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.
Herdr has released native app (github.com)
197 pointsby cherioo9 hours ago124 comments
flippant 8 hours ago
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.
FluffyPancake 8 hours ago
> 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?
aforwardslash 5 hours ago
I started using it last week, the tui interface is very polished and it is mouse-friendly. It also allows you to configure the notification channels. Its a different beast from tmox, I'd say its quite more user-friendly and gives you a list of your running agents and their status directly on the interface.
roflchoppa 4 hours ago
I was able to have a language model configure herdr with the same bindings that I was using in tmux.
It was a very easy transition from one to the other.
yoyohello13 8 hours ago
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 8 hours ago
It's open source so if that changes you can always fork? I already have some personalizations accruing on my fork.
desireco42 7 hours ago
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.
saghm 6 hours ago
Pretty much the first thing I tried to set up with I heard about Zellij and decided to give it a shot a while back was how to scroll back and copy paste text without using the mouse, since that's one of the core features of tmux for me. If my recollection is correct, the closest thing that I was able to figure out was some sort of built-in way to open output in a vim buffer, with the info I found when googling basically saying that it was intentionally not something the developers felt like it was important to implement anything closer to tmux for. Maybe it's changed since then but I distinctly got the impression that it using it would force me to adapt to a bunch of new workflows that didn't resemble anything I had seen before, and it didn't really seem worth the effort.
ajoseps 2 hours ago
I recently switched to Zellij with Ghostty and the selection/copy/pasting seems to work just fine. I previously used zellij and kitty and I would have issues.
blurbleblurble 3 hours ago
It's such a good experience. Try it out, later we fork if they pull anything funny.
CraigJPerry an hour ago
Same, but the cost of maintaining a fork fell through the floor in recent years. If a decent fork gains momentum, i can probably even stop spending tokens on mine.
yako21000 6 hours ago
I could not work without it anymore, such an easy solution for a common problem. Will definitely try out the app as well.
nylonstrung an hour ago
Herdr is great, one of the exceptionally few TUI applications I actually use daily
On the note of libghostty it does get me very excited about the new multiplexer thing Hashimoto is building with it
marcosscriven an hour ago
This thing, presumably: https://www.superlogical.com/rex/docs/installation
chrisvalleybay an hour ago
Rex (by Hashimoto/Superlogical) is good. It’s really, really good. Feels and looks great.
stingraycharles an hour ago
But I’m already using ghostty. I installed herdr but made the mistake of launching it from within tmux and had no idea how to close it.
I then opened it somewhere else, but I had no idea how to interact with it. I also couldn’t get two other windows to “join” the same herdr session, so I gave up and went back to tmux.
For someone who has used screen / tmux for almost 30 years at this point, what does herdr do that tmux can’t?
I use Claude Code extensively. I also use plannotator extensively, which is how I found out about it.
WinstonSmith84 35 minutes ago
It's all about agentic work. Tmux doesn't know what an Agent is. You use Pi, you use CC, you use Codex, ... they all have primary supports in Herdr with built-in integrations around each of these harnesses
But if you don't do any agentic work, Herdr has 0 value vs. tmux.
shepherdjerred 6 hours ago
Really happy to see this!
herdr is by far the most polished tool in its category. Software geared towards agents is usually vibe coded -- and you can tell. There will be bugs and edge cases and it feels like no thought/care was put into it.
herdr doesn't feel that way to me. The marketing/landing page definitely has LLM-isms, but the application itself is very stable and well thought out.
A true UI is the next logical step and they seem to have done the obvious things. The one surprising bit that nobody seems to be talking about (yet) is the entire UI looks like its controlled via "recipes", so you can customize the UI in ways that you couldn't with traditional software: https://herdr.dev/layouts/
I hope this means an official mobile app is on the horizon!
shepherdjerred 5 hours ago
Playing with this for a bit, the customization you can do is really cool. You can spin up an agent, tell it to add some functionality, and it all reloads instantly.
For example, I wanted to be able to hide chats from providers when my usage is out for the 5h/weekly period
I'm not sure how they're doing this considering it seems to be written in Rust
pveierland 2 hours ago
It is using JavaScript for user interface customization via:
ebr4him 4 hours ago
You probably haven’t tried Superlogical Rex then.
imagetic 2 hours ago
Got my invite today. My jaw dropped.
ashkankiani 2 hours ago
That's funny, I got tired of tmux the other day (it got into 100% spin loop from an unsigned int underflow used as a loop condition variable. and I debugged it all by myself like a big boy, without LLMs!) and built something that seems to be identical in architecture in terms of the "supervisor which allocates pty, just stream bytes, client decodes" part. I even use libghostty for the HW accelerated GUI I built. It's the right way to go imo and it's not too difficult to build... hence...
