Only flagships with qualifies: true clear the gate this month: Surge 5 (US) and Termius (UK). No TR flagship qualified — the two TR incumbents with review flow (GitHub TR, Virtual Number) sit below the complaint gate, and the rest captured zero reviews.
Surge 5 (US) — 85 recent 1–2★ (42% of 200) · Top Grossing #10
- Users hurting on _(confidence: high)_: retroactive paywalling and license revocation (21 — "Some basic features now require a subscription update to continue using them; this is blatant robbery."); missing modern protocols vless/Reality, VMess AEAD, SS2022 (14 — "2026年了还不打算支持vless协议吗", it's 2026 — still no vless?); paid-upgrade crashes and connect bugs (9 — "Tuic 付费升级订阅后崩溃", crashes after paying for the Tuic upgrade).
- Asking for and NOT getting _(confidence: high)_: current protocol support — vless-xtls, shadowsocks 2022, Naive, OpenVPN, anytls (5 requests). Requests date back to 2022 and remain unshipped.
- Your opening _(confidence: high)_: ship an iOS proxy/network-debug client with day-one vless+Reality and SS2022 support at a one-off price — Surge's leader has stalled (steady growPotential 0.51, upShare 0.32, +11 ratings/mo) while its Chinese-speaking US-storefront power users openly recommend each other alternatives in its own reviews.
cross-checked: kept 5, cut 3 — Surge qualifies (True); header stats (85 neg / 42% / #10) and trend (steady, gp 0.51) verified; both quotes present in review bodies. Cut the paste-a-node-URL import, monthly/cheaper-plan, and Hysteria2 speed-cap requests — each a single-review cluster below the 2-review floor.
Termius - Modern SSH Client (UK) — 51 recent 1–2★ (26% of 200) · Top Grossing #2
- Users hurting on _(confidence: high)_: subscription pricing (16 — "Imagine expecting people to pay £12 a month for an ssh client!"); update breakage wiping hosts and config (13); forced account signup (7 — "Not creating an account just for an SSH app"); undisableable AI bar (4 — med).
- Asking for and NOT getting _(confidence: high)_: a one-off payment / affordable personal tier (6 explicit requests, asked continuously since 2020); an AI off-switch (2 — med).
- Your opening _(confidence: high)_: an account-optional, one-time-purchase SSH client with zero AI and a tmux/CLI-agent-friendly terminal peels off the priced-out homelab/personal segment — Termius is surging in the UK (gp 0.65), so the play is flanking its pricing model, not out-featuring a leader users otherwise love.
cross-checked: kept 7, cut 3 — Termius UK qualifies (True); header stats (51 neg / 26% / #2) and trend (surging, gp 0.65) verified; both quotes present in review bodies. Cut the keyboard-hide/tmux-scrollback, affordable-serial-terminal, and custom-fonts requests — each a single-review cluster below the 2-review floor.