Comparison

SSH Client vs WriteAccess

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

SSH Client

This app provides a powerful and advanced SSH and Telnet client for managing remote servers on iOS and Mac. It offers robust features like multi-session support, customizable terminals, and SFTP file transfer capabilities for seamless server administration.

Highlights
  • SSH and Telnet client
  • SFTP file transfer
  • Multi-session capability
  • Customizable terminal
  • Private key import/generation
  • Server folder organization
  • Bluetooth keyboard support
Features
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Here is one of the most intelligent & advanced SSH Client apps to manage and connect remote servers for your iOS and Mac devices About SSH Client: SSH Client is an on-the-go SSH-Telnet app with the best putty, console, and shell ios app with powerful remote access & terminal emulator. Our enterprise-grade mobile app is built for all kinds of server management needs. Our comprehensive features are not limited to terminal keyboard and language support, multi-session capability, and Bluetooth keyboard support but many more. Our SSH Client app can easily integrate with AWS, Azure, and Digital Ocean. The app is most popular because of its administrator-friendly approach; we have also considered our valued customers suggestions and constantly released updates for SSH Client to become reliable and robust in real-world usage and development. • Private key files can now be directly imported in multiple formats (RSA, DSA, Putty) using iTunes sharing from other apps and Clipboard • RSA / DSA key generation and authentication and share it via email or Clipboard • Get 'Local Notification Alert or blink' before the connection starts terminating • Quick retrieval of the last top 3 connected servers to join instantly SSH Client Functionalities: • Launch (Run) a saved command/script at connection startup • Connect with your servers using username, password, or private key authentication through SSH • Configurable' Standard and Non-Standard' port Adaptive Terminal: • Customize Terminal like background, foreground, cursor colour selection • Standard Terminal features, including 'Terminal Emulator with Editor.' • Personalize Terminal Size • Support Terminal Screen copy/paste and easy text selection Server Folders: • Organized groupwise server to easily and freely manage and control interoperability in a blink. Customizable Keyboard: • Fully External / Bluetooth keyboard support • Special keys such as Esc, Tab, Ctrl, /, :, -, !, |, $, * • Built-In keyboard keys with fixed keys like Ctrl, Alt, Tab, Esc, Up, Down, Left, Right and F1-12 Easy Connect: • Run multiple prompt sessions at a time • Active connection counts indicator at App Badge • Configure and manage unlimited future sessions to reduce workload Gesture Control: • Pinch Scaling Terminal Screen • One touch on / off for Auto scroll • Single tap connection/disconnection from 'Home Screen' Key Handy Features of Free SSH Client (Best Putty, Console, Shell App): • Works over mobile Cellular or WiFi network • Use Custom or Mac Built-In fonts • Uninterrupted operationality in 'Portrait or Landscape modes • Multiple editors supported like Vi, vim, pico, nano, etc • Built-in Passcode features • Its 'Universal Binary,' hence, no need to buy 2 apps for iPhone and iPad SFTP Functionalities: • Quickly create, rename, and delete files & directories • Easily edit text files • Upload and Download files from your device to your server and server to your device What's New? • Perform batch execution by selecting the servers • Integrate DigitalOcean droplets to a group in SSH • Add VM servers from the account • Integrate AWS to a group in SSH • Integrate Azure to a group in SSH Know about supported technologies: Protocols: SSH, SFTP Channel types: Session Shell, Session SFTP, Local Forward iOS versions: 14 Subscription Details: - Subscriptions allow users to have prompt access to all features with unlimited access to all platforms – Payment will be charged to iTunes Account – The free trial period lasts for 7 days and automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours - User can manage subscriptions & auto-renewal by turning it off from Account Settings after purchase - All features for all platforms will be disabled upon completion of the subscription Terms of use: http://moondialer.moontechnolabs.com/v1/ssh-terms Contact us at support@moonapps.xyz We welcome suggestions or feedback, as we keep adding new features based on our customers' feedback and requests.

