{"slug": "moshi", "name": "Moshi", "category": "ai", "category_name": "AI models and assistants", "description": "", "recommenders": 4, "commenters": 9, "warners": 0, "score": 5.04, "rising": 2.67, "first": "2026-01-23", "latest": "2026-09-20", "why": "I do find the experience much better than Terminus.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 4, "neutral": 4, "compare": 1, "warn": 0}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 2, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "I do find the experience much better than Terminus.", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": null, "github_repo": "github.com/kyutai-labs/moshi", "official_url": "https://github.com/kyutai-labs/moshi", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Moshi"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 796411264, "item_id": 49775704, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49775704", "by": "tyleo", "date": "2026-09-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I do find the experience much better than Terminus.", "excerpt": "I don't like recurring fees so I paid the Lifetime price. I DO NOT find it worth it but I LOVE Moshi. However, given that its lifetime, it's hard to say if it will one day be worth it. If my usage of AI on my phone picks up it could easily be worth it. I do find the experience much better than Terminus. What I'd recommend is paying once for a month and then deciding if the year or lifetime is worth it for you :)", "context": "paid the Lifetime price", "use_case": "SSH/Mosh terminal on phone for AI", "switched_from": "Terminus", "story": "Moshi \u2013 SSH and Mosh Terminal for Claude Code and AI Agents"}, {"id": 795891683, "item_id": 49743230, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49743230", "by": "rmazzolini", "date": "2026-09-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "https://getmoshi.app/ is also pretty good (herdr integration is paywalled)", "excerpt": "I use tailscale + https://herdr.dev/ with ssh to connect my laptop/phone. For my phone I have tailscale + https://termrover.sh/, but https://getmoshi.app/ is also pretty good (herdr integration is paywalled).", "context": "", "use_case": "phone SSH terminal", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Share your AI Setup, Learn from others"}, {"id": 787266368, "item_id": 49204148, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49204148", "by": "threecheese", "date": "2026-08-06", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "but it works well and has live Claude/Codex/etc notifications", "excerpt": "Moshi has an integration with Herdr; you can connect to your herdr sessions over mosh, your touches register as mouse clicks in the UI (which is minimally rendered above the shell), and there\u2019s a shortcut bar which can issue herdr-keymapped commands. It\u2019s not open source, and costs a few bucks, but it works well and has live Claude/Codex/etc notifications if you are willing to install a hook daemon on your hosts with", "context": "", "use_case": "Mobile access to herdr sessions", "switched_from": "", "story": "Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open"}, {"id": 781345173, "item_id": 48834073, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48834073", "by": "InvidFlower", "date": "2026-07-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Moshi is basically a terminal for iOS but geared toward doing agentic stuff.", "excerpt": "I did try Herdr but found too many things I expected it to have and just didn't. Right now I've been switching between two different approaches for combined local and remote work. There's the more traditional tmux/zellij way. I have a tailscale and mosh and a script where I can say something like \"cw api do-this-feature\" and it'll go into the folder of my api, create a worktree, and fire up claude code to use it (and", "context": "", "use_case": "iOS terminal for agent work", "switched_from": "", "story": "Herdr: One terminal to rule them all"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [{"by": "tyleo", "context": "paid the Lifetime price", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49775704", "date": "2026-09-20"}], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["ssh/mosh terminal on phone for ai", "phone ssh terminal", "mobile access to herdr sessions", "ios terminal for agent work", "speech to speech"], "compared": [{"slug": "terminus", "name": "Terminus", "co": 2, "switched_from": 1, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "tailscale", "name": "Tailscale", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "personaplex", "name": "PersonaPlex", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "herdr", "name": "herdr", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47224295", "title": "Show HN: I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49646100", "title": "Moshi \u2013 SSH and Mosh Terminal for Claude Code and AI Agents", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49740105", "title": "Show HN: Share your AI Setup, Learn from others", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201003", "title": "Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48834405", "title": "GPT\u2011Live", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48756578", "title": "Herdr: One terminal to rule them all", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {"neutral": 2, "compare": 1}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {"recommend": 1, "neutral": 1}, "2026-08": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-09": {"recommend": 2}, "2026-10": {}}, "quotes": [{"id": 796411264, "item_id": 49775704, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49775704", "by": "tyleo", "date": "2026-09-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I