Control your computer's terminal from your phone — without SSH
Get a live, persistent terminal to your own machine from an iPhone or iPad without an SSH server, keys or port forwarding — and a real file tree and Git UI alongside it.
A mobile SSH client gives you a shell — once you’ve stood up an SSH server, managed keys and dealt with port forwarding or a VPN to reach the box at home. If all you wanted was to check a build or restart a dev server from the couch, that’s a lot of setup for a terminal.
CodeMote gives you a live terminal to your own machine with nothing to configure beyond a one-time tunnel install — and wraps a real GUI around it.
No SSH, no keys, no port forwarding
Pairing is a QR scanover a Microsoft dev tunnel. The connection is outbound from your computer, so there’s no SSH server to expose, no keys to rotate and no router ports to open. Tokens are single-use and revokable from the Command Palette at any time.
The terminal keeps running
Shells run on your computer, not on the phone, so a build, a dev server or a long command keeps going after you background the app — and the live output is still streaming when you come back.
Get started
Install devtunnel, add the CodeMote extension to VS Code, run CodeMote: Start Mobile Session and scan. The tutorial walks through it, and CodeMote vs SSH apps covers how it compares to Termius and Blink Shell.
Take your dev environment with you.
Drive your AI agents, terminals and Git from your phone — with no cloud copy of your code.