Shell SSH 1.3.0

Shell SSH is a focused SSH client for iPhone, iPhone Duo, iPad and Mac. It opens a real interactive terminal to the servers you administer — not a box that runs one command at a time.

COPY WHAT YOU NEED, WHERE YOU NEED IT
• Select Text: copy output to your device even while tmux, vim or htop has the mouse. Drag to select, two fingers to scroll, then Copy
• Let a server copy to your clipboard: a yank in tmux or vim lands on your device, for the hosts you allow. Every copy is shown, and a server can never read your clipboard
• Copy the whole scrollback in one go, and paste from the toolbar or with Command-V

A KEYBOARD THAT WORKS LIKE A TERMINAL
• With a hardware keyboard, Ctrl and Option shortcuts reach the shell — Ctrl-C, Ctrl-R, Option-B — on a Mac too
• Shift+Enter starts a new line in chat-style command-line tools instead of sending
• On screen, a key row adds Esc, Ctrl, Tab, arrows and common symbols — the keys iOS doesn't give you

CONNECT
• Save hosts with a name, address, port, username and notes
• Authenticate with an SSH key or a password
• Search across names, addresses, usernames and notes
• Servers that only offer keyboard-interactive login, as some two-factor setups do, aren't supported yet
• Open several sessions as tabs, and switch without disconnecting
• On iPad and an open iPhone Duo, run two terminals side by side
• Your tabs and your split come back the way you left them

SESSIONS THAT SURVIVE A LOCKED SCREEN
• iOS suspends apps, which drops SSH connections when your device locks
• Shell SSH can run your shell inside tmux, so it keeps running on the server and picks up exactly where you left off
• It asks once, per host or as a default, and closing a tab closes its tmux session too

A REAL TERMINAL
• xterm-256color emulation with full 256-colour support and an alternate screen, so full-screen programs behave as on a desktop
• Themes: Shell, Solarized Dark and Light, Dracula, Nord, Gruvbox, One Dark and Monokai
• Adjustable font size, cursor style and scrollback
• Resizes correctly on rotation, in Split View and in Stage Manager

SNIPPETS
• Keep the commands you run often and insert or run them in a tap
• Placeholders: write {{service}} once and be asked for it when you use it
• Insert leaves the command at the prompt so you can read it before you send it
• 100 common commands included, from systemctl and journalctl to docker and git

SSH KEYS
• Generate Ed25519 keys on device
• Import OpenSSH keys, including passphrase-protected ones
• Copy a public key out for authorized_keys
• Fingerprints in the same SHA-256 form as ssh-keygen

SECURITY FIRST
• Server identity is verified on first connection, with a clear, blocking warning if a host key ever changes
• Passwords and private keys live in the iOS Keychain. A private key leaves your device only if you export it
• Optionally require Face ID or Touch ID before a saved credential is used
• When a login is refused, Shell SSH tells you what the server would have accepted
• Warns before pasting multiple lines, which could run several commands at once
• Review and remove trusted server fingerprints whenever you want

IPHONE, IPHONE DUO AND IPAD
• On iPhone Duo, closed it's the iPhone app; open it for the iPad layout, with your hosts beside the terminal, split view and Focus mode. It switches as you fold and unfold
• On iPad, your hosts sit alongside the terminal, and Focus mode gives one session the whole screen (Command-Shift-F with a keyboard)
• Light and dark appearance, following the system or set explicitly

Shell SSH keeps its key row deliberately small. For a fuller terminal keyboard in every app, Shell Keyboard is a separate companion app.

License: Commercial