I don't really understand why they would turn this into a company. I become suspicious of products that raise a lot of VC money, implying that they expect a unicorn-ish valuation, where I don't see them being able to justify their valuation via obvious monetization techniques (e.g. selling a classic license for a GUI app where you get updates for some period of time, usually a year, and then you get to keep the software, but no longer get updates, just in case people forgot how things worked before subscriptions).
That usually implies something like selling cloud subscriptions, vendor lock-in, or selling data. I'm happy to be wrong, but it's just an extremely common pattern. And as an aside, I know there's an impulse to monetize everything, but I think we should probably fight that impulse.
monk_grilla 3 hours ago
Agreed. I was really sceptical of it and was in the camp of "tmux does all I need" but it is honestly fantastic and ever since they added the ability to access multiple ssh machines from one herdr session I just live inside it.
ilitirit 13 minutes ago
> herdr is by far the most polished tool in its category.
Can't speak to this, but I like that I didn't feel like I needed to try an alternative. It just did exactly what I needed it to do.
That said - I couldn't find a way to move a pane to a new tab. I can swap panes within a single pane (select -> right click -> swap with focused pane), but I can't find a way to do it between tabs. Maybe it's a skill issue. Anyone have any ideas?
ernsheong 7 minutes ago
Hmmm I tried it, but it didn't detect my open herdr sessions in the added machine. I don't see much benefit over herdr in Terminal/Ghostty, and I need to reconfigure my agents to make it work too.
Sandman 34 minutes ago
Herdr looks awesome, exactly what I need. However, automatic updates worry me in the light of recent supply chain attacks. I don't want be in a situation where one day I just find out I'm running malware on my computer. I'm not sure if there's an option to turn it off.
tjansen 38 minutes ago
Didn't have much time to try it this morning, but so far the Herdr app looks fantastic. I am already using herdr on the console to control Claude on my Mac Mini, but having to log in again after closing my Macbook was always annoying. And I missed seeing the code diffs and being able to commit changes in VSCode, which is still my preferred development environment today (with the Claude VSCode extension).
But Herdr app addresses both issues. I don't need to reconnect, and it has a diff tool that allows me to review and commit. Looking forward to work with it!
ezrabuenk 32 minutes ago
Does anyone have experience in how herdr compares to Zed?
I'm currently using Zed as my main "agent orchestrator" and IDE because it handles various simultaneous agents quite well, using different harnesses. I'm especially a fan of the diffs for code review and the ability to easily highlight code and add it to context. The way it handles worktrees and git is also nice, IMO.
overflowy 15 minutes ago
Can you use Zed with your regular Claude subscription?
ajvs 2 hours ago
I've been using Orca for this as it's the most popular on GitHub and seems to have more features. Is there anything notable that this offers over it?
dang 6 hours ago
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)
swingboy 13 minutes ago
Does herdr have a mobile app like Orca?
athrowaway3z 4 hours ago
Having used herdr since its release, the recent 'Emacs is 50' made me decide to go back to it and just vibecode herdr features i use into an emacs package.
It works great so far. I can just ask it to update its layout whenever i think something better is possible. I wont be going back, but the one thing that might change that is a mobile app.
v9v 42 minutes ago
I'd love to give it a spin if you ever publish it.
nullishdomain 4 hours ago
The Herdr website [1] has one of the best demos I have seen, one that I think would blow away those who aren’t nearly as AI-brained as I am. Why are we locked into old, boring UIs when I can just ask the agent for something like cows in a pasture or Windows 98?
dullcrisp 4 hours ago
We're not, plenty of applications support custom themes.
nullishdomain 4 hours ago
I have never used an application where I can type in anything close to "make this look like Windows 98" and it just works.
dullcrisp 4 hours ago
I mean one where you can say to herdr, make that look like Windows 98. Still can’t think of a good example that’s not already from Windows 98 unfortunately.
loveparade 3 hours ago
For all applications that support theming you can ask an agent "make this look like windows 98"
don't quite understand how typing it into a popup instead of an agent makes it revolutionary
nullishdomain 2 hours ago
News to me, I guess. I have never seen anything like these demos. Most themes in software I use change colors or rearrange existing UI elements rather than create kanban boards and floating interactive cows where they did not exist before.
indemnity 5 hours ago
In this vein I’ve started using Tern (https://stencil.so/tern), but it’s closed beta, from the creator of Oh My Pi.
This space seems to be heating up, everyone wanting to build the single pane of glass for agentic work.
evulhotdog 5 hours ago
I got access this week and I am blown away at how much better it makes oh-my-pi, and omp was already great!
technocratius 3 hours ago
I got access around a week ago but found it quite unintuitive and found myself sticking to herdr for now, but was probably a bit quick to judge. What makes tern great for you?
barrenko 4 hours ago
I've got access weeks ago, seems I've completely misunderstood what it does!
alansaber an hour ago
There's still space for innovation and UIUX improvements so why not I say
newdee an hour ago
Wow, that site is gorgeous
withinrafael an hour ago
Anyone using this or similar with self-hosted models/engines (not on local machine)? Didn't immediately see anything about that anywhere in the documentation.
ziofill 7 hours ago
> 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)
devjam 2 hours ago
Telemetry does not include any data from your terminals, or names of files, folders or projects. In fact they even provide an example JSON payload for you to inspect in the settings dialog.
lexoj 3 hours ago
How does it compare to Rex? (I use Rex but haven’t tried herdr so cant compare yet)
tietjens an hour ago
I've been waiting for Rex access! How are you using it, have you installed on different servers?
