Shell SSH

• Save hosts with a name, address, port, username and notes

• Authenticate with an SSH key or a password

• Servers that only offer keyboard-interactive login, as some two-factor setups do, aren't supported yet

• Search across names, addresses, usernames and notes

• Open several sessions at once as tabs, and switch without disconnecting

• On iPad, run two terminals side by side and drag the divider where you want it

• Your tabs and your split come back the way you left them when you reopen the app

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 the session keeps running on the server and picks up exactly where you left off

• It asks the first time, and remembers your answer — per host, or as a default for all of them

• Close a tab and its tmux session is closed too, so nothing is left running behind your back

A REAL TERMINAL

• xterm-256color emulation with full 256-colour support

• Alternate screen buffer, so full-screen programs behave the way they do on a desktop

• A key row above the keyboard for Esc, Ctrl, Tab, arrows and common symbols — the keys iOS doesn't give you

• Copy a selection or the whole scrollback, and paste, from the toolbar or with Command-C and Command-V

• Pick a theme: Shell, Solarized Dark and Light, Dracula, Nord, Gruvbox, One Dark or 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

• Fill-in-the-blank placeholders: write {{service}} once and be asked for it when you use it, with optional and prefilled values too

• Insert leaves the command at the prompt so you can read it before you send it

• 100 common commands included as examples, from systemctl and journalctl to docker and git

• Searchable, reorderable, and yours to edit

SSH KEYS

• Generate Ed25519 keys on device

• Import existing OpenSSH keys, including passphrase-protected ones

• Copy a public key out to paste into authorized_keys

• Fingerprints shown in the same SHA-256 form as ssh-keygen

SECURITY FIRST

• Server identity is verified on first connection, and you get a clear, blocking warning if a server's host key ever changes

• Passwords and private keys are stored in the iOS Keychain, never in plain files. A private key leaves your device only if you export it

• Optionally require Face ID or Touch ID before a saved credential can be used

• When a login is refused, Shell SSH asks the server what it would have accepted, and tells you — so a server that doesn't take passwords says so instead of looking like a typo

• Warns before pasting multiple lines, which could otherwise run several commands at once

• Review and remove trusted server fingerprints whenever you want

IPHONE AND IPAD

• On iPad, your hosts sit alongside the terminal, and the list collapses when you want the full window

• Focus mode on iPad gives one session the whole screen, with tabs, host list and toolbar out of the way until you tap for them. With a keyboard, Command-Shift-F goes in and out

• On iPad, the terminal's controls live in the tab strip, so the terminal gets the room a title bar used to take

• Light and dark appearance, following the system or set explicitly

Shell SSH keeps its built-in key row deliberately small — just the keys a terminal needs. If you want a fuller terminal keyboard available in every app, Shell Keyboard is a separate companion app.