Comparison

Dust Asst vs SSHush

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

Head to head
About

Dust Asst

Features
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【Dust Cleaning Assistant】 provides comprehensive hardware diagnostics and system health monitoring powered by artificial intelligence. **Hardware Health Analysis** The application monitors key hardware components in real time, including temperature sensors, fan speeds, and system resource utilization to maintain optimal device performance. **Intelligent Diagnostics** Advanced AI algorithms analyze system data to identify potential issues, providing clear assessments of device condition without requiring technical expertise. **Performance Monitoring** Continuous tracking of CPU, memory, and storage metrics helps users understand how their device operates under different workloads and usage patterns. **System Insights** The AI engine generates actionable recommendations based on collected data, offering guidance for maintaining long-term device reliability and efficiency. This tool serves users who want to maintain awareness of their device's health status through automated monitoring and intelligent analysis. Premium Account Pricing and Terms $ 4.99/week* $ 39.99/year* *Prices shown are in U.S. dollars; actual charges may be converted to your local currency. Payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renewal is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period, and the renewal cost will be provided. Subscriptions can be managed by the user. Turning off auto-renewal may be done by going to your account settings after purchase. Cancellation of the current subscription is not allowed during the active subscription period. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication. EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://qiangmind.xyz/qinghuizhushou/privacy.html

About

SSHush

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3am. Your phone is face down in a drawer, on battery, in Low Power Mode. /var crosses 95%. You get woken up. That sentence is the entire product, and it is harder to deliver than it looks. An alert computed on your phone can only fire when iOS chooses to wake your phone, and iOS makes no guarantee that it ever will. Background execution is throttled on battery, suspended in Low Power Mode, stopped completely by a force quit, and starved hardest overnight - precisely when you need it. Worse, it fails in silence. You see your thresholds configured and you assume you are covered. TWO SYSTEMS, DELIBERATELY SEPARATE Live metrics come from your phone's own SSH session. Open the app, it connects, you see the server as it is right now. Alerting is a different system entirely. A small agent runs on your server and reports outward on its own schedule, independently of your phone. It does not care whether the app is open, backgrounded, force-quit or deleted from your home screen. A threshold breach originates on the server and arrives as a real push notification. If a server card shows as offline, that describes your phone's SSH connection. It says nothing about your alerting, which is still running. Your server speaks. Your phone listens. Nothing in between. Everything a monitoring platform does about a crossed threshold. None of the platform. No dashboard to host. No port to expose. No domain, no reverse proxy, no account. No platform sitting between your servers and you. No other iOS app does this. Every alternative either computes its alerts on the phone, which iOS can throttle or stop without telling you, or asks you to stand up and secure a dashboard of your own, or routes you through a monitoring platform with an account and a seat. FREE, AND NOT A TRIAL Unlimited servers. Full metrics. No agent, no account, no signup. Per-core CPU, temperature, memory, swap, disk by mount, load average, network interfaces. A full SSH terminal. Your servers sync across your devices through iCloud. This tier is agentless and always will be. Nothing is installed on anything. ALERTING, AS A SUBSCRIPTION Enable it on a server and the app installs the agent over the SSH connection you already have. There is nothing to sign up for and nothing to go and look at afterwards. Rules are configured in the app: CPU, memory, swap, disk per mount point, load average, temperature, interface down. And silence. If the agent stops reporting, you hear about it - the failure a monitoring system exists to catch, and the one a check on your phone can never see, because a sleeping phone and a dead server look identical from the inside. Every rule fires on sustained breach, not on a momentary spike. READ EVERY LINE BEFORE YOU INSTALL IT Alerting asks something real of you: a binary, on your server. You should not agree to that on trust. The agent is open source, Apache 2.0. github.com/ultra-nick/sshush-agent It runs as an unprivileged user, never as root, under systemd restrictions that make your filesystem read-only to it apart from one directory. It never listens on a port. It never executes a remote command. It never downloads anything, ever. Its whole network footprint is two URLs you can read in a config file. Metrics are sampled and rules evaluated on your server. Only a crossed threshold is ever sent. The numbers never leave the machine. Nothing else is touched. No package manager integration, no cron entry, no existing file modified. One command removes it completely, or the app asks it to remove itself. Your SSH credentials never leave your device. They live in your iCloud Keychain. Our infrastructure has never held an SSH credential and is not built to. Monitoring is free, unlimited and agentless. Alerting is there when silence stops being acceptable. --- Requirements: iOS 26.0 or later. iCloud syncs your servers and alert history across your devices. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Dust Asst3 screens
SSHush4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Dust Asst at 16.0 against SSHush's 26.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Dust Asst sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and SSHush sells 14 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference Β· 5 level
Dust Asst versus SSHush: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDust AsstSSHush
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyβ€”Every 10 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad β€” better
Requires iOS16.0 β€” better26.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size3 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHONG KONG WOOKAKA PET PRODUCTS CO., LIMITEDNicholas Webster

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Dust Asst

Subscriptions2
  • Weekly Boost3 Days trial$4.997 Days
  • Yearly Boost$39.991 Year
14 purchases

SSHush

Subscriptions14
  • 1 Server$1.991 Month
  • 2 Servers$3.991 Month
  • 5 Servers$5.991 Month
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  • 10 Servers$9.991 Month
  • 15 Servers$11.991 Month
  • 6 Servers$12.001 Month
  • 7 Servers$14.001 Month
  • 25 Servers$14.991 Month
  • 8 Servers$16.001 Month
  • 9 Servers$18.001 Month
  • 11 Servers$22.001 Month
  • 12 Servers$24.001 Month
  • 50 Servers$24.991 Month
  • 14 Servers$28.001 Month

Questions

Is Dust Asst free?
Dust Asst is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SSHush free?
SSHush is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Dust Asst or SSHush have ads?
Neither Dust Asst nor SSHush shows ads.

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