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vSSH app for iPhone and iPad


4.6 ( 4016 ratings )
Business Utilities
Developer: Velestar Private Enterprise
3.99 USD
Current version: 1.11.1, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 15 Jun 2012
App size: 5.7 Mb

Advanced customizable SSH and Telnet client with extended keyboard, touch screen gestures, iCloud synchronization and fast terminal rendering.

Key features:
- Fastest terminal rendering in the AppStore
- SSH and Telnet protocols
- Username/password and private Keys authentication
- Arrows and Scrolling using Touch screen
- Multi-sessions
- Background work (up to 3 minutes for iOS 7, up to 10 minutes for iOS 5/6, alert on timeout)
- iCloud/Dropbox connections, macros and keys sharing with other vSSH apps (for iPhone, iPad and OS X)
- Key forwarding
- Port forwarding (support connection without shell: -N mode)
- iOS and iCloud keychain support (private keys and passwords)
- 1Password integration
- East Asian input support
- Search
- Highlight links and phones
- Macros with variables and key modifiers support
- Select and Copy/Paste text
- Extended customizable keyboard (including F1-24, PF1-4, Ins, Del, PgUp, PgDown, Home, End, arrow and modifier keys)
- Customize touch screen gestures
- Customize font size and colors
- Pseudographics support
- Wide unicode characters (e.g. Korean) are supported
- Keep alive settings
- Auto scroll settings
- Password/Touch ID app protection

Additional features:
- Export connection as file or URL
- Auto-connect on startup
- Auto-run command after connect
- Switch between sessions using hot keys
- Remember previously entered passphrases
- Auto/fixed terminal size settings
- Split keyboard support
- Reset your private data at any time
- Logging (view, delete and print saved logs)

Pros and cons of vSSH app for iPhone and iPad

vSSH app good for

Elegance, speed, reliability. This app hits it on the mark with every feature. I am excited to embellish such an app because it has made my linode work a breeze and I was nervous that Id need a laptop. This suffices in every way I can expect an app to and more. I liked it so much that I paid for it twice so I could use it on my wifes iPad. Keep it real devs, its much appreciated.
Had been needing tunnel capability for a while on iPhone and all my searches came up empty. Somehow missed this app. Works great!!
Simple and easy to use. Straight to the point. No issues logging in to me remote hosts.
Has all the features youd want from an ssh app. Supports public key login, seamless. Love it.
This app is the best SSH-App 4ever! Thanks to the Developers for the App.
Top client... All needed and some more features in it and its fine to work with it. 5 points for Gryffindor ;)

Some bad moments

Freezes when starts the app. Shows loading at bookmark and keeps frozen forever.
There are missing Important keys(cursors, home, end). Moreover, I couldnt figure out how to save connection configurations!
Love the app. Just wanted to ask for a couple things, possibly just put into the pay version. Great update! Everything i asked for! One preference, maybe if the autohide extra keyboard is turned off the bottom showing line is not covered by it. Cant see what Im going left and right with unless I put the arrows in the bottom row. When pressing the more button it would be nice if an extra vertical bar popped up to do the arrows. I constantly over shoot pressing up and down. And sometimes press up trying to go left to adjust a command, which just changes dialog on line to previous. Also with the occasional lag buttons dont appear on the screen which is to be expected, but is fine for normal keys because of the enlarged key shown after pressing. If the extra buttons could try to mirror this functionality locally so you could get confirmation that you are probably on track. Lastly i didnt see a meta key. I know escape can be pressed and then press the meta but im not sure if it worked. Though it might. But again im not sure when i pressed it because only the control goes blue, since that means hold. Also a back slash would be nice in the more bar, though not necessary. Oh and if you could implement apples scroll to hide keyboard thatd be cool. Only when swiping up away from current input, like in imessage.
This is a great working app, it had some issues at first, but they were fixed.
This app is mostly great. Love the fact that I dont have to transport my SSH key over an insecure channel. The keyboard makes sense. Simple and intuitive history lookup, cursor positioning, buffer scrolling. Glad I paid for the app. One feature is missing: no ability to keep SSH key unlocked in memory for a period of time. I connect multiple servers at once and it is a paint to have to type in the passphrase every time, yet I do not want to just store the passphrase in the app. Otherwise, great app. Keep up the good work!
Like this app a lot. I tested 5 or 6 other SSH apps in the store looking for one that would satisfy this simple use case: I have a router at home that I want to connect to securely (public key auth -- no passwords!!) and fire off commands to other machines on the network from there e.g. send WOL packets, run scripts etc. None of the other apps worked right. Either they didnt support running commands, didnt support public keys, or were buggy or near impossible to use. vSSH so far has been stable, and getting it to connect to my router and fire off commands in one step was fairly easy to set up! I hope a future version supports an option to "auto-close" the session window upon a disconnect. And "mosh" protocol support would be a very nice addition, that would make it 5-stars! Hope the devs continue to improve this app!