rootshell

This has pretty much replaced Blink for me. rootshell is a Metal-accelerated terminal for iPhone, iPad, Vision Pro (ha!) and, surprisingly, the Mac, built on Ghostty’s rendering engine. It is buttery smooth, and has proper mosh support, which means my sessions survive Wi-Fi handoffs and network changes without dropping. The Ghostty bit matters because it means the rendering is fast, the font handling is good (it has Fira Code Nerd which has become by default), and the whole thing feels like a proper terminal rather than the usual iOS compromise. There’s also a built-in AI assistant that can execute shell commands locally, which sounds gimmicky but is surprisingly useful for one-off tasks when you can’t be bothered to type out a long find or awk invocation on a phone keyboard (I got it to work with a Gemini API key). The one thing I’m missing is the ability to install my own commands like I do with A-Shell lets you–local binaries, custom scripts, that sort of thing. A-Shell’s approach…