Comparison

ServerKeep vs SSHush

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

Head to head
About

ServerKeep

Features
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**Your servers, in your pocket.** ServerKeep gives you real-time visibility into your Linux servers and full control over your Docker containers โ€” all from your iPhone or iPad. No daemons to install, no cloud services to sign up for, no agents running on your machines. ServerKeep connects directly over SSH using credentials stored securely in your device's Keychain. **Server Monitoring** Add your servers and instantly see what matters. ServerKeep pulls live system stats including CPU usage, memory breakdown, disk I/O, network throughput, and TCP health โ€” presented through clean, purpose-built gauges and charts. See which servers are online at a glance, drill into detailed breakdowns, and keep tabs on temperature and uptime. **Memory Insights** Go beyond simple "used vs. free" numbers. ServerKeep breaks memory down into used, page cache, and available โ€” with visual progress bars and a segmented ring chart โ€” so you can tell at a glance whether your server is actually under pressure or just caching aggressively. **Docker Container Management** View all running containers across your servers. Start, stop, and restart containers with a tap. Inspect port mappings, health status, and container images. View and save Docker Compose configurations directly from the app. **Docker Compose Support** Organise your containers into Compose pods. See pod status, manage the full lifecycle, and keep your stack definitions accessible wherever you are. **Built-in Terminal** Need to run a quick command or debug something hands-on? ServerKeep includes a fully interactive SSH terminal with PTY support. No need to switch to a separate app. **Saved Snippets** Save frequently used commands as snippets and run them on any server with a single tap. Perfect for common maintenance tasks, health checks, or deployment scripts you run regularly. **Designed for Privacy** ServerKeep never phones home. Your server credentials are stored exclusively in the iOS Keychain on your device. All connections go directly from your device to your servers. There are no analytics, no tracking, and no third-party services involved. **Built Natively for iOS** ServerKeep is built entirely with SwiftUI and takes full advantage of the platform โ€” smooth animations, native controls, and an interface that feels right at home on your device.

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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

ServerKeep4 screens
SSHush4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: SSHush at every 10 days against ServerKeep's every 2 months. ServerKeep's advantage is iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. ServerKeep sells 1 one-off in-app purchase 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ServerKeep ships an update every 2 months, SSHush every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on September 15, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
ServerKeep versus SSHush: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterServerKeepSSHush
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 10 days โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad โ€” better
Requires iOS17.6 โ€” better26.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size8 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDesmond KramerNicholas Webster

In-app purchases

1 purchases

ServerKeep

One-time1
  • Server Monitor - ServerKeep$9.99
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 ServerKeep free?
ServerKeep is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SSHush free?
SSHush is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do ServerKeep or SSHush have ads?
Neither ServerKeep nor SSHush shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ServerKeep or SSHush?
ServerKeep ships an update every 2 months, and SSHush every 10 days. Most recently, ServerKeep was updated on September 15, 2026 and SSHush on September 21, 2026.

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