Heeler: A native iOS companion app for herdr, an agent-first terminal runtime (752 stars)
What it does
All text below is quoted directly from the project README.
Native iOS agent console for herdr, watch and drive the coding agents on your machines over SSH, with a real libghostty terminal, QR pairing, and push notifications when an agent needs you
Features:
- Console: every Agent on every machine in one status-sorted list (Blocked first), filterable by Host, updated live.
- Attach: the Agent's real terminal rendered by libghostty: native scrollback, momentum touch scrolling that also drives full-screen TUIs, long-press selection, takeover of a stale terminal owner, and quietly collected web links to open later.
- Composer: draft locally with the full iOS keyboard (autocorrect, IME, dictation), then Send once; the tools keyboard adds Agent control keys, Agent Skills, reusable Snippets, and terminal appearance.
- Terminal: open a plain shell in the Agent's directory, with Text and Keys modes and one reused tab per Workspace.
- Attachments: stage a photo or a file up to 64 MiB onto the Host over SFTP and insert its path into the draft.
- QR pairing: scan a Pairing Code to add a machine; keys are generated on device, private keys stay in the Keychain, and the code pins the host key fingerprint.
- Worktrees: start an Agent on a clean checkout of the workspace's repo.
- Jump Host: reach unroutable machines through an SSH jump, with keys verified at both hops.
Install Heeler from the App Store or TestFlight.
Repository
https://github.com/ZingerLittleBee/Heeler
Repository stats
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Stars | 752 |
| Forks | 77 |
| Last release | v0.1.17 (2026-11-03) |
| Languages | Swift 71.6%, HTML 17.6%, JavaScript 4.1% |
| Contributors | 29 |
| AI contributor accounts (Claude / Codex / Cursor / Copilot) | none |
| AI co-authored commits | none |
Main contributor
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | ZingerBee |
| GitHub | @ZingerLittleBee |
| Commits to this repo | 3,225 (top contributor) |
| Bio | Indie developer building apps and dev tools across web, desktop, and mobile. |
| X / Twitter | @zingerbee |
| Followers | 84 |
| Public repos | 52 |
| On GitHub since | 2017 |
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