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Tons of thoughtful features that make managing servers from a phone easier. It’s an SSH terminal app, it puts your servers into the Files app, it even integrates with Digital Ocean for creating/removing droplets. There are lots of apps that try to do this stuff, but Shellfish is the easy recommendation. It’s been my go-to for years.

I just set up Shellfish on my iPad and I hardly had to anything to get to the same place I was on my iPhone. I just input my home server account’s password, installed the iPad’s public key in two taps, and that was it. Shellfish already had my home server listed, and all my terminal sessions were as I left them on my phone. At first, the price of the lifetime pro unlock felt steep, but I’ve been feeling better and better about purchasing it as I’ve used Shellfish.

I have yet to see any other shell app that comes close.

Overall I’m pretty happy with this SSH client. I love SFTP integration and overall setup and use is very good. Most importantly - this app has seen regular, meaningful updates and has an incredibly kind, supportive engineer at the helm. Love the new grouping function for large/long lists of hosts. Love the native (and well designed) support for Bastion hosts. Lifetime unlock seems steep until you compare it to other apps on the iOS platform. Definitely happy with this purchase - it’s been worth every penny. If I had one wish it would be that SFTP could also download files from the remote, instead of just uploading, but hey, that’s a tiny complaint about a truly wonderful, useful app.

Great app, and works great on iPad and Mac too. I use it to mount remote servers in Files/Finder.

While I like using terminal on my MacBook to do heavier tasks, this is a perfect app for quick and lighter tasks on my iPad or iPhone. Easy to set up, easy to use, and just works!

I’ve tried all of the SSH terminals on the iPad and they all lack some feature or other. ShellFish has a shell script you can run on your machine to open files immediately on your iPad. You just type “quicklook file.pdf” into your terminal and you can view the pdf in IOS pdf viewer, and even edit it in-place with apple pencil. This has helped me so much with writing research papers and slideshows in markup directly on my server. Amazing application.

I bought a lifetime license and I have no regrets. I had a question once and the dev responded rrally fast. The app is fully of quality of life features. It's a pleasure to use for a quick checkup on remotes servers or send a file with integration of sshfs into files. The only thing bugging me when using this I the size of my screen, but the dev can't help me with that. It's by far the best terminal I know and well worth the money to acknowledge the hard work put into it.

Good bye Prompt, this is the new king of SSH on iOS/Mac I cannot say enough about this app, I share it with everyone. It just works, and works well. Great job devs!

I don’t normally write reviews, but ShellFish is soo good that I need to tell others about it. I’ve used other terminal/ssh apps, and nothing compares to the usability of this app. The built-in tmux handling is nice as if I am on a flaky internet connection then I can connect back to the same session and not have to worry about my commands terminating. The port forwarding is great as I’ve been able to use it to connect to services running on a server only available to localhost and use port forwarding to access it. The files app integration is wonderful because I can browse my server files through files app and transfer files that way. Anders is also an indie dev so I feel even better paying the full price for lifetime access (which is also waaay lower than some other apps).