Chime keeps every pane in view on your Mac, and opens the same sessions on your phone.
Try it: click a pane or a tab, or add one with +.
v0.10.0 · macOS 14+ · free and open source
On the Mac
Chime lays your terminals side by side in a single row. The one you are working in is wide; the rest stay on screen as slivers, so a finished build or a waiting prompt is something you see, not something you go looking for.
Click a sliver or its tab and focus slides over. ⌘[ and ⌘] step through the panes from the keyboard.
Each pane keeps one of ten accent colors on its tab and its border, and the dot on its tab pulses when a background pane rings the bell.
Shells run in a small background server. Quit Chime or install an update, and what was running is still running when you come back.
Open several windows and drag tabs and panes between them.
The terminal itself is libghostty, in a native Swift app. No Electron.
New versions arrive in the app, as small patches when one is available.
Chime: Mobile Terminal · beta
Chime for iPhone and iPad opens the terminals already running on your Mac. Start something at your desk, then check on it, or type into the same shell, from wherever you are.
Add your Mac and its open panes appear by name and folder. Tap one to pick it up, or start a new one from the phone.
The phone and the Mac can show the same session at once. One of them sets its size, and either can take over.
The app reaches your Mac through Remote Login. There is no account to make and no server of ours in between.
Esc, Ctrl, Tab and arrows sit above the keyboard, and the mic button types what you say.
A machine without Chime opens as a plain SSH shell.
Needs Chime 0.10 or later on the Mac, with Remote Login turned on. There is an Android app too, for now built from source.