iDevTools vs Shell SSH

iDevTools brings desktop-style DevTools to Safari on iPad and iPhone. Inspect pages, edit HTML and CSS, run JavaScript in Console, view Network requests, manage Cookies and Storage, browse Sources, and audit pages in a familiar Chrome-like interface. Dock it to the right or bottom, resize panels, use touch or trackpad, and keep your selected tab and workflow after page refreshes without restarting the tool. Built for developers who want a more complete web debugging experience directly inside mobile Safari.

Shell SSH is a focused SSH client for iPhone and iPad. It opens a real interactive terminal to the servers you administer — not a box that runs one command at a time. CONNECT • Save hosts with a name, address, port, username and notes • Authenticate with an SSH key or a password • Servers that only offer keyboard-interactive login, as some two-factor setups do, aren't supported yet • Search across names, addresses, usernames and notes • Open several sessions at once as tabs, and switch without disconnecting • On iPad, run two terminals side by side and drag the divider where you want it • Your tabs and your split come back the way you left them when you reopen the app SESSIONS THAT SURVIVE A LOCKED SCREEN • iOS suspends apps, which drops SSH connections when your device locks • Shell SSH can run your shell inside tmux so the session keeps running on the server and picks up exactly where you left off • It asks the first time, and remembers your answer — per host, or as a default for all of them • Close a tab and its tmux session is closed too, so nothing is left running behind your back A REAL TERMINAL • xterm-256color emulation with full 256-colour support • Alternate screen buffer, so full-screen programs behave the way they do on a desktop • A key row above the keyboard for Esc, Ctrl, Tab, arrows and common symbols — the keys iOS doesn't give you • Copy a selection or the whole scrollback, and paste, from the toolbar or with Command-C and Command-V • Pick a theme: Shell, Solarized Dark and Light, Dracula, Nord, Gruvbox, One Dark or Monokai • Adjustable font size, cursor style and scrollback • Resizes correctly on rotation, in Split View and in Stage Manager SNIPPETS • Keep the commands you run often and insert or run them in a tap • Fill-in-the-blank placeholders: write {{service}} once and be asked for it when you use it, with optional and prefilled values too • Insert leaves the command at the prompt so you can read it before you send it • 100 common commands included as examples, from systemctl and journalctl to docker and git • Searchable, reorderable, and yours to edit SSH KEYS • Generate Ed25519 keys on device • Import existing OpenSSH keys, including passphrase-protected ones • Copy a public key out to paste into authorized_keys • Fingerprints shown in the same SHA-256 form as ssh-keygen SECURITY FIRST • Server identity is verified on first connection, and you get a clear, blocking warning if a server's host key ever changes • Passwords and private keys are stored in the iOS Keychain, never in plain files. A private key leaves your device only if you export it • Optionally require Face ID or Touch ID before a saved credential can be used • When a login is refused, Shell SSH asks the server what it would have accepted, and tells you — so a server that doesn't take passwords says so instead of looking like a typo • Warns before pasting multiple lines, which could otherwise run several commands at once • Review and remove trusted server fingerprints whenever you want IPHONE AND IPAD • On iPad, your hosts sit alongside the terminal, and the list collapses when you want the full window • Focus mode on iPad gives one session the whole screen, with tabs, host list and toolbar out of the way until you tap for them. With a keyboard, Command-Shift-F goes in and out • On iPad, the terminal's controls live in the tab strip, so the terminal gets the room a title bar used to take • Light and dark appearance, following the system or set explicitly Shell SSH keeps its built-in key row deliberately small — just the keys a terminal needs. If you want a fuller terminal keyboard available in every app, Shell Keyboard is a separate companion app.