But, looking at the keyboard, there is a bunch of wasted space above the top row of keys that I just don’t understand how Apple put there. When you’re working with tiny text in a terminal every little bit of space matters and on tiny phone screens it’s crazy they would do something so strange. Does anyone know if it’s possible to remove that top bit of wasted space from the keyboard on iOS 26?

Re: Show HN: Echo, an iOS SSH+mosh client built on Ghostty

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Post by cyberpunk »

iririririr wrote: post #7

Nice. Hopefully it will evolve into something as good as termux on android. It won't ever be as good, because ios is a toy with rubber on all corners. Love that they copied the bar above the keyboard. Even with android custom keyboard that was a great feature, on IOS that's essential. oh, it's closed source. and lazygit (the least terminal based of all cli tools) being their inapiration doesn't inspire much confidenc…

I’ve been using blink on ios for years it’s opensource and works pretty well for me.

I actually kinda like working on my ipad this way (ssh’d into dev box) it’s not really distracting somehow and not having full jetbrains etc makes for a different kinda session.

shrug

Re: Show HN: Echo, an iOS SSH+mosh client built on Ghostty

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Post by ssgodderidge »

mmh0000 wrote: post #12

I generally use iSH[1] for my iPhone to Linux needs. Specifically, I like it because it's a standard Linux distribution with OpenSSH. Meaning all the things work like sftp, ssh, tunnels, and local clients like `mysql` tunneled through ssh [1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ish-shell/id1436902243

I also love iSH. However, I haven't been able to run agents directly from my phone on it like I would hope.

I spent a few hours trying to get GitHub Copilot CLI or Claude Code installed only to discover that the version of Node is pegged to 14, which prohibits installation of several of these tools via NPM.

Has anyone had success with this? I'd love to see the packages updated to support later versions

Re: Show HN: Echo, an iOS SSH+mosh client built on Ghostty

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Post by bonyt »

Neat, it's staggering that there hasn't been a good non-subscription option for a simple utility like this for iOS. I've used Termius for a while, but it pushes a subscription and AI features pretty hard.

I think this really needs the ability to generate SSH keys on the secure enclave, like Secretive[1] does on macOS.

[1] https://secretive.dev/

Re: Show HN: Echo, an iOS SSH+mosh client built on Ghostty

#29

Post by sgottit »

jasonjmcghee wrote: post #27

Nice job! Purchased. Would love to be able to make the font much smaller. It says "10pt font" but it is still larger than I need and would love the extra real estate.

You can pinch to zoom in and out beyond the defaults and get a lot of real estate that way. Thanks for the kind words!
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