Hoshi means star in Japanese. It's the SSH and Mosh terminal I always wanted on my phone, with tmux, Herdr, and keys that change with the app you're in. It's open source, and it costs $4.99 once.
or build it yourself for free. It's MIT.
Every wish on that list is in the app today. Here's each one working.
I could read the code, fix what bugs me, and send a PR.
Granted ✦Hoshi is MIT-licensed on GitHub. The Mosh client, the toolbar, the Herdr integration: it's all there to read. Found a bug? Open a pull request. Want a feature I didn't think of? Fork it and add it.
$ git clone https://github.com/fcoury/hoshi $ cd hoshi && ./scripts/bootstrap.sh ✓ GhosttyKit built ✓ Hoshi.xcodeproj generated $ open Hoshi/Hoshi.xcodeproj ✦
three commands from clone to Xcode
I paid once and never saw a subscription screen.
Granted ✦$4.99, one time. Every feature is included and updates are free. The price exists to pay Apple's $99 yearly developer fee. Once that's covered, the price comes down. And you can always build it from source for free.
my session survived the train tunnel.
Granted ✦Hoshi has Mosh, written from scratch in Swift. Switch from Wi-Fi to cellular, lock the phone, ride through a tunnel. When you come back, you're still there. If mosh-server can't start, Hoshi tells you why, shows you how to fix it, and falls back to SSH.
three sessions, two over mosh
it dropped me straight back into tmux.
Granted ✦Hoshi finds your tmux sessions when you connect, with their names, window counts and last activity. Pick one, or start a new one. It remembers your choice, so next time one tap gets you back where you were.
Hoshi's own git log, in tmux, in Hoshi
I could check on my agents from the couch.
Granted ✦Herdr is built in. Attach to a Herdr session, or jump straight to one agent's pane. See which agents are working, waiting or done, reply to one, and follow it on the Lock Screen. Hoshi even imports your server's Herdr keybindings.
real Codex, digging through Hoshi's Mosh code
the keyboard knew what I was running.
Granted ✦The key bar changes with the app on screen. vim gets :w and ^R. Claude Code gets ⇧Tab and @. less gets q, n and G. Hoshi reads the terminal title and switches sets on its own. Try it.
I could add the keys I actually use.
Granted ✦Add your own keys, drag them where you want them, and build whole sets with their own match words and tmux-style prefix. If a command lives in your fingers, it can live on the bar.
tap + add to make a wish of your own
I had arrow keys without hunting for arrow keys.
Granted ✦Long-press the arrow key and it turns into a joystick. Drag in any direction and hold to keep moving. You can also swipe along the key bar. Tap to place the cursor in vim, pan to scroll, and pinch to resize the text.
the joystick, steering through vim
it looked exactly like my desktop.
Granted ✦The terminal is drawn by Ghostty on Metal, so it looks crisp. Pick from 50+ bundled Nerd Fonts and the themes you already use: Tokyo Night, Catppuccin, Gruvbox, Nord, Dracula and Solarized. Go ahead, try them on.
fcoury@devbox ~/hoshi (master) ❯ git log --oneline -3 414832e feat(mosh): explain why it failed 4c30083 fix(mosh): stop a leftover server b9ce2b1 fix(mosh): reliable SSP sender ❯ make test ✓ 692 passed 1m53s ❯
Ninety seconds, nine wishes, and the real app on a real server. No mockups.
1:34 · no sound needed
No. $4.99 once gets you every feature on this page and every update after it.
Apple charges $99 a year to publish on the App Store. The price covers that. Once it's covered, the price goes down.
Yes. Clone the repo, run ./scripts/bootstrap.sh, and open it in Xcode. You'll need a Mac and a free Apple ID to run it on your phone.
No account, no analytics, no ads. Credentials stay in the iOS Keychain, and Hoshi only talks to your servers.
Yes. Every session gets its own terminal in split view, and hardware keyboards work as you'd expect.
Open an issue on GitHub, or better, send the pull request. That's what wish nº 1 is for.
Hoshi is on the App Store for iPhone and iPad. The source is on GitHub for everyone.