Tether
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“Tether seems like it could be useful to bridge that gap”
“I love that Tether is helping to figure out all the quirks there”
Show 1 more
“You can use the app that is the subject of this thread”
Caveats and dissent
“run by crooks closely associated with SBF”
“From what I understand, Tether requires a companion app running on your iPhone.”
Often compared with
Who recommends it in their own words
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“static goroutine leak analyzer on x/tools/go/analysis”
“And the things I do miss I write programs for [1][2] and give them to people.”
“I built a helper [1] that adds a monitoring layer on top”
Threads where it came up
- Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux 7 mentions
- Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance 1 mention
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026) 1 mention
- Apple is increasing my cortisol levels 1 mention
- Tether: An inter-LLM mailbox MCP tool 1 mention
- Claude Code Remote Control 1 mention
Also written as tether. Data: tether.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 7
“run by crooks closely associated with SBF”
“Isn’t iphonebridge[0] doing the same but without browser extensions?”
“Tether seems like it could be useful to bridge that gap”
“I love that Tether is helping to figure out all the quirks there”
“From what I understand, Tether requires a companion app running on your iPhone.”
That's what I thought at first but then discovered: > universal clipboard is synchronized over internet, it is not done trough cable connection. it uses apple continuity service, what you put into UC is uploaded into apple cloud,.. https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice/issues/1143 That's why I'm a bit confused now. > don't let the "KDE" fool you Being GNOME2-then-MATE user, it really would.
“You can use the app that is the subject of this thread”