do find the experience much better than Terminus.", "excerpt": "I don't like recurring fees so I paid the Lifetime price. I DO NOT find it worth it but I LOVE Moshi. However, given that its lifetime, it's hard to say if it will one day be worth it. If my usage of AI on my phone picks up it could easily be worth it. I do find the experience much better than Terminus. What I'd recommend is paying once for a month and then deciding if the year or lifetime is worth it for you :)", "context": "paid the Lifetime price", "use_case": "SSH/Mosh terminal on phone for AI", "switched_from": "Terminus", "story": "Moshi \u2013 SSH and Mosh Terminal for Claude Code and AI Agents"}, {"id": 795891683, "item_id": 49743230, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49743230", "by": "rmazzolini", "date": "2026-09-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "https://getmoshi.app/ is also pretty good (herdr integration is paywalled)", "excerpt": "I use tailscale + https://herdr.dev/ with ssh to connect my laptop/phone. For my phone I have tailscale + https://termrover.sh/, but https://getmoshi.app/ is also pretty good (herdr integration is paywalled).", "context": "", "use_case": "phone SSH terminal", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Share your AI Setup, Learn from others"}, {"id": 787266368, "item_id": 49204148, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49204148", "by": "threecheese", "date": "2026-08-06", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "but it works well and has live Claude/Codex/etc notifications", "excerpt": "Moshi has an integration with Herdr; you can connect to your herdr sessions over mosh, your touches register as mouse clicks in the UI (which is minimally rendered above the shell), and there\u2019s a shortcut bar which can issue herdr-keymapped commands. It\u2019s not open source, and costs a few bucks, but it works well and has live Claude/Codex/etc notifications if you are willing to install a hook daemon on your hosts with", "context": "", "use_case": "Mobile access to herdr sessions", "switched_from": "", "story": "Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open"}, {"id": 781361792, "item_id": 48835112, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48835112", "by": "rryan", "date": "2026-07-08", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "https://kyutai.org/blog/2024-07-03-meet-moshi/", "excerpt": "ehh, no? definitely not. https://kyutai.org/blog/2024-07-03-meet-moshi/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "GPT\u2011Live"}, {"id": 781345173, "item_id": 48834073, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48834073", "by": "InvidFlower", "date": "2026-07-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Moshi is basically a terminal for iOS but geared toward doing agentic stuff.", "excerpt": "I did try Herdr but found too many things I expected it to have and just didn't. Right now I've been switching between two different approaches for combined local and remote work. There's the more traditional tmux/zellij way. I have a tailscale and mosh and a script where I can say something like \"cw api do-this-feature\" and it'll go into the folder of my api, create a worktree, and fire up claude code to use it (and", "context": "", "use_case": "iOS terminal for agent work", "switched_from": "", "story": "Herdr: One terminal to rule them all"}, {"id": 755718432, "item_id": 47232402, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47232402", "by": "totetsu", "date": "2026-03-03", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Then maybe it\u2019s similar to Moshi", "excerpt": "Thanks. Then maybe it\u2019s similar to Moshi https://github.com/kyutai-labs/moshi?tab=readme-ov-file", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch"}, {"id": 755610688, "item_id": 47225668, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47225668", "by": "woodson", "date": "2026-03-02", "stance": "compare", "quote": "Since Personaplex is just a finetuned Moshi model", "excerpt": "You mean Moshi (https://github.com/kyutai-labs/moshi)? Since Personaplex is just a finetuned Moshi model.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch"}, {"id": 755550225, "item_id": 47221889, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47221889", "by": "navanchauhan", "date": "2026-03-02", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "based on Moshi", "excerpt": "Not affiliated with Sesame, but this is what the realtime models are trying to solve. If you look at NVIDIA\u2019s PersonaPlex release [0], it uses a duplex architecture. It\u2019s based on Moshi [1], which aims to address this problem by allowing the model to listen and generate audio at the same time. [0] https://github.com/NVIDIA/personaplex [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.00037", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)"}, {"id": 747864690, "item_id": 46741543, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46741543", "by": "doonielk", "date": "2026-01-23", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "kyutai Moshi, maybe old now but has a MLX implementation of their speech to speech model", "excerpt": "I did a MLX \"streaming ASR + LLM + streaming TTS\" pipeline in early 2024. I haven't worked on it since then so it's dated. There are now better versions of all the models I used. I was able to conversational latency with the ability to interrupt the pipeline on a Mac, using a variety of tricks. It's MLX, so only relevant if you have a Mac. https://github.com/andrewgph/local_voice For MLX speech to speech, I've seen: ", "context": "", "use_case": "speech to speech", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What's the current best local/open speech-to-speech setup?"}]}