Comparison

SSHush vs ScreenSave

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

Head to head
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SSHush

Features
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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/

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ScreenSave

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ScreenSave is a focused cleanup tool for one job: managing screenshot clutter quickly and safely. Instead of scrolling your full camera roll, ScreenSave finds screenshots only. Review them in a clean flow, then hide, copy to iCloud Drive, move to iCloud and remove from Photos, or delete with confirmation. Built to be private and predictable: your library stays on device, and every action is user-approved. Start free with up to 10 screenshots at a time, then unlock Unlimited once. No subscription. The app scans for screenshots only, so you can quickly review what’s safe to clear out. From there, you can hide screenshots in Photos, copy them to iCloud Drive, move them to iCloud and delete them from Photos, or delete them entirely. ScreenSave is designed to be simple, fast, and private. Your photo library stays on your device, and you stay in control of every action with confirmation before anything is removed. Free users can try ScreenSave with up to 10 screenshots at a time. A one-time Unlimited purchase removes the cap for larger cleanups. Features: β€’ Finds screenshots only β€’ Hide screenshots in Photos β€’ Copy screenshots to iCloud Drive β€’ Move screenshots to iCloud and delete from Photos β€’ Delete screenshots with confirmation β€’ One-time purchase for Unlimited access β€’ No subscription If your Photos app is full of old captures, receipts, memes, and random saved screens, ScreenSave makes it easy to tidy them up in minutes.

Screenshots

SSHush4 screens
ScreenSave4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: SSHush at weekly against ScreenSave's every 3 weeks. 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. SSHush sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and ScreenSave sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SSHush ships an update weekly, ScreenSave every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference Β· 5 level
SSHush versus ScreenSave: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSSHushScreenSave
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeekly β€” betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad β€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size20 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNicholas WebsterChristopher Sayce

In-app purchases

7 purchases

SSHush

Subscriptions7
  • 1 Server$1.991 Month
  • 2 Servers$3.991 Month
  • 5 Servers$5.991 Month
Show 4 more
  • 10 Servers$9.991 Month
  • 15 Servers$11.991 Month
  • 25 Servers$14.991 Month
  • 50 Servers$24.991 Month
1 purchases

ScreenSave

One-time1
  • Unlimited$0.99

Questions

Is SSHush free?
SSHush is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ScreenSave free?
ScreenSave is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do SSHush or ScreenSave have ads?
Neither SSHush nor ScreenSave shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SSHush or ScreenSave?
SSHush ships an update weekly, and ScreenSave every 3 weeks. Most recently, SSHush was updated on October 31, 2026 and ScreenSave on October 31, 2026.

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