SSH that survives a locked phone, a lost signal or a switch to mobile data. A small agent holds the shell open on the server and puts you back on the same screen. htop and vim draw properly. SFTP, keys, snippets and tunnels included, free.
I built Termphin because I kept losing work on my phone. A long-running job, an editor session, or an AI coding agent would die the moment I locked the screen or switched from wifi to mobile data. The usual fix is tmux but that means installing and configuring it on every server you use. So I added a small Rust helper that keeps the remote shell alive, even when the connection drops. The app uploads it over SSH, and a foreground service keeps the socket warm so the system doesn’t freeze it. It works very well with coding agents such as @Kilo Code , @Claude Code , @opencode , @OpenAI Codex CLI. Their tasks often run long and you don't lose them when you lose connection or app process is killed.
Right now, it only ships on Google Play. iOS and desktop versions are in progress, but I don’t have a release date yet.
What’s the one thing you wish your SSH client could do that it doesn’t today?
the "agent holds the shell open on the server" part is the interesting bit versus just a mosh-style client. is that agent something you install yourself on the server side, or does Termphin push it there automatically on first connect?
About Termphin on Product Hunt
“SSH client with sessions that never drop.”
Termphin launched on Product Hunt on September 20th, 2026 and earned 116 upvotes and 4 comments, placing #6 on the daily leaderboard. SSH that survives a locked phone, a lost signal or a switch to mobile data. A small agent holds the shell open on the server and puts you back on the same screen. htop and vim draw properly. SFTP, keys, snippets and tunnels included, free.
Termphin was featured in Android (57.6k followers), Productivity (661.1k followers) and Developer Tools (519.7k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 293.6k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Termphin?
Termphin was hunted by fmerian. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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I built Termphin because I kept losing work on my phone. A long-running job, an editor session, or an AI coding agent would die the moment I locked the screen or switched from wifi to mobile data. The usual fix is tmux but that means installing and configuring it on every server you use. So I added a small Rust helper that keeps the remote shell alive, even when the connection drops. The app uploads it over SSH, and a foreground service keeps the socket warm so the system doesn’t freeze it.
It works very well with coding agents such as @Kilo Code , @Claude Code , @opencode , @OpenAI Codex CLI. Their tasks often run long and you don't lose them when you lose connection or app process is killed.
Right now, it only ships on Google Play. iOS and desktop versions are in progress, but I don’t have a release date yet.
What’s the one thing you wish your SSH client could do that it doesn’t today?