Chillbox vs Pi SSH

Chillbox watches your Raspberry Pi, Linux server, NAS or Mac over plain SSH - no agent to install, no account, no cloud in the middle, no telemetry. Your credentials never leave your phone, and every security finding comes with the exact command that fixes it. WHAT IT WATCHES CPU, memory, disk, network and uptime, live, each on an instrument built for that reading rather than a generic card. Temperature and throttling when the machine has sensors. Load average, per-core usage, disk I/O. It refreshes in the background and raises alerts locally, on your phone, not through anyone's cloud. WHAT IT RECOGNIZES Pi-hole, AdGuard Home, Home Assistant, Plex, Jellyfin, Node-RED, Mosquitto, Zigbee2MQTT, OctoPrint, Portainer, Uptime Kuma, Frigate, Syncthing, Grafana, Transmission and Tailscale. It finds them on its own, tells you which are running and which are only pretending to, and knows the difference between a service you stopped and one that died. PROXMOX Virtual machines and LXC containers, start and stop from the phone. A machine set to start with the server but sitting off gets flagged. LXC containers open a terminal already inside them. And when a VM stops booting, SSH into it is dead by definition; the console still works, because it travels over an SSH channel of its own. No tunnel, no open port. ADMIN PANELS, NO TUNNEL RITUAL Chillbox knows what runs on each machine, so it builds the SSH tunnel itself and opens Pi-hole, Uptime Kuma, Portainer and eleven more inside the app. No local port, no remote host, nothing to type. The button only appears when the port is actually listening, even when the container claims to be up. ZFS POOLS Degraded pools, failed disks, pools running out of space, and fragmentation, the one reading df cannot give you. A machine without ZFS does not report zero healthy pools; it says the check does not apply. ONE VERDICT FOR THE FLEET A single line above the server list, and the servers grouped by what they need from you. A server that cannot be reached sits with the critical ones, never with the healthy. Up to four servers refresh in parallel, and opening one no longer disconnects the rest. DOCKER, SYSTEMD AND HOMEBREW Start, stop and restart containers and units from your phone. On a Mac it reads Homebrew services instead of systemd units, and asks launchctl whether each one is actually running rather than trusting what Homebrew declares. Read logs without opening a terminal, and open one when you want to. FILES AND KEYS Browse the machine's files over SFTP, read a config without opening a terminal, and manage your SSH keys in the app. NO SCORE The assessment screen refuses to give your server a score, because any single number that sums one critical and four warnings misorders some pair of them. Instead: nine categories, only the one that hurts lit up, findings ranked worst first, and the exact command for each. Checks that cannot run on your machine say so instead of quietly passing. TRY IT WITHOUT A SERVER A demo server ships in the app: 24 hours of history and a read-only SFTP browser, all invented data and labelled as such. Walk every screen before you point the app at a real machine. WORKS ON A PI, ON LINUX, AND ON A MAC A Raspberry Pi, a VPS, a NAS, a Proxmox container, an old laptop, a Mac mini running as a server. It asks each machine what it can report and shows only that: no empty cards, no invented zeros, no number it did not measure. macOS exposes no temperature, disk I/O or CPU frequency over SSH, so the app says that on screen instead of leaving a gap you have to interpret. Chillbox is the new name for Fusebox. Same app, same developer, same promise. One purchase, $7.99, forever. No subscription, no account, nothing recurring.

Pi SSH is the Raspberry Pi control app with a real interactive SSH terminal — plus SFTP files, live monitoring, GPIO, Docker, and systemd. Connect over direct LAN SSH (no cloud relay) from iPhone or iPad. SSH TERMINAL (NEW IN 2.0) Open a full VT100/xterm SSH terminal to your Raspberry Pi or Linux box. Colors, interactive tools (htop, nano, vim), password or Ed25519 keys, optional jump/bastion host, on-screen shortcuts (Tab, Ctrl+C, arrows), and reconnect when the shell ends. The terminal uses its own session so live metrics keep updating. CONNECT WITH CONFIDENCE Clearer connection help when SSH fails, plus Scan network from the error screen. Bonjour discovery and Wi‑Fi subnet scanning find Pis on your local network. SFTP FILE MANAGER Browse folders, upload and download files, edit text configs, rename, copy, move, and delete — plus upload from the iOS share sheet. DOCKER & SYSTEMD Start, stop, and restart containers and services. View Docker and journal logs with live follow. GPIO CONTROL 40-pin pinout grid with per-pin input/output, PWM, custom labels, and bus-pin safety prompts. SYSTEM MONITORING CPU, memory, temperature, disk, and network — with charts and history. Home Screen widgets show the latest metrics after you capture them in the app. SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION Docker containers & images • systemd units • apt upgradable packages • journal/syslog viewer • edit boot or SSH config files. NETWORK TOOLS Local-network SSH discovery (Bonjour + subnet scan), Wake-on-LAN, TCP port checks, plus ping/traceroute run on the Pi. SNIPPETS & MACROS Save commands and run them with one tap; chain steps into macros. PRIVACY-FIRST Secrets stay in Keychain. Works over LAN/VPN — your credentials never pass through our servers. Supports Raspberry Pi OS and other Debian/Ubuntu-style Linux installs.