Prompt 3

I didn’t see news about Panic making a successor to Prompt 2, I just saw it on the App Store one day and decided to give it a shot. Being a Panic app, I had some pretty high expectations for it, above other apps. But this app doesn’t even meet the bare minimum of what I’d expect from any random app, let alone to go above and beyond as expected from Panic (I am a long time customer of Transmit, Coda, and Nova). Subscription fuss aside (thank you for putting in a lifetime purchase option!), this app frequently crashes, has strange bugs (e.g. when connecting to a server with latency of around 200ms, every key press happens twice. Until you make another connection in a new tab and go back, then it’s temporarily fixed), and has a strange design — who thought the tab bar at the top of the Home Screen was shippable??? It’s so ugly! Other design tidbits / nitpicks: - Press the “Info” button (with a weird icon btw) on the Home Screen and you get a full-screen sheet with just 3 options. You could literally play a game of tic-tac-toe in the wasted space. Why is this not just a dropdown menu?? - On launch there is like a 50% chance the search bar will have a black (light mode) or white (dark mode) box outline around it. I don’t know why, but there’s no way to get rid of it apart from closing all tabs. - Go to settings and look at the icons closely. You’ll notice they all have different alignments, different rounded corners, different designs. No consistency whatsoever. Some are just straight up imported from Prompt 2 / Coda mobile. - Speaking of imported things, the PIN code entry is unchanged and is an iOS 7 throwback on every launch (or when your Face ID fails). Oh yeah, and the passcode settings page has a weird padding on the top and the background is different. Just because why not. - If you enable Connection Keeper and click on an entry, you get some usable UI… I guess. The text at the bottom doesn’t even have padding and it looks like it was made in SwiftUI in 10 minutes (maybe less?) - To end it off, the app will sometimes randomly persist a (1) or (2) badge (to indicate active connections), even when they are all closed. The only way to fix it is to make the app crash, which is pretty easy — just connect to a server with a high latency, and eventually it will crash. Sometimes it even crashes on first connection! But hey, at least the badge is cleared. However, it’s not all bad. There are at least two things I like which makes the app a 2-star and not a 1-

In order to add servers it requires a subscription.

I bought Prompt 2 and then they removed it from the App Store forcing everyone to buy it again. Really scummy move.

Fantastic terminal emulator! I use it when I have a thought and am away from my computer.

It's just not a good usage experience. Clip syncing does not work well. Panic Apps worked better with iCloud Sync. Panic Sync is unreliable. Today I updated and ALL my clips and clip groups were literally just wiped away. I would prefer a manual way to backup my clips and clip groups rather than panic sync which destroys data. I've asked for some feature updates for several months. They are not interested in providing users what they need, instead they have this app that is what they want to give. And it simply does not work well compared to other terminal applications. UPDATE: I am increasing my rating from 2 to 3. I was contacted by support who inofrmed me how to retrieve my syned clips that had disappeared. So that was nice to not have lost all those. I still want an improved interface as previously requeted. As the interface improves I will continue to increase my rating.

Completely paid app, doesn't even let you add one server if you don't subscribe (or purchase the “lifetime” license)

I purchased Prompt 2 and can no longer download it. Panic will never get any of my money in the future due to this stunt.

Great tool both for the iPad and iPhone. I would highly recommend to anyone doing system administration tasks. Responsive and thorough support from a stalwart Apple platform developer.

I would like to see: 1. Shortcuts on MacOS - The shortcuts are great on iOS, but missing on MacOS. Maybe the expectation is to use the default shell option to remotely run commands? 2. I cannot click in the middle of a long string of a command and get the cursor there, or select portions of the string to easily replace it. A free competitor's shell can do this. 3. Ability to have a local shell in the list of "Servers" to conect to. 4. Ability to create a "Server" that will run a clip upon connecting. Use case: A Remote MacOS Server that is running Parallels Desktop. Parallels has a linux VM Called "Docker" I could define a system called "Docker" that would SSH to the MacOS target and do prlctl enter "Docker" and it would seems like like I have a dedicated session, but without the need to install SSH keys on the target VM. 5. The ability to export clips for backup or even version control would be nice.

Wasn’t able to get a reply to a couple of support requests in the last two weeks.