I have more faith in team behind Rex so not putting the time in for Herdr.
_bobm 4 hours ago
The relevant question: is herdr going to be sunset by herdr-app backed by herdr-core?
To me this is a valid signal.
WinstonSmith84 an hour ago
I was wondering this, too. The desktop appears to be based on herdr-core, and naturally I'd have imagined Herdr Server (terminal) to migrate to herdr-core as well. In fact I'm not even sure why they built herdr-core when they had Herdr Server ..
Anyway, the best comment I could find is that one here where even the main dev doesn't know the direction .. https://github.com/herdrdev/herdr-app/issues/63#issuecomment...
Lack of vision and fragmentation is concerning
ithkuil 2 minutes ago
I was initially excited because I thought I could just try out a new frontend while keeping my 10 existing spaces each with 10 worktrees each with 2 or more tabs untouched.
game_the0ry 7 hours ago
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 7 hours ago
Herdr is not exactly obscure. I would argue your effort to follow ai hasn’t been that effective.
drTobiasFunke 6 hours ago
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.
siva7 6 hours ago
Your comment is so comically dumb.. Herdr is yet another recently vibe coded ai helper in a niche category. You wouldn't miss anything about frontier ai or coding agents if you don't use herdr and/or terminal multiplexers in your workflow.
shepherdjerred 6 hours ago
herdr is moderately well known if you look into agent multiplexers. IMO it is the best one from what I have tried (Paseo and Conductor are competitors in this area)
It's not a harness -- it's really more like a tmux for agents.
cedws 2 hours ago
I've been building something similar except it uses iroh for P2P instead of SSH. Would really like to use this but I don't want to use SSH.
edit: nevermind I see it presents a console rather than wrapping the agent with a native GUI. This won't work well on high latency connections.
scirob 2 hours ago
I also built a similar thing a many. And in my experiments (even though iroh is great) iroh took significantly longer to reconnect vs mosh and ethernal. And actually plain old autossh was the best XP for me to close laptop get on traincopen again on mobile Internet.
So eventually I removed everything other than autossh.
Seeing as how many people are building similar things I'd love to share more. Maybe wanna ad each other respectively to the repo's ?I can share some of my benchmark results
scirob 2 hours ago
To elaborate on my usecase that herdr didn't so at all the the beginning but still does not do well: I have many vm's in different clouds working on different projects with different secrets that I want to keep isolated ( now also at home lan machines which when im travel get aliased to their tail scale address)
So my biggest requirements are around making isolation between environments convenient but safe from supply chain attacks .
I wonder what usecase you were optimizing for
cedws 2 hours ago
For me connect time is not really a concern, it happens once when I open the app. In my project I'm wrapping agents using ACP and presenting an actual GUI, so latency doesn't really have a perceptible impact. Running Claude Code in a console over any kind of remote connection is gonna feel bad.
Rather than for network performance I'm using iroh because I don't want to need a direct network path to the machines running my agents. Yeah I have Tailscale but that's more work to set up and I don't want my app to depend on users have a TS network.
nylonstrung an hour ago
This sounds cool and a great use case for Iroh
tiffanyh 8 hours ago
What’s the planned monetization model for all the terminal multiplexers backed by VC funding like Herdr, Rex, etc?
adamisnotroman 8 hours ago
I think they are all planning to make money on selling cloud or inference
skinfaxi 8 hours ago
If the terminal is just a screen to a remote, they will sell you the remote, completely integrated into the harness.
oefrha 7 hours ago
Being acquired for $10B by $1T companies.
barrenko 4 hours ago
Yes, become too big not to be acquired.
oefrha 7 hours ago
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 7 hours ago
the poor experience on a crappy network connection is an SSH problem unfortunately
oefrha 7 hours ago
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.
nsonha 8 minutes ago
this is a solved problem with mosh
DaSHacka 7 hours ago
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 7 hours ago
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 6 hours ago
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 7 hours ago
try cosyra mobile. Its the best mobile client for herdr. It uses websocket and is has a really smooth ux.
walthamstow 2 hours ago
I've been using a Collie on Android to connect to my herdr server, it's very good
jbellis 8 hours ago
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.
ghempton 6 hours ago
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
mark_l_watson 7 hours ago
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.
mintflow 3 hours ago
Glad to see the desktop app and after did some research seems its like rex and with some once feature and it even have a Win98 easter egg if you can find it:)
Currently I am not switch to it because I just have my own app talk to the herdr daemon via my apps builtin tailscale and it works great