We're delighted to announce that exe.dev has an iOS app now in the App Store.
There's a lot to write about how we built it, but today let's talk about the why.
After all, the exe.dev dashboard and Shelley already work on mobile browsers.
They say the best camera is the one you have with you. The best terminal is the one you have with you too. We couldn't build the following features without building an app, so an app it is:
Notifications. Agentic conversations are high-latency, and it's useful to
be notified when it's your turn. Nothing on iOS comes close to the native
notifications experience. Of course, we built this with an exe integration:
other software you build on your VM can use the same notify.int.exe.xyz
integration to ping your phone.
Share sheet. Many prompts begin with a screenshot. Take one, click share, and click on exe.dev to start an agentic conversation. Whether it's a UI element that's out of alignment or a Slack message you received, the share sheet speeds up "time to agent is working on it."
Voice. We built a voice mode that can harness the power of having real computing resources available to you.
SSH. There are several excellent SSH clients already available for SSH, but the process of creating a key and registering it with exe.dev is cumbersome. We do not yet support mosh (it's on the roadmap!) which makes roaming prone to dropping connections. Having a terminal client in our app side-steps that. We have happy users that have persistent Claude Code sessions in their terminals. Paste works, by the way.
Multiplexing Shelley. One of our taglines is "a VM for every idea." Instead of walking through each VM in turn to find unfinished business, the iOS app provides a centralized place.
I want to thank our TestFlight users for providing valuable feedback while suffering through many a crash!
The app is in the App Store. Give it a whirl. Send us feedback via Discord or support@exe.dev.