SSH Client - Secure ShellFish

SSH Client - Secure ShellFish

By Anders Borum

  • Category: Developer Tools
  • Release Date: 2019-06-28
  • Current Version: 2025.38
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 104.67 MB
  • Developer: Anders Borum
  • Compatibility: Android, iOS 17.4
Score: 4.82684
4.82684
From 1,155 Ratings

Description

Lightning fast SSH terminal with remote file access. No other app fuses your SSH servers and iOS devices as well as Secure ShellFish. Tap Get and see for yourself. Terminal supports standard text editing gestures for selection, scrolling and copy/paste as well as custom gestures to send arrow keys and tabulator making shell entry and full screen editing with vim or emacs delightful. Bar above the keyboard makes it easy to type special keys and insert snippets. Select and drag filenames out of the terminal as actual files and drag files from other apps into the terminal to upload. Use built-in tmux support to persist terminal sessions if you lose Internet access, pick existing sessions with thumbnails and Handoff sessions between devices. Server file system is available in the Files app and recently accessed files and directories are cached to make them available when offline. Use apps like Textastic and iA Writer for a native editing experience working on your remote server files. Upload files or entire directories from the share sheet with minimal friction as the last destination directory for each kind of file is remembered or automate file transfers in the Shortcuts app. Connect to your Mac, Synology NAS and any other SSH server or create new Digital Ocean droplets right from the app. Secure ShellFish is useful as a free app and paying pro users can disable ads in the terminal, upload through the Files app and configure unlimited number of servers.

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Reviews

  • Great app for using SSH from multiple devices.

    4
    By rhej
    Works great on iOS/iPad OS. Love the fact that it also works on Apple Silicon Macs because I can now sync my SSH connections between my devices. Don’t love the requirement to right-click an entry on Mac to get a menu to open a connection. Seems like opening a connection should be the default behavior of clicking on an entry like it is on iOS/iPadOS.
  • My.Business.Clients.Billing.Community.unix.chime.unibank.com

    5
    By alfa1imega
    Billing Account Chime.Com
  • Very useful utility with no ongoing cost

    4
    By bonedaddy4538
    Works very well and I love the sftp feature. Replaced termius with this app and it’s been much better not paying monthly for something I barely use. My one nitpick with this app is the multiple windows I wish it was one window with tabs for connected servers and the homepage where servers are listed. SSH key auth is great and makes for better security.
  • turns the ipad into a productivity machine

    5
    By escapewindow
    I use this app all the time, to ssh to my machines. Even though I'd prefer if Apple ported XCode and the command line to iPadOS, this is the next best thing.
  • Best ssh terminal app ever.

    5
    By mrelcee
    I have been using Secure Shellfish since shortly after it was released. It Just keeps getting better. The terminal app part is only part of it. Ssh key management, generation - integration with tmux on remote systems.. syncing of your address book between systems…. The sftp integration is very well done for moving config files and whatever else between local and remote.. I was using iOS/iPadOS devices for accessing unix systems early on - and have tested out/tried most. In my opinion, it is the king of both apple portable devices and MacOS desktop. I wish it was available for linux desktops and the occasional windows machine I use.
  • This Is wonderful

    5
    By Fogdor
    Seriously, I was a loyal blink user but this is so much cooler and overflowing with features you didn’t know you were missing!
  • Best on the AppStore

    5
    By Steven0351
    Better than Prompt for a fraction of the price
  • Must have for nerds like me

    5
    By cgervais
    Waiting too long to buy this great app! iPadOS 26 makes using my iPad Pro for development tasks much easier and with that it’s time to have a proper terminal emulator on my system. The level of integration and syncing across my devices is killer - great work!
  • Simply perfect

    5
    By tagliasteel
    Best SSH client ever, from the organizing your servers, to syncing the keys, to dragging files to the terminal window, to the integration with tmux, and so many other features. I tried most other options, but I keep coming back to ShellFish.
  • Great networking client!!!

    5
    By jawalsh
    Does all the things! Rock solid. Allows me to ssh into linux machines and do some serious development work that I unfortunately cannot (yet?) do directly on my iPad.

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