SSH Client & Terminal vs Pulse
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SSH Client & Terminal
A comprehensive SSH client and server monitor for managing Linux servers, VPS, and Docker containers. Offers real-time dashboards, SFTP, SSL alerts, and system log viewing. Securely stores credentials on your device.
- Multi-server dashboard with health scores
- Full SSH terminal with VT100/xterm emulation
- Real-time monitoring charts
- SSL certificate expiry tracking
- Docker and Podman container management
- SFTP browser
- System log viewer
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A full SSH client and Linux server monitor in your pocket. Cura gives sysadmins, DevOps engineers, and developers a real terminal, live VPS dashboards, SFTP, Docker controls, and SSL alerts - for every server you run. Built by people who actually live in the shell. No subscriptions, no telemetry, no nonsense. KEY FEATURES - Multi-server dashboard with health scores and live CPU, RAM, and disk usage - Full SSH terminal with VT100 and xterm emulation, function keys, and landscape mode - Real-time monitoring charts for CPU, RAM, disk, network, swap, load, and processes - SSL certificate discovery and expiry tracking for your domains - Alerts for threshold breaches with process-level context - Runbooks - save and execute multi-line commands with one tap - System log viewer with color-coded output for syslog, auth.log, nginx, apache, and more - Uptime monitoring with HTTP, HTTPS, TCP, and Ping checks - Docker and Podman container management - start, stop, restart, view logs - systemd service control - start, stop, and restart services remotely - SFTP browser for navigating remote files - Home screen widget showing server health at a glance - Face ID and Touch ID app lock to protect server access - Light, dark, and system themes SECURITY Your server credentials never leave your device. Passwords and private keys are encrypted in the iOS Keychain with hardware-backed protection. Authentication supports passwords, Ed25519, and RSA private keys. PRO UPGRADE The free tier supports two servers with the full SSH terminal and basic monitoring. Cura Pro is a one-time purchase that unlocks: - Unlimited servers - Alerts for CPU, RAM, disk, and uptime thresholds - SSL certificate expiry tracking - Custom runbooks - Uptime monitoring - Home screen widget - Notification history No subscriptions. One purchase, yours forever. LANGUAGES Cura is available in 20 languages: English, Arabic, German, Spanish, French, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, Vietnamese, Simplified and Traditional Chinese. PRIVACY Your server credentials are stored only on your device. We do not collect, transmit, or have access to your credentials, command output, or server data. See our privacy policy at https://saltserv.com/privacy/. SUPPORT Questions or feedback? Visit https://saltserv.com/support/ or contact support directly through the app.
Pulse
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Pulse is a network toolbox for iPhone and iPad, built for the people who get asked why the network is slow. It measures a network and tells you what the numbers mean — and opens a terminal on the machine at the other end. PULSE — CONTINUOUS PATH MONITORING Re-walks the path to a host every few seconds and keeps a window per hop, so a router losing one packet in twenty becomes visible. It tells a hop dropping your traffic from one merely rate-limiting its own replies; most tools paint both red. HEALTH CHECK Eight checks and a plain verdict in about ten seconds — the link, this device's address, the router, the neighbours, DNS, the internet, your public address, any VPN — naming the earliest failure. SERVICES Sixteen everyday services — video calls, files, sign-in and mail, remote desktop — checked against their real endpoints in about fifteen seconds, with a plain verdict. DEVICES Everything else on this network, named by what each device advertises, with an opt-in port check. WEB CHECK (PULSE PRO) Load any page the way a browser does and see where the time went: redirects, DNS, connect, TLS, the server's wait, the download, and everything the page pulled in, by site. A picture shows whether you reached the site or a Wi-Fi login or block page. ON THE LOCK SCREEN AND HOME SCREEN A running Pulse is a Live Activity on the Lock Screen, in the Dynamic Island and on your Apple Watch, and it alerts you when the path turns bad. A widget answers "is this network OK right now?", refreshed in the background. SIRI, SHORTCUTS AND CONTROL CENTER Ask Siri whether the network is OK, ping your router, check a certificate or your public address — without opening the app. Run any of it from Shortcuts, an automation or the Action button, or tap Check network in Control Center and get the verdict as a notification. AI DIAGNOSIS A reading of any run, written for a ticket: what is wrong, where, why, and what to try next. You are asked before anything is sent, and told exactly what goes. TERMINAL SSH and telnet, with passwords and keys in the Keychain. Open one straight from a traceroute hop or a device on your network. Every command you ran, per host, searchable, with anything irreversible marked. SFTP in two panes. AND THE REST Certificates (and whether the server sent its intermediates), ping with RFC 3550 jitter, traceroute over ICMP, UDP or TCP, path MTU, DNS, WHOIS over RDAP or port 43, interfaces, routes, VPN and proxy state. EVERY RUN IS KEPT And judged again, against today's thresholds, each time you open it. Pin any tool to one interface to measure Wi-Fi and cellular separately. PULSE PRO Every network test is free, and so are the terminal, the Live Activity, the widget and seven days of history. Pro adds the AI diagnosis, Web check, certificate alerts, each service's endpoints and your organisation's own, device names that stick and what is new on your network, a link test between your own devices, two interfaces or IPv4 and IPv6 side by side, up to six Pulses at once, session comparison, picture and CSV export, full history synced through your own iCloud, sessions that stay open, command history and suggestions, file transfer, and a terminal on any hop or neighbour. Pulse Pro is an auto-renewing subscription, monthly or yearly. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase and renews unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage it in Settings. Privacy Policy: https://peltriaux.com/pulse/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Pulse terms: https://peltriaux.com/pulse/terms PRIVACY No accounts, no analytics, no advertising, no trackers. Your runs stay on this device, and sync through your own iCloud — which the developer cannot read — only if you turn that on. Nothing you type in the terminal reaches the developer or an AI diagnosis. Only the AI diagnosis sends anything to a service the developer runs, and only when you ask.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Pulse at every 3 days against SSH Client & Terminal's weekly. 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. SSH Client & Terminal sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and Pulse sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
SSH Client & Terminal ships an update weekly, Pulse every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SSH Client & Terminal | Pulse |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Oday Maleh | Pascal Peltriaux |
In-app purchases
SSH Client & Terminal
- Cura Pro$4.997 Days
- Cura Pro7 Days trial$39.991 Year
- Cura Pro Lifetime$99.99
Pulse
- Pulse Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
- Pulse Pro Yearly$19.991 Year









