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Herdr has released native app

54 points cherioo 3 hours ago 44 comments

flippant 1 hour ago | parent

I switched to herdr this year after a decade of using tmux, and I haven't looked back since. Herdr is wonderful, not only because of the coding agent integrations, but also because it uses libghostty under the hood. So no terminal-emulator-inside-another-terminal-emulator shenanigans.

If you prefer GUIs, I can recommend herdr-gpui which connects to a herdr daemon. It has a bunch of goodies like remote phone pairing, and a built-in browser integration to send screenshots and notes to coding agents.

https://github.com/penso/herdr-gpui

FluffyPancake 1 hour ago | parent

> Herdr is wonderful, not only because of the coding agent integrations, but also because it uses libghostty under the hood. So no terminal-emulator-inside-another-terminal-emulator shenanigans.

Now I’m interested. Does it have basic feature parity? How does it compare to tmux in your experience?

yoyohello13 1 hour ago | parent

I've been using Zellij a long time and considered using Herdr, but the VC funding aspect scares me. I don't want to invest a bunch of time in a tool that's going to treat me as a product.

skinfaxi 1 hour ago | parent

It's open source so if that changes you can always fork? I already have some personalizations accruing on my fork.

desireco42 1 hour ago | parent

I used Zellij in the past, it is also fantastic and intuitive product. I had issues with... I think selection and copying and pasting which made me abandon it as I was getting frustrated. Herdr has been wonderful and I've been using it for a while.

yako21000 3 minutes ago | parent

I could not work without it anymore, such an easy solution for a common problem. Will definitely try out the app as well.

sangupta 1 hour ago | parent

Haven't used Herdr before - was looking at README and was looking to check screenshots and documentation. However, Chrome reports the SSL cert to the site https://herdr.dev as invalid. Will wait till it gets resolved.

pupppet 1 hour ago | parent

How does it compare to CMUX?

desireco42 1 hour ago | parent

I don't think I need it, but Herdr has been absolutely rock solid for me. And I have this app Pairfob that I can check things up on the phone if I really want to. And while I don't use it quite as often, seems to be more solid then Chatgpt (Codex) and other apps.

I have 2 machines and laptop linked together and running things have never been easier.

tiffanyh 1 hour ago | parent

What’s the planned monetization model for all the terminal multiplexers backed by VC funding like Herdr, Rex, etc?

adamisnotroman 1 hour ago | parent

I think they are all planning to make money on selling cloud or inference

skinfaxi 1 hour ago | parent

If the terminal is just a screen to a remote, they will sell you the remote, completely integrated into the harness.

oefrha 53 minutes ago | parent

Being acquired for $10B by $1T companies.

Skunkleton 1 hour ago | parent

There is a Windows 98 mode w/ minesweeper, solitaire, and clippy!

Edit: oh neat! Its self editing.

adamisnotroman 1 hour ago | parent

Yep it’s awesome. I’m going to integrate the core engine to my mobile app so I can control it remotely.

skinfaxi 1 hour ago | parent

Collie already does pretty well. https://github.com/AltanS/collie

blntechie 1 hour ago | parent

Just termius + tmux works for me on my Android phone and iPad. I have a ntfy topic to alert from Pi when it needs something.

jbellis 1 hour ago | parent

If you like Herdr, you might also appreciate https://github.com/BrokkAi/mjolnir/, which is similar in its multiplexing features (although built on ACP) but offers cross-provider subagents, memory and session log sync, live migration of sessions across profiles and providers, and load balancing across multiple subscriptions.

Hitech-Redneck 1 hour ago | parent

I've been holding this at arms length. Interested, but I'm so stuck on tmux.

DaSHacka 1 hour ago | parent

Darn, title had me thinking they released a mobile app to compliment the TUI daemon.

termux+mosh is fine, but especially on a phone I'd love a slightly more intuitive (or really, efficient) UI. Especially as mosh breaks touch/mouse input on the remote host.

I've never understood the point of the desktop GUI harnesses to run TUI (or at the very least, primarily text-based) programs anyway, but perhaps they're better for onboarding less tech-savvy users.

sooheon 1 hour ago | parent

Have you tried moshi? It’s Herdr aware.

Tui-in-guis like orca are nice mostly because of sensible keybinds without prefix or leader

jasford 14 minutes ago | parent

Moshi is pretty fantastic. I’ve been using it for several months and it works great. The developer is also launching fixes and improvements every week. It’s gotten materially better over the time I’ve been using it and it started out pretty great.

adamisnotroman 1 hour ago | parent

try cosyra mobile. Its the best mobile client for herdr. It uses websocket and is has a really smooth ux.

ziofill 1 hour ago | parent

> Usage telemetry is on by default in releases. Turn it off in Settings → Privacy.

