Pinghawk vs Shellter
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β with what reviewers say about each.
Pinghawk
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PingHawk keeps watch over your websites, APIs, and servers around the clock so you're the first to know when something goes down β not your customers. Set up an HTTP/HTTPS monitor in seconds and PingHawk checks it from multiple regions across the globe. The moment a check fails, we confirm the outage from several locations to rule out false alarms, open an incident, and alert your team instantly. WHY PINGHAWK β’ Global monitoring β checks run from North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America so you see what your users see. β’ Instant alerts β get notified by push, email, and SMS the second a site or API goes down, and again when it recovers. β’ Smart incident detection β multi-region confirmation and configurable thresholds mean fewer false positives and less alert fatigue. β’ Response-time analytics β track latency trends and percentiles over time with clean, readable charts. β’ Uptime reporting β see uptime percentages and historical check results at a glance. β’ SSL awareness β stay ahead of expiring certificates and TLS issues. β’ Team collaboration β organize monitors, share dashboards, and manage who gets alerted. BUILT FOR PEACE OF MIND Whether you run a single landing page or a fleet of production APIs, PingHawk gives you a clear, real-time picture of what's up, what's down, and how fast everything is responding β all from your pocket. Create monitors, review incidents, and manage alerts on the go. Your dashboard travels with you. Start monitoring for free today.
Shellter
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Shellter is an SSH, SFTP and FTP client that keeps everything on your phone. There is no account to create, nothing syncs, and the app sends no telemetry. It opens connections to the servers you type in, and makes no other network request. That is the whole product. A REAL TERMINAL β An interactive shell rendered with xterm, not a toy console. It follows the keyboard, resizes the remote PTY when you rotate the phone, and keeps 10,000 lines of scrollback FILES WITHOUT A SECOND LOGIN β Browse, upload, download, rename, delete and create folders over SFTP or FTP. Open the file browser from inside a live SSH session and it reuses that connection instead of opening another one. A download never silently overwrites a file you already have. HOST KEYS, PINNED AND CHECKED β The server's host key is pinned the first time you connect and compared on every reconnect. If it does not match, the connection stops BEFORE authentication β your password is never sent to a server that failed the check. WHERE YOUR SECRETS LIVE β Passwords and private keys go into the iOS Keychain, hardware-backed where supported, stored "this device only" so they cannot be restored onto another phone. HONEST ABOUT PROTOCOLS β SSH and SFTP are verified by host-key pinning. FTPS is encrypted but does not verify the certificate. FTP is cleartext. Prefer SFTP.
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Verdict
Pinghawk and Shellter are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters β price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them β neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Pinghawk | Shellter |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | β |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details β not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DIVELLC | Blocify LLC |
In-app purchases
Pinghawk
No in-app purchases
Shellter
No in-app purchases