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WriteAccess

Features
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A real SSH terminal, an editor that saves straight to the server, and live vitals — free, with no account and no subscription. Enough of a remote IDE to actually fix something from an iPhone or iPad. For the people who keep boxes running: a VPS, a homelab, a build server, the machine your coding agent lives on. A REAL TERMINAL, NOT A TOY Proper SSH shells, several at once over one connection. Full colour. A key row for the symbols a shell needs. Pinch to zoom. Tap where you want the cursor and the caret walks there, so fixing a typo mid-command is a tap rather than a marathon on the arrow key. It learns the commands you type and offers them back, on top of a bundled library of common ones. Copy out, paste in, both directions, like every other app on your phone. CHANGE A CONFIG. SAVE. DONE. Open a file over SFTP, edit it, save it, and it goes back exactly where it came from. No sync layer, no local copy to reconcile, no wondering which version is real. Saved means the server confirmed the write. And if a server cannot promise a clean atomic overwrite, the file opens read-only rather than gamble with your data — the one thing a text editor must never get wrong. YOUR AGENT, WHERE YOUR CODE IS Save a launch command per server — whatever CLI tool you run — and open a terminal straight into it. It runs on your machine, with your files and your toolchain, at your server's speed rather than your phone's. You just drive. SEE WHAT THE BOX IS DOING Uptime, load, memory, disk, and the processes eating your CPU, read off the machine over the connection you already have. Restart the service, watch the load settle, get on with your day. FILES AT BOTH ENDS Browse over SFTP — folders first, hidden files one tap away — and create, rename, delete and search filenames under the folder you connected to. Every connection is pinned to one folder you choose, so the browser cannot wander somewhere you did not mean it to go. Point the app at a folder in Files as well — On My iPhone, iCloud Drive, any Files provider — and edit in place, with proper Markdown highlighting. Get interrupted mid-sentence and your unsaved work is still there when you come back. YOUR SERVERS. YOUR KEYS. NOBODY ELSE. No account. No relay. No middleman. WriteAccess connects to your machines and nothing else. Sign in with a password, an SSH key — encrypted keys included — or the interactive prompt a lot of servers ask for instead. Host keys are pinned and checked on every connection; if one ever changes you see both fingerprints, and nothing connects until you say so. Credentials stay in the iOS Keychain. Your saved servers can follow you between devices through your own iCloud: the connection details travel, the passwords and keys do not. Those stay on the device you added them on. BUILT FOR iPAD, NOT JUST RESIZED Files and terminal side by side on a divider you can drag, vitals underneath. Landscape, multitasking, external keyboards, the lot. WHAT IT WILL NOT DO It is a hands-on tool, not a background service: sessions close when you leave, so it will not babysit an overnight job or notify you when one finishes. Logins that need more than one step, like an app code after your password, are not supported yet. UTF-8 text files up to 50 MiB, and anything over 5 MiB asks first. Filename search returns the first 200 matches. It is not an offline sync client and is not pretending to be one. Free, and free of the usual: no account, no subscription, no ads, no analytics, no telemetry.

Screenshots

SSH Client4 screens
WriteAccess4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: WriteAccess at none against SSH Client's 5. SSH Client's advantage is chart position (#82 vs unranked) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. SSH Client sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. WriteAccess asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SSH Client ships an update every 2 weeks, WriteAccess every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and September 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
SSH Client versus WriteAccess: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSSH ClientWriteAccess
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.6 (406 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews47.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings406 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
Best chart rank#82 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size65 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMoon Technolabs Pvt LtdAlec Burrett

Bugs and requests

SSH Client

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Incompatible with private networks
  • Keyboard issues on iPad Pro
  • Obscured terminal window on iPad
  • Crashes after initial use

Requested features

1 request
  • Add Chinese language support

WriteAccess

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

5 purchases

SSH Client

Subscriptions4
  • Weekly Plan$0.997 Days
  • Monthly Plan$2.991 Month
  • Half Yearly Plan$6.996 Months
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  • Yearly Plan$11.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Plan$29.99
None

WriteAccess

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SSH Client free?
SSH Client is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is WriteAccess free?
WriteAccess is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do SSH Client or WriteAccess have ads?
Neither SSH Client nor WriteAccess shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SSH Client or WriteAccess?
SSH Client ships an update every 2 weeks, and WriteAccess every 3 weeks. Most recently, SSH Client was updated on September 29, 2026 and WriteAccess on September 13, 2026.

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