rootshell: Local Terminal, SSH

I was originally very suspicious of this app due to some detected high background activity. However, after a couple of weeks of careful packet monitoring I see I was mistaken! This is an excellent application with a nice interface and I can confirm it does not phone home.

Coming from competition, I was having lots of issues with artifacting, especially re-renders coming from the codex/gemini cli. This blows everything else out of the water in terms of performance while solving the issues I was having on other terminals. If you have a neovim + tmux setup (or terminal first in general); rootshell feels extremely snappy and customization/setup was straightforward. It utilizes Ghostty’s “engine” (libcore) under the hood hence the great performance. One of my favorite features is the fullscreen mode avoiding the clunky UI that many other options have.

Normally don’t write reviews but honestly the work here is stellar. This is far better than even any of the paid terminals available on iOS/iPadOS. Not even close. There are a few kinks at the moment (reconnecting a tssh session after a while away sometimes fails, can’t seem to move tabs around), but this is new and I assume will get ironed out relatively quickly. I like it so much that I swapped my Mac over from Cmux/ghostty, which says a lot despite the kinks. It is worth your time to try, even on macOS. My only real complaint is that I have no way to give money to this dev (not that free isn’t awesome and makes the software really accessible, but I wouldn’t mind giving at least *something*)