Probably a good idea if you work with sensitive data (and you’re already on Zero Data Retention)

game_the0ry 1 hour ago | parent

This is the first time I have even hear of Herdr, and I try to make an effort to follow ai.

It's getting very difficult to keep up with all the agent harnesses coming out. I love ai but wow its hard to keep up.

ramraj07 1 hour ago | parent

Herdr is not exactly obscure. I would argue your effort to follow ai hasn’t been that effective.

drTobiasFunke 3 minutes ago | parent

I have been using herdr for a few months. Then i bought a new machine, installed claude code and asked it to setup herdr. Shockingly claude said it has no idea what herdr was. This was weird.

So I wouldn’t blame the commenter above.

yodon 1 hour ago | parent

A native app is definitely a good thing.

herdr is great, and the original runs-in-a-terminal vision was cool, but at least on OSX it has a ton of selection management bugs that are pretty sucky.

oefrha 1 hour ago | parent

Supports SSH to remote machines out of the box, cool. I wonder if the protocol is more efficient than the TUI over SSH, would be nice on crappy connections when traveling.

adamisnotroman 1 hour ago | parent

the poor experience on a crappy network connection is an SSH problem unfortunately

oefrha 59 minutes ago | parent

It is, but if you send more efficient deltas, batch packets more intelligently, and introduce non-blocking UI tricks, the experience can be improved by quite a bit. mosh demonstrates some of that.

mark_l_watson 1 hour ago | parent

Nice! I have been using herdr for a few months, love it and for me it is a step up from years using tmux. The new native Herdr app is yet another step up. I use multiple Macs with Tailscale connections and the Herdr app makes jumping around to different projects and different machines easier.

jauntywundrkind 57 minutes ago | parent

Which of these various new multiplexers (herdr, cmux, etc) work over ssh, and which have protocols underneath?

I've been scripting tmux for a while now, and it's not the greatest. And when I have a bunch of opencode sessions rolling along often my tmux could usage is smoking. I'd be happy to try other things. But I'd way rather get into something with protocols, that is open to play.

lucas_the_human 46 minutes ago | parent

I love herdr, nice work team!

steve_adams_86 37 minutes ago | parent

Is anyone else finding that it doesn't pick up Claude Code agents? My Agents pane stays empty no matter how many instances I start and work in. Appears to continue to work fine in herdr, though.

pdantix 30 minutes ago | parent

feels like they're trying to get ahead of superlogical's rex.

took all of installing it on windows and setting up my mac as an SSH machine to see the slop all through the UI. i'll just wait for rex's windows client i guess.

thewisenerd 29 minutes ago | parent

while they do this, i hope they do not drop support for regular/other terminals

ignoring ALL the AI/agent features, herdr has been a decent replacement for tmux with saner defaults

so much so that i'm reaching for installing herdr instead of tmux and i would like to not be locked to a "desktop app" for it

rao-v 23 minutes ago | parent

+1 I tried quite hard to make things work with tmux, zellij, and even some light custom stuff, but if you have multiple agents running on multiple boxes herdr just works unreasonably well. I really didn't want to like what seemed like a random mix of features, but they've stabilized it to a sensible capability set.

ghempton 23 minutes ago | parent

If you like the idea of herdr, but want something that isn't opinionated on terminal vs. desktop app and has mobile support, you might like https://github.com/codealong/codealong

loveparade 15 minutes ago | parent

I really enjoyed herdr at first but ever since they got VC funding I am avoiding it. Enshittification and cloud features due to vc/monetization pressure incoming.

rvz 14 minutes ago | parent

Since you used herdr before it got funding, were you going to donate or pay for it without VC funding?

dang 9 minutes ago | parent

Related:

Herdr Studio - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49652188 - Sept 2026 (20 comments)

Connecting the machines - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49612818 - Sept 2026 (35 comments)

Herdr now connects to multiple servers with a single client - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49602323 - Sept 2026 (3 comments)

Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201003 - Aug 2026 (189 comments)

Herdr: One terminal to rule them all - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48756578 - July 2026 (178 comments)

Herdr: Agent multiplexer that lives in your terminal - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48714802 - June 2026 (110 comments)

kelvinjps10 1 minute ago | parent

I hope they release a mobile app too