GateShell vs PromptSpend
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GateShell
This app provides a secure and private SSH, Mosh, and SFTP client that runs entirely on-device. It offers advanced terminal features, server management dashboards, and file editing capabilities, all without relying on external servers or tracking user data.
- Zero-backend SSH, Mosh, and SFTP client
- On-device credential management
- Native Mosh with persistent sessions
- Server management dashboards (Docker, DBs, etc.)
- SFTP file transfer with background retry
- Built-in code editor with syntax highlighting
- AI coding agent integration
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GateShell is an SSH, Mosh, and SFTP client, and a full server command center. Your servers, your keys, your device, nothing in between. No backend, no relays, no tracking. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Zero backend. GateShell runs entirely on-device. There's no server to breach because there is no server. • Credentials live in the hardware-encrypted Apple Keychain, or on Secure Enclave keys that never leave your device, not even as an export. • No analytics, no telemetry. We don't know who you are or what you connect to. CONNECT, AND STAY CONNECTED • Native Mosh, with encrypted UDP and predictive local echo. Change networks, close the lid, come back hours later: your session is still there. • Jump hosts reach private servers through a bastion, with per-hop auth and host-key checks. • Import your ~/.ssh/config, or bulk-import servers from CSV. • SSH, Mosh, and Telnet, with automatic SSH fallback when UDP is blocked. SECURE CONNECTIONS • Verified host keys, pinned per server, with a warning the instant one changes. • Generate ed25519, P-256, RSA, or Secure Enclave hardware-backed keys, or import a PuTTY .ppk, including Argon2-encrypted ones. • Security Assistant scans for missing updates, exposed listeners, weak SSH policy, firewall gaps, and expiring certificates. Every finding shows its evidence, and guided fixes run allow-listed commands only after you approve them. • Face ID / Touch ID lock keeps your servers safe even if your device isn't. A REAL TERMINAL • Full XTerm-256 color terminal with fullscreen, scrollback search, and a customizable toolbar. • Two- and four-pane terminals with optional input broadcast. • 32 themes, bundled Nerd Fonts, custom font import, and named keyboard layouts. • Command snippets with ${VAR} prompts, run across many hosts at once. MANAGE THE WHOLE SERVER • 20+ built-in dashboards: Docker, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Nginx, Caddy, Traefik, Firewall, Cron, PM2, WireGuard, Fail2Ban and more. Each one shows the status and acts on it. • Fleet broadcasts one command to every server at once. • Live health monitoring with restart, logs, and failure alerts. • Install the optional open-source agent on your own server for metric history and push alerts when a service drops, a disk fills, or a cron job fails. It runs on your box, not ours. FILES & CODE • Upload and download over SFTP with progress tracking and background retry. • Show your servers in the Files app, and open remote files like local ones. • Built-in editor with syntax highlighting and find/replace for 13+ languages. • Git on the go: status, stage, commit, and review diffs. • App Preview opens your dev server right in the app, tunneled over your existing SSH connection. BRING YOUR OWN CODING AGENT • Start, resume, and interrupt Claude Code, Codex, or Gemini CLI in any project on your server, straight from the terminal. • It runs under your account, with your CLI. GateShell never proxies it and never sees your provider keys. AI THAT STAYS ON THE DEVICE • Describe what you want in plain English, and GateShell composes the command on-device via Apple Intelligence. • Long output gets an instant, structured summary with error and warning counts. • A multi-step agent proposes a plan and runs it, with your approval on every step. • Automatic secret redaction and a risk warning before dangerous commands run. AT A GLANCE • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets for quick connect, server health, and your last session, plus a Live Activity that tracks the connection you're on. SYNC EVERYWHERE • iCloud syncs your servers, snippets, and known hosts across iPhone, iPad, and Mac, end-to-end encrypted. Free to start. Pro unlocks unlimited servers, SFTP, Mosh, port forwarding, the full dashboard suite, and more. On-device AI features require a device that supports Apple Intelligence. Terms of Use: https://gateshell.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://gateshell.com/privacy
PromptSpend
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Know the tab before you build. PromptSpend turns a representative AI conversation into an understandable cost forecast before the first production invoice arrives. Paste sample text or enter known token counts, choose your traffic, and see the cost per conversation, day, month, and year. COMPARE THE SAME WORKLOAD Select up to four LLMs and compare their estimated costs side by side. PromptSpend calculates pasted text separately for each model family, ranks the results, and shows the monthly difference from the lowest-cost option. SEE THE FULL COST STORY Explore input, output, prompt-cache writes, long-context tiers, reasoning assumptions, batch discounts, and conversation growth. The Cost Brief, sensitivity lab, and savings playbook help explain what changes the number and which levers may reduce it. CURRENT PRICES WITH EVIDENCE PromptSpend downloads a validated public catalog, shows when sources were checked, flags disagreements for review, and refuses to hide an expired offline cache behind a reassuring number. Open the evidence and public sync status whenever you want to inspect the work. OPTIONAL PRICE ALERTS Create and manage an email alert for price changes without creating an account. Your email address and alert choices are sent only when you opt in, and every alert includes a way to unsubscribe. Native push notifications are not part of this release. SHARE THE COST STORY Create a readable estimate, four-model comparison, CSV export, restorable website scenario, or Estimate Receipt. Shared results contain derived counts, assumptions, costs, and source dates—not your pasted prompt text. AUDIT AN EXISTING CONVERSATION PromptSpend Receipt provides visible instructions to send in your AI conversation. Import the assistant's structured result, review its estimates and limitations, and share an image or readable text. Imported results are processed locally and cleared when you leave the Receipt screen. LEARN AS YOU GO Short guides explain tokenization, context growth, caching, pricing provenance, and the limits of any estimate. Global Search and a guided tour make deep features easy to find. MAKE IT YOURS Choose system, light, or dark appearance; four accessible accent colors; and cool or warm canvas styles. The Market Pulse ticker can be paused and respects Reduce Motion. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Pasted text is processed on your device and is not uploaded or saved by PromptSpend. There is no native account, advertising SDK, behavioral analytics, cross-app tracking, or tracking identifier. Saved scenarios and appearance settings stay on your device. Optional alerts transmit only the email address and choices you submit for that feature. PromptSpend estimates published API charges from the workload and assumptions you provide. Separately billed cache-storage time is disclosed but excluded unless a retention duration is known. Actual bills, model quality, latency, availability, regional pricing, negotiated rates, and provider behavior can vary. Validate a representative workload before making a production decision.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PromptSpend at none against GateShell's 2. PromptSpend also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 5 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. GateShell sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. PromptSpend asks for nothing beyond the download.
GateShell ships an update every 5 weeks, PromptSpend every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GateShell | PromptSpend |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | HEFTY INNOVATIONS | Crestwood Holdings Management LLC |
In-app purchases
GateShell
- GateShell Pro Monthly$0.991 Month
- GateShell Pro Yearly$9.991 Year
PromptSpend
No in-app purchases









