Comparison

DeckPilot vs SSHTerminalS

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

Head to head
About

DeckPilot

Transform your iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch into custom button decks for your Mac. Streamline workflows with customizable buttons, macros, and gestures that adapt to your active application. Enjoy tactile feedback and dynamic visual cues for enhanced productivity.

Highlights
  • Customizable button decks for Mac apps
  • Macro builder with AppleScript and Shortcuts integration
  • Tactile feedback and customizable haptics
  • Dynamic button states and visual cues
  • Trackpad gesture emulation
  • Touch Bar functionality on mobile devices
  • MIDI support for DAWs
Features
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Made for people who care about how they work with their Mac. The keyboard, mouse, and trackpad shape how you reach into your Mac. There's another way. DeckPilot turns your iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch into custom button decks that follow whichever app you're in. Logic, Xcode, Figma, Slack: the right buttons are always under your thumb. Quick to set up Install on your Mac and iPhone, connect once over Wi-Fi or USB. Auto-reconnects the way AirDrop does. No hardware to buy. Buttons for everything Tap to open Figma. Tap to mute Zoom. Tap to fire a 5-step macro. Build them from apps, files, websites, keyboard shortcuts, AppleScript, or Apple Shortcuts, and chain anything together in a visual macro builder. 300,000+ icons, or bring your own. One button, more than one move Tap for one thing, double-tap for another, hold for a third. Or hold to pop open a whole submenu of buttons from a single tile. One button can run your whole flow. Buttons you can feel Every press lands with a real mechanical click and a tactile thump. Pick the feel, from a crisp keyboard to a soft, heavy thock, with sound and haptics you tune separately. Your Mac's clipboard, on your phone Everything you copy on your Mac lands in a searchable history on your phone. Pin what you reuse, see when you copied it, and send any snippet back to your Mac with a tap. Images come through full-size. Every workflow its own look A teal gradient and big icons for your DAW. A tight grid with greyscale icons for your code editor. Pick from the community gallery or design your own. Buttons that already know A red mic pill on your Zoom button when you're muted. A live waveform on Spotify when it's playing. You stop checking your Mac, because the buttons already know. Keep your favorites close Pin the decks you live in and they stay a swipe away, whatever app you're in. Trackpad gestures you know Two fingers down to minimize, two up to maximize, three across to switch spaces. Or bind any swipe to almost anything: Apple Shortcuts, AppleScript, macros, jumping decks. Touch Bar, reborn Apple's Touch Bar is gone. DeckPilot brings it back as a floating glass strip on your phone. Volume, brightness, media, mic mute, a clock, and live Battery, CPU, and Memory readouts, colored to match each deck. Widgets on every screen Home Screen widgets put your top buttons one tap from anywhere. The Lock Screen widget shows your active deck without unlocking, and joins iOS 17+ StandBy on a charger. On your wrist, too A dedicated Apple Watch deck with multiple pages and real app icons. Digital Crown for volume and brightness. Complications for one-tap Mute and Play/Pause. Built-in MIDI for any DAW Faders, knobs, XY pads, velocity pads, and transport for Logic Pro, GarageBand, Ableton Live, FL Studio, and anything that speaks MIDI. Also good - Built-in AppleScript editor with ten dark themes - Auto-lock and OLED-safe auto-dim after a short idle - Share .deckpacks, browse community templates, try Demo Mode without pairing - Privacy-first. Commands stay on your Wi-Fi, nothing leaves your network Made for developers, designers, streamers, and musicians who want a faster way to drive their Mac. To unlock the full kit, DeckPilot offers an optional Pro subscription. Pro: $7.99/month or $39/year, auto-renewable. Lifetime: $79 one-time. Pro adds multi-page decks, larger grids, MIDI, macros, AppleScript, app-aware switching, multi-launch buttons, advanced gestures, Apple Watch, per-deck themes, and Shortcuts. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms: https://deckpilot.co/terms Privacy: https://deckpilot.co/privacy Support: https://deckpilot.co/support

