SSH Client User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience94.2% of reviews
Neutral1.9% of reviews
Negative experience3.9% of reviews

~ Based on 590 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is SSH Client Safe?

SSH Client - Secure ShellFish appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for SSH Client is 96/100.

This assessment is based on 1,468 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.8/5.

Safety Analysis

95.8% of ratings point to a safe experience
1.3% of ratings suggest some concerns
2.9% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 1,468 App Store ratings for SSH Client.

Is SSH Client Legit?

SSH Client - Secure ShellFish appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for SSH Client is 100/100.

Based on 100 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Works!

Great SFTP & Terminal App. Works perfect.

Just right

Shellfish is a cheery terminal client I reach for 1st on iOS

Excellent app

Can’t fault it

Best SSH client with MacOS and iOS integration

I love this app. Integrates with Finder/Files and easy setup for terminal access. Enjoy using it with Bbedit too as the editor.

Amazing

Amazing really good client. Lots of features, fair pricing.

The BEST SSH client on the App Store!

I’ve been using ShellFish for years, and it has quickly become my favorite SSH client on any platform (though it’s only for Apple products)!

A wonderful app

Shellfish provides the perfect combination of features for my needs. It’s simple to use, fast to set up, and available on both iOS and MacOS. It’s just great

Great with Claude code and tmux

Great with Claude code and tmux

Very workable but not quite to Termius level industrial quality

I was surprised this works well enough to handle Google Antigravity (formerly Gemini) coding with its rapid screen output and resizing and colors rendering. But it has some glitches and lags for sure and cant handle scrolling up at your scrollback history the way other terminals can manage to (sometimes with toggle buttons). This seems to lack a few other features other terminals have but at least it does work and has a solid foundation from which to improve upon. I will probably come back and check how stable/improved this one is in 6-12 months. BUT ONLY IF THE DEVELOPER ALLOWS IOS 17.3.1 again because thats what i have on both devices as I’m a “JB” developer and that’s the highest iOS currently working on the new Dopamine 3.0 JB that came out last week, making major news in the iOS world.
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great app

although it's not (yet) as feature rich as some alternatives, it's developing at an incredible pace.

and i love that everything syncs between macos and ios, which means I don't have to carry my laptop around with me all the time.

keep up the great work

Every day

Love the app…no complaints…wish we could have had something similar about 15 years ago…who knows where we’d be.

Bester SSH Client

Ich nutze den Client für zahlreiche Raspberrys. Er bietet mir alle Funktionen, die mir wichtig sind. Einfache Konfiguration, einfache Anwendung und einen tollen Datenaustausch. Tolle Software, besten Dank!

Really good

Great features and very well maintained.

Needed SSH App

So far, after 5 minutes its great. Need more time try the features.

Meh

It is probably a good ssh client but I’m giving it three stars because the onboarding experience was not great.

If you want to save something through the files app you must have a Pro Subscription. To be clear this is fine. But it should not just fail with a cryptic error symbol and not tell you why. An upsell prompt would be a much better user experience than failing with no explanation! Ask for that money guys. It won’t hurt you.

After figuring that out I bought a sub but it wouldn’t recognize that I had done so and just kept prompting me to buy again. Doing a “restore purchases” fixed it and now everthing is working great. But getting to that point was more painful than it should have been.
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Very powerful

Setup took a little getting used to, but not bad. Works extremely well, and I have a feeling I’ve just scratched the surface of its functionality. Writing an ssh client for such a small screen and such a sandboxed platform like iOS is difficult, and I seriously doubt anyone has done it better.

Great

Great

Great application

cool stuff~

Very useful and productive

Even the free version is pretty great on its own. Love the app, have been using it for a while along with owlfiles on i15 and now I don’t feel like opening laptop anymore. The AI agents are accessible via terminal and there is an option to persist sessions with tmux

Responsive dev

very useful tool