Comparison

termique vs Shellter

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

Head to head
About

termique

Features
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SSH without the usual friction. Your servers, credentials, and SSH keys synced securely across every device you own. Termique is a modern SSH client built for developers who manage servers across multiple devices. No more re-entering credentials every time you switch machines add a host once, and it's available everywhere: your laptop, desktop, and now your iPhone.

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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 โ€” 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 โ€” 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 โ€” 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 โ€” your password is never sent to a server that failed the check. WHERE YOUR SECRETS LIVE โ€” 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 โ€” SSH and SFTP are verified by host-key pinning. FTPS is encrypted but does not verify the certificate. FTP is cleartext. Prefer SFTP.

Screenshots

termique4 screens
Shellter4 screens

Verdict

The call

termique and Shellter are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
termique versus Shellter: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametertermiqueShellter
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyFortnightlyโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size35 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRafi Bagaskara HalilintarBlocify LLC

In-app purchases

None

termique

No in-app purchases

None

Shellter

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is termique free?
termique is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Shellter free?
Shellter is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do termique or Shellter have ads?
Neither termique nor Shellter shows ads.

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