Spring. Exploring.
Shio
The cross-platform terminal for the agent era.
Your machines, in your pocket.
The problem
SSH clients on the phone are either ten years old or a subscription with somebody's cloud in the middle. Reaching your own machines should not need either.
The approach
A native SSH client for iPhone, iPad and Mac that finds your machines through Tailscale, keeps sessions alive across the day, and treats agents running on those machines as first-class.
What we learned
Nobody just chats with a local model; they want to reach the machine it runs on. The Mac reconnect state machine and trusting a new host key were harder than the terminal.
Grew from PastureAn iOS app for Ollama that became Shio.
Next
A device pass, an external TestFlight, and then a decision on whether it is the answer.
shio.sh- Status
- Exploring; a device pass and a TestFlight away
- Runs on
- iPhone, iPad and Mac
- Since
- 2026
- Built with
- Swift and SwiftUI; Tailscale for reach; a native terminal core
- Grew from
- Pasture, once it was clear that reaching the machine mattered more than chatting with the model on it
- Also
- GitHub
The print
Mont-Saint-Michel
Shio can mean tide in Japanese. The highest tides still cut this island off.
Clarkson Stanfield and Alfred Freebairn, 1836. Two of three inks: federal blue, pink. The yellow waits until it ships. Source. Public domain.
