SSH App vs Outpost
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SSH App
This open-source application provides a straightforward way to connect to SSH servers. It includes support for `tmux -CC` for enhanced terminal session management.
- Open source
- SSH client
- tmux -CC support
- Simple interface
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A simple open source SSH app. It supports `tmux -CC`.
Outpost
This app provides a precise SSH terminal experience on mobile, ensuring your shell's appearance, including icons and special characters, is rendered correctly. It prioritizes security with iOS Keychain integration and offers features for efficient remote work, such as multiple server connections and a custom keyboard bar.
- Glyph-perfect rendering of terminal characters
- Nerd Font icon and Powerline prompt support
- Secure credential storage with Face ID
- Multiple server connections with scrollback
- Customizable keyboard bar for terminal keys
- Font size, color themes, and cursor customization
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Outpost is an SSH client built for one thing above all: rendering your terminal exactly right. If you've connected to a server from your phone and watched your setup fall apart - broken Powerline segments, missing Nerd Font icons, boxes where emoji should be, mangled box-drawing - Outpost is the fix. It's engineered around glyph correctness, so your shell looks the way it does on your desktop. Glyph-perfect rendering. Nerd Font icons, Powerline prompts, box-drawing, wide and ambiguous-width characters, combining marks, and emoji - all correct. Secure by design. Passwords and imported keys are stored in the iOS Keychain behind Face ID. Or generate a key that never leaves the device's Secure Enclave. Host keys are pinned on first connect, with a hard warning if one ever changes. Built for real work. Keep several servers open at once and switch with a tap - scrollback survives. A keyboard bar with the keys a terminal actually needs. Copy and paste, drag to scroll, and tap-to-click in mouse-aware TUIs. Run your own setup commands automatically on connect. Make it yours. Font size, colour themes, and cursor style. No account, no tracking, nothing to sign up for. Your credentials stay on your device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Outpost at 100% against SSH App's 50%. Outpost also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and update cadence (daily vs weekly). SSH App's advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Outpost holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of SSH App's written reviews are positive against 100% of Outpost's.
SSH App ships an update weekly, Outpost daily. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SSH App | Outpost |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Clarified Labs, Inc. | Mathew Taylor |
Customer experience
SSH App
Outpost
In-app purchases
SSH App
No in-app purchases
Outpost
No in-app purchases
