ServerDoor vs MXa

ServerDoor allows you to use your smartphone like a secure door for remote access to your personal server. A user-friendly session manager with a simple and intuitive interface, a full-featured terminal emulator that supports gesture control, as well as a tool for working with SSH keys - now all those thing can be placed in your pocket. Connect to your servers with using telnet and ssh protocols to administrate them in any situation anytime. Main advantages and functions: -The tool for working with SSH keys allows you to generate them, as well as to import and export them. RSA, DSA, EC, ED25519 keys are supported, and the openssh-key-v1 format is used to store them. -Thanks to the built-in password manager, you do not have to keep in mind the passwords for each server and key. The password database is stored on the device and encrypted with AES256-CBC using the master key. You can manage the password manager or disable it altogether in the settings. -Snippets system will be useful for advanced shell admins and can be used for make scripts those you can call from terminal session anytime. -Export and import app data features allows you exchange data between different devices or make backups anytime. -Convenient gesture control makes it possible to change the font size in the terminal by simply stretching instead of constantly switching to settings, and sticky scrolling allows you to quickly navigate even in the most voluminous sessions. • Advanced terminal emulator, supports most ESC sequences, SGR and utf8 encoding. • Additional keyboard and hot buttons, allow you to use most commands and keyboard shortcuts, as well as emulate mouse clicks in terminal applications. -Supports simultaneous operation of an unlimited number of running sessions, including in the background, when the application is minimized. -The ability to manually set a limit on the number of lines stored for each session (or disable the limit altogether), allows you to flexibly configure the device's memory consumption by running sessions. Whether you want to store the whole session or set a hard limit to save memory is up to you. -To save memory, session data is compressed and stored in a fragmented way, which allows you to turn off the limit and store even the most voluminous sessions without large buffer allocation errors. Tired of Telnet clients cutting HTTP responses without even allowing you to view the header? Then this app is for you!

MXa turns your iPhone or iPad into a screen and a keyboard for a computer you own. You see the whole desktop, exactly as it is on the machine itself, and you drive all of it: move the pointer, click, scroll, type, send keyboard shortcuts, copy and paste between the two devices. Nothing is installed into the apps you work with over there. Getting in takes two numbers. The other machine shows a 9-digit ID and a 6-digit code; you type them here once. No account to create, no email to leave, no VPN to configure, no router port to open. On the same Wi-Fi the two devices talk directly and the picture never leaves your network. Over distance they meet at a relay that only moves bytes — the 6-digit code never crosses the wire, and the keys are derived at the two ends, so what passes through the middle cannot be read there. The picture is H.264 at 30 frames per second, encoded by the hardware at the far end. On a thin connection the bitrate drops instead of the picture freezing. Lose signal, switch Wi-Fi, lock the screen and come back: the session rebuilds itself. Made for a finger, not for a mouse pretending to be one. Tap where you want the pointer, drag to scroll, pinch to zoom into a corner of a large desktop. The shortcut row sits on the software keyboard, so Command-Tab and Command-Q are one tap away instead of a hunt. Also here: a clipboard shared both ways, several displays to switch between, and text in Vietnamese or any other Unicode script typed straight through. WHAT YOU NEED A computer you own, running macOS 14 Sonoma or later, with the free MXa desktop app on it — and this device. Both ends are the same connection: no server to rent, no ports to open. On your own network there is no time limit. Over the internet a session ends after a while unless the machine you are reaching has been activated.