La Terminal Reviews

Need to be able to use ed25519 ssh key.

When typing, there is a lot of lag, so much so that LaTerminal is unusable. I ssh’ed into a machine on my local network, and after logging in, there is nothing I am able to do.

I don't know what makes this particular terminal so incredibly slow, but it makes it unusable if you're planning to sit down and do work. If you code from a terminal you might think that this is a solution to the inability to code on vision pro -- it's not, unfortunately.

Separately, it no longer works for me -- I think the owner may have price gated some of the ssh features. (certainly reasonable -- but since I'm not sure if that's the cause of the change it bares mentioning)

LaTerminal looks pretty but i can't figure out how to highlight text in the terminal and paste it somewhere. This is something I do all-the-time in any normal terminal. It also seems like you have to put the login/password in for every individual host. My passwords rotate monthly, and i dont want to have to update my password on 100+ hosts when there should be one spot to put the password, like an accounts menu or a group menu.

This would be amazing if latency were reduced significantly, I tried using Neovim through it, but it was quite a bit too laggy. It’d also be amazing if scrolling could be made to work with Neovim. Scrolling works in the terminal, but for some reason with Neovim, it just acts like the mouse is clicked and starts highlighting text to yank.

First, I'm happy to update this review once things start working.

I can't get anything to connect using the Vision Pro. I have no problem using LaTerminal successfully with my iPad or iPhone. With the Vision Pro I see ".waiting ... PolicyDenied" for every host I try connecting to (macOS and Linux). I tried enabling additional diagnostics in settings, but I didn't get any more info. Nicely designed app, however.

I **really** want a setup with the Vision Pro where I can use my paired keyboard and a terminal. And I was hoping this would be it...

*** UPDATE 1 *** I was able to get La Terminal working on Vision Pro by going into Settings -> Apps -> La Terminal, then turn OFF "Local Network Access", then turn ON "Local Network Access". I don't know why network access seemed to not be granted when visionOS prompted me to allow when I first started LaTerminal ? Anyway, now that everything is working I can give this a proper test drive.

*** UPDATE 2 *** LaTerminal really makes the Vision Pro a usable work device for me. It is super cool to have a terminal open, a browser open, music playing, while being immersed on top of a cliff with clouds rolling by.

La Terminal is a bit glitchy, so thank the gods for tmux. The "native" session persistence doesn't seem to do anything. Also, the "tmux" option in the menu is no good because it starts a new session when reconnecting instead of attaching to the existing session. Running tmux is REQUIRED because La Terminal does not seem to handle network glitches gracefully. I will literally be typing in my editor and I get a popup about a network disconnect — this seems specific to La Terminal; I don't see these frequent network interruptions with a-Shell (also I can't run the helix editor with a-Shell, but it renders beautifully with La Terminal).

I noticed that the font is blurry compared to other SSH apps for Vision Pro. Despite that, I was unable to open more than two SSH sessions, one in an extra window and another in the main window. Furthermore, clicking on the terminal results in the text on the clipboard being pasted. Those make LaTerminal hard to use. Once those issues are fixed it will be a 5 start app!

It’s a cool app with a lot of thoughtful features, which is why I’m so shocked that there’s no margin whatsoever on the terminal windows, with text right up against the edge, and in fact clipped off entirely on the four rounded corners. I’m sure this will be fixed soon, but until then, it’s incredibly annoying.

It's a Terminal client that works. I feel like most terminal apps are "90% complete" but this one definitely has me feeling like this is a full featured app.

The monitoring is neat, though I wish it had some level of customization like excluding or hiding some mount points that I don't care about.

I am an AI skeptic but I don't deny the fact that it is very good at helping me get over some bash syntax hurdles quickly. I don't use it a ton, but it's thoughtfully added and if you don't care about it, it doesn't get in the way.

I'm super happy with LaTerminal!

The new monitoring capabilities look super fine! Only bug I have noticed is if I:

1. connect to a host
2. minimize keyboard
3. pull up the monitoring charts
4. dismiss charts
5. bring keyboard back up
6. typing doesn't input anything in the terminal

Turns out you can change that default port! Thanks for the feedback. LaTerminal sometimes crashes when I scroll to the appearance section of a connection though. But so far works great for my needs.

Solid terminal implementation, needs a lot of the usual features we expect from terminals, like turning off rendering bright colors as bold fonts, banning the soft keyboard from ever appearing again, or opening a second session with a host.

Don’t let that stop you from using it — it’s still a lot better than suffering through xterm.js in a browser until Vision Pro terminals mature.

Best evr

My needs are light, but I find this client to be a joy to use. Miguel’s sense of humor shines through.

As a linux admin/devops engineer. This is my “killer app” for the AVP. LaTerminal makes it possible for me to work effectively on remote clients without relying on my macbook. Other terminal apps work, but this is the first one I’ve used where I immediately knew that I could confidently get work done. I never leave app reviews, but this one definitely deserved it. Hats off to the team behind this!

LaTerminal pushes the limits of the terminal experience on iOS. Thank you for making such a great app!

Got on an early beta from Miguel, and never turned back! Really great SSH client!

so far im confused and trying to figure it out, I don’t know a single thing about coding lol but i LOVE the live bsckgrounds so cutee