Comparison

Shellter vs CodeSSH

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

Head to head
About

Shellter

A local-only client for SSH, SFTP, and FTP connections. It offers a real terminal experience, secure file management, and robust host key verification, all without requiring accounts or sending user data.

Highlights
  • Real interactive terminal with xterm rendering
  • SFTP/FTP file browsing, upload, and download
  • Host key pinning for secure SSH connections
  • Secure storage of passwords and private keys
  • Local-only operation with no account needed
Features
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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.

About

CodeSSH

Features
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CodeSSH is a native code editor and IDE for iPhone and iPad. A Git engine,SSH and SFTP, four languages that run on the device, an assistant that can work entirely offline, and an issue tracker built into the project. EDITOR - Multiple cursors, code folding, sticky scroll, inlay hints, rainbow brackets and typewriter mode - Find and replace with regular expressions; project-wide search with a glob filter and multi-file replace - Rename a symbol across the project, sort imports, format and clean up - Around sixty line operations โ€” sorting, case conversion, alignment, reflow, dedupe - Split editor, Zen Mode, saved tab sessions, draft recovery after a crash - HEX editor. RUNS ON THE DEVICE - JavaScript, Swift, Python and Java all execute locally. No network, no server - Run console with stdin, history, benchmarking and saved expected output - Jupyter notebooks against a persistent Python session - Live