CatClaw Terminal

ClawTerminal turns your iPhone or iPad into a full mobile dev environment. SSH terminal, AI chatrooms, file browser, multi-agent orchestration, and a Mac-class workflow that fits in one hand.

Start a refactor on the train. Review a PR at lunch. Diagnose an outage from bed. Your Mac does the heavy lifting; your phone is the remote control.


WHAT'S NEW IN v1.4.0

- Apple Intelligence on-device - Save as Skill, /standup, and /whatif run entirely on iPhone 15 Pro and newer or M1+ iPads (iOS 26 with Apple Intelligence). No API key needed. Free, instant, private.
- ?prefix Search Mode - start any message with ? to run propose-evaluate-refine in parallel. Pin the winner to ground every follow-up.
- Save trajectories as Skills - long-press Select on any research or job trajectory, tap Save as Skill, auto-loads when a similar question matches.
- Push when jobs finish - /notifier setup (Apple Push from your Mac) or /notifier telegram (your own bot, no developer account).
- iOS 26 Writing Tools in the input bar and skill editor; SpeechAnalyzer for /voice and Speak with Search.


WHAT YOU GET

A Real Terminal
- Full SSH client with persistent sessions, themes, autocomplete
- Vim, htop, tmux, mosh - everything just works
- AI ghost-text suggestions; tap errors for instant explanations
- SFTP file browser with batch operations
- iPad multi-window, drag and drop, cursor support

Multi-Tool AI Chatrooms
- Claude, Codex, Gemini, or Aider - switch tools per chatroom
- Direct API mode or CLI mode over SSH to your Mac
- Apple Intelligence on-device when no API key is set (NEW)
- ?prefix routes a message through parallel exploration (NEW)
- Cross-session memory and custom skills tailored to you

Power Commands
- /research - in-app propose-evaluate-refine for about a penny per run
- /whatif - predict 3 likely outcomes before a risky command
- /frugal - strip the preamble for cheaper, faster answers
- /duck - Socratic rubber-duck debugging
- /standup - daily standup from yesterday's chat plus git log
- /wrapped - Spotify Wrapped style dev-activity summary

Multi-Agent Orchestration
- /batch, /team, /race, /orchestrate - parallel agents, side-by-side
- Quality, Balanced, or Budget model-routing presets
- Git worktree isolation per agent with --vcs

Background Jobs with Push (NEW)
- /submit runs long jobs in the background; push when they finish
- /notifier setup for APNs from your own Mac (Apple Developer account)
- /notifier telegram for universal push via your own bot
- Per-job cost tracking, budgets, auto-recovery

DevOps Toolkit
- /git, /health, /monitor, /security, /pr, /preview, /conflicts
- AI code review, live web preview, merge conflict resolver

Context-Aware AI (OPT-IN)
- Time, calendar, motion, battery shape Claude's tone and length

The Learn Hub
- 6 interactive tutorial tracks, 43 hands-on steps
- 36 written tutorials and 33 examples, bundled offline

Cross-Device
- /handoff between phone and Mac tmux sessions
- Shared chatrooms, iCloud-synced profiles, Apple Watch companion

Voice and Camera
- /voice and Speak with Search (iOS 26 SpeechAnalyzer)
- Snap and Code - point camera at a whiteboard, get code

Privacy First
- All credentials in the iOS Keychain
- On-device AI when supported - your prompts can stay on the phone
- No telemetry, no tracking, no ads


WHO IT IS FOR

- Developers who want their Mac available everywhere
- Indie founders shipping from the road
- DevOps engineers handling incidents from anywhere
- Anyone who wants Claude Code, Codex, or Gemini from a phone

Requires an SSH-reachable Mac or Linux server for heavy work. AI chatrooms also work fully offline from your Mac via direct API mode or Apple Intelligence on iOS 26.