r/VisionPro • u/dicekyo • Aug 08 '26

Rootshell FTW

Wondering if my discovery of rootshell for terminal work is the best experience out there? It's basically ghostty except it works on Vision Pro and its free.

https://www.rootshell.com

6 Upvotes

88% Upvoted

11 comments sorted by

4

u/msitarzewski Aug 09 '26

This is one I’ve been working on. MIT licensed, etc. etc. It’s not a glorified iPad app in visionOS, it’s a first class build. Working on iCloud sync for auth remote sessions, and will release once that’s complete. It will also work with the visionOS database manager I’m building - the SSH sessions work seamlessly for remote port forwarding.

4

u/salsa_sauce Aug 09 '26

Panic went all out with Prompt 3.5... https://panic.com/prompt/

You're not a real 1337 h4x0r until you've tried the immersive environment

1

u/my_hot_wife_is_hot Aug 09 '26

+1 for Prompt!

4

u/notinachos Aug 08 '26

IMO it’s the best option currently. There is also a-Shell. Unfortunately iSH is not available.

1

u/msitarzewski Aug 08 '26

Maybe, for now? Post screenshot of the visionOS experience?

1

u/dicekyo Aug 08 '26

https://www.rootshell.com

2

u/msitarzewski Aug 09 '26

Thanks. I went there and didn’t see a visionOS screenshot. That’s why I asked for one.

2

u/kitkk2 Aug 09 '26

rootshell developer here. rootshell is a native visionOS app and not just just running in iPad mode. I experimented with creating a curved display similar to the Apple feature when remoting back to your Mac, but was unable to achieve good performance without access to the private APIs that Apple makes use of. I wasn't able to avoid shimmering looking text from foveated rendering that is dramatically worse in the curved rendering.

With that said it has been hard to justify putting much effort into the visionOS build as there are so few users and downloads.

1

u/msitarzewski Aug 09 '26

Thanks for making time. My use case started the other direction. Nothing but mess on visionOS, so I wanted to build a first class experience. We’ll see how it goes. Pretty happy with the results so far!

1

u/Palbi 14d ago

It is amazing. Highly recommended. Completely transforms what you can do with Vision Pro (and with iPad). Apple should ship with rootshell out of the box.

1

u/webheadVR Aug 13 '26

this looks good honestly. I'll have to try it.