About

SSHTerminalS

Features
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SSHTerminalS is an SSH terminal built for the moments you cannot reach a computer. When an alert arrives while you are out, or a batch job stalls and someone needs an answer now, this app lets you open a shell, read the logs, and take action from the phone already in your hand. Add a host, connect, work, move between servers, and keep everything safe — the whole flow lives in one app. ■ Designed Around Security • Encrypted credentials — Server passwords and private keys are never stored in plain text. They are encrypted with AES-256-GCM under a key protected by the iOS Keychain, with iCloud sync disabled so nothing is copied to other devices. • App Lock — Lock the entire app with a passphrase or Face ID. When enabled, the encryption key is derived from your passphrase, which means even someone holding your unlocked device cannot open your stored credentials without it. • Host key verification — New servers present their SHA256 fingerprint for your approval. If a fingerprint later changes, the app shows it beside the stored one and refuses to connect, so a possible man-in-the-middle never slips past unnoticed. • Screenshot blocking — Because credentials can appear in the terminal, screenshots and the app switcher preview are blocked by default. ■ A Terminal That Actually Works on a Phone • Multiple session tabs — Keep up to six sessions open and switch between them instantly. Connections and output survive tab changes and even leaving for the host list, so tailing a log on one server while inspecting another feels natural. • Auxiliary key bar — Ctrl, Esc, Tab, arrow keys, Home, End, PgUp, PgDn, and the punctuation you constantly need sit permanently below the terminal. Ctrl is a toggle, so combinations like Ctrl+C take one hand. • Connections that hold — On top of SSH keep-alive, an optional setting prevents disconnects caused by server-side idle timeouts. The screen stays awake while you work, and a reconnect button restores a dropped session immediately. • Flexible authentication — Connect with a password or a PEM private key, including passphrase-protected keys, and handle servers that require an OTP through two-factor prompts. • Copy and paste — Select terminal output to copy it, and paste that long command you prepared on your computer instead of retyping it. ■ A Host List That Survives a New Phone Your host list backs up automatically to the app-specific folder on your Google Drive. Passwords and private keys inside the backup are re-encrypted with a passphrase you choose before upload, so neither we nor Google nor anyone who obtains the file can open it. Manual JSON export and import are available as well. ■ Made to Fit Your Eyes Combine twelve accent color themes with Light, Dark, and System appearance modes. The terminal body always keeps its dark, low-glare background. The interface is natively available in English, Korean, Japanese, and Chinese in both Simplified and Traditional forms. Your servers, in your pocket — reach them the moment you need to, with SSHTerminalS. ■ More from Solution317 • Malsseummoa — A habit of listening to the Word, sermon streaming • BibleS — Read and search the Bible with ease • WeatherKoreaS — Korea's weather at a glance • CopyNPasteS — Copy & share your go-to phrases in one tap • MyNoteS — A safe, local-only notepad • PdfToImageS — PDF to images, safely offline • ResizeToS — Resize a whole folder at once • PhotoRenamerS — Rename photos by capture time • VolumeControlS — Set media volume in 10% steps made by Solution317

Screenshots

DeckPilot4 screens
SSHTerminalS4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SSHTerminalS at none against DeckPilot's 3. SSHTerminalS also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 4 days) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and device support 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. DeckPilot sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. SSHTerminalS asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DeckPilot ships an update every 4 days, SSHTerminalS daily. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
DeckPilot versus SSHTerminalS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDeckPilotSSHTerminalS
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (6 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB30 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKeshav Kewlanijinkyun kim

In-app purchases

3 purchases

DeckPilot

Subscriptions2
  • DeckPilot Pro$7.991 Month
  • DeckPilot Pro$39.001 Year
One-time1
  • Founding Member$79.00
None

SSHTerminalS

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is DeckPilot free?
DeckPilot is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SSHTerminalS free?
SSHTerminalS is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do DeckPilot or SSHTerminalS have ads?
Neither DeckPilot nor SSHTerminalS shows ads.
Which is updated more often, DeckPilot or SSHTerminalS?
DeckPilot ships an update every 4 days, and SSHTerminalS daily. Most recently, DeckPilot was updated on September 21, 2026 and SSHTerminalS on September 16, 2026.

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