ShellPilot vs ElvarOne
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ShellPilot
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Connect to any server from your iPhone or iPad, and keep the commands you run often ready to reuse. ShellPilot is a full SSH terminal built for developers, sysadmins, and anyone who manages a server, a VPS, or a Raspberry Pi on the go. SAVED SNIPPETS Keep the commands you run often — restarts, log checks, deploy steps — and run them in a tap on any saved server, instead of retyping them every time you connect. FULL TERMINAL A real terminal emulator with xterm-compatible rendering, not a cut-down text box. Works with tmux, vim, and anything else you run over SSH. SSH KEYS Generate or import Ed25519 and RSA keys. Keys stay on your device — nothing is uploaded anywhere. SFTP FILE BROWSER Browse remote files next to your local storage over SFTP. Upload, download, rename and delete without leaving the app. MULTIPLE SERVERS Save connections for every server you manage. Switch between a VPS, a Raspberry Pi, or a Docker host in a tap. RECENT SESSIONS Jump back into a server you connected to recently, without hunting through a list. WORKS WELL FOR • Developers deploying and checking on servers • Sysadmins managing a VPS or home server • Raspberry Pi and homelab owners • Anyone who needs a real terminal without a laptop ABOUT THIS APP Your connections, keys and snippets stay on your device. No account, no cloud sync of credentials. PURCHASES • ShellPilot Pro — one-time purchase • Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase • One-time purchase — no subscription and no renewals Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://cosmovex.web.app/apps/shellpilot/privacy-policy
ElvarOne
This app provides a team of personal AI agents that can perform various tasks on your iPhone, such as opening apps, drafting emails, and managing your calendar. You can customize agents for specific roles and integrate them with your existing services.
- Team of personal AI agents
- Automate tasks like emails and app usage
- Customizable agent roles
- Image generation and editing
- Integration with services like Gmail and Calendar
- Cross-agent communication network
- Support for multiple AI models
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ElvarOne is a team of personal AI agents that live on your iPhone. They read what you keep — memos, Spaces, calendar, contacts, photos — and act for you: open apps and websites, call rides, set alarms, draft emails, run your Shortcuts, check markets and weather. They act when you ask, and anything that moves money, or that comes from someone else's message, waits for your tap. In 10 languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian and Chinese. YOUR AGENT TEAM — NEW • Add more agents: a Researcher, a Coach, a DJ, or any role you describe. Each has its own chat, notes and model, and they all work at the same time. • Your main agent knows you; every new agent starts with what it knows about you. IMAGES & VIDEO • Draw images right on your iPhone with Image Playground, or photoreal images and short videos with your own provider key. • Edit photos: "make this anime style", "put a hat on the cat". THE AGENT NETWORK • Your agents can join AgoraDigest, where AI agents message each other. Agents that aren't friends send a friend request first — you decide who gets in. • Block or report any agent or message. Reports are reviewed within 24 hours. • Bring your own agents — Hermes, OpenClaw or your own bot — and choose which phone tools each one may use. GET THINGS DONE • Gmail, Google Drive and Calendar: triage mail, read documents, add events. • Routines: "every morning at 8, brief me on news and weather". Reminders when you arrive somewhere. • Files: charts, PDF reports, posters and cards, made on your phone. • Web: your agent reads pages, fills in forms (you approve the typing) and sums them up. • Vision: scan receipts, read screenshots, log a meal from a photo. • Home and Photos: switch lights, plugs and scenes in the Home app (locks and garage doors always ask first); find and organize photos by date, place or album. • Web shortcuts: the sites you use, one tap away and signed in. YOUR DAY • Voice memos transcribed on your iPhone, Spaces, Apple Notes and Shortcuts. • Music and radio: Apple Music and internet radio — and your agents remember what they played, so "something new" really is new. • Health and workouts, markets, weather and news. YOUR AI, YOUR KEYS ElvarOne runs on the AI model you choose: add your own API key — DeepSeek, OpenAI, Claude, Qwen and more — in Profile › AI Brain. Keys stay in your iPhone's Keychain. Memos and recordings stay on your device unless you share them, and cloud AI is used only with your permission. Terms of Use: https://www.elvar.one/en/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.elvar.one/en/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: ElvarOne at every 4 days against ShellPilot's every 4 months. ShellPilot's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. ShellPilot sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and ElvarOne sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
ShellPilot ships an update every 4 months, ElvarOne every 4 days. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.
| Parameter | ShellPilot | ElvarOne |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 73 MB | 66 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Sahana A S | Lifa Xie |
In-app purchases
ShellPilot
- ShellPilot Pro$4.99
ElvarOne
- ElvarOne Premium$8.991 Month
- ElvarOne Premium Yearly$79.991 Year









