# Hooterm: SSH Client & Terminal — SFTP, SSH Tunnel, Linux Shell

> SFTP, SSH Tunnel, Linux Shell (iPhone/iPad app by Alexander Medchenko.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hooterm-ssh-client-and-terminal/id6804202722 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Alexander Medchenko](https://appshunter.io/developer/6797313895)
- Category: Developer Tools, Productivity
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 31 MB
- Languages: American English, French (France), German (Germany), Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, European Spanish
- Released: 2026-09-17
- Data updated: 2026-11-06

## What is Hooterm?

Hooterm is a native SSH client for iPhone, iPad and Mac.

Connect to your own servers with a password or a private key, keep several live terminal sessions open side by side, browse remote files over SFTP, forward ports, route through jump hosts and run saved snippets. Your servers, keys and snippets stay in one encrypted workspace that follows you across your devices.

TERMINAL
• Sessions stay open while you move between servers; switch with a tap or a two-finger swipe.
• A row of the keys a phone keyboard lacks — esc, tab, ctrl, alt, arrows, F-keys and more. Reorder it to fit how you work.
• A panel in place of the keyboard for keys, snippets, command history and themes.
• Paste the saved password of the server with one tap when sudo asks for it.
• Nine themes that colour the whole session, eleven typefaces, pinch to resize. The terminal goes light and dark with the system.
• Find in the output.

SERVERS
• Groups with environment labels, so production never looks like staging.
• Import from ~/.ssh/config and from a Termius export.
• Jump hosts, local, remote and dynamic port forwarding.

FILES
• An SFTP browser for every open session: upload, download, rename, copy, move and delete.

SECURITY
• SSH credentials are kept in an encrypted vault protected by a key in the device Keychain.
• A changed server key is never accepted silently: you see the old and the new fingerprint and decide.
• Face ID or Touch ID can lock the app, and its contents are hidden in the app switcher.
• Encrypted sync keeps readable vault contents off Hooterm servers.

Hooterm Free includes the complete personal SSH toolkit. Hooterm Team adds shared encrypted workspaces, invitations, roles and team recovery for up to five members.


Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Hooterm Team | $6.99 | per month |
| Hooterm Team | $69.99 | per year |


## Is Hooterm safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Hooterm.

## Is Hooterm legit?

Hooterm: SSH Client & Terminal has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Hooterm is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.1.2 — 2026-11-05

Hooterm 1.1.2 fixes what you found in 1.1.1.

• A file that is not text or too large says so plainly and offers Download, instead of an empty editor.
• Renaming a folder in Files, deleting a snippet on Mac and revoking a device take you back to the list.
• Devices: the vault password and the recovery code are shown apart, under Vault access, and are not counted as devices.
• The first connection to a server says it is new to this device.
• A server that accepts only keys says so, instead of "wrong password".
• A server added on another device shows the key it signs in with.
• Mac: Session › Reconnect is off while the session is live.
• Mac: a server's Group menu ticks its group and follows the sidebar's order; Through host ticks the chosen server.
• Editing, moving or deleting a server from its menu opens at once.

### 1.1.1 — 2026-11-04

Hooterm 1.1.1 fixes what you found in 1.1.

• Mac: connecting from the server table no longer closes the app.
• A file that is not text says why it cannot be edited, instead of closing the app on Mac, and it can never be saved over.
• Mac: the file editor shows Save to server and its messages without scrolling.
• Reconnect on a working session no longer signs in a second time.
• Teams: members can leave a team, a removed member's access ends with a new team key, and a shared secret shows as shared on every device.
• Snippets added from the snippets screen sync to your other devices.
• A server added on another device signs in with the key that came with it.
• Settings say when a subscription has ended.
• More private key types are recognized, and other fixes.

### 1.1.0 — 2026-10-13

Hooterm 1.1 is redesigned on iPhone, iPad and Mac.

• A new terminal on iPhone: open sessions under the output, a row of keys you can reorder, and a panel of keys, snippets, history and themes in place of the keyboard.
• Paste the server's saved password with one tap when sudo asks for it.
• Themes now colour the whole session, with eleven typefaces and pinch to resize. The terminal follows the system's light and dark appearance.
• Find in the output.
• Servers are grouped into cards with environment labels; on Mac and iPad the table opens with the most recent connections first.
• A dropped session says so and offers to reconnect. If a server's key changes while reconnecting, you see both fingerprints before anything connects.
• More private keys are recognized, and keys can be added with an account signed in.
• New marks for your servers, and many fixes.

### 1.0.2 — 2026-09-18

The interface is aligned to one grid on iPhone, iPad and Mac, Liquid Glass is back to the controls it belongs to, and the light theme no longer washes out.

### 1.0 — 2026-09-17

No release notes.

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## More apps by Alexander Medchenko

- [Remote for Hyper-V](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/remote-for-hyper-v/id6797313669)

All apps by Alexander Medchenko: https://appshunter.io/developer/6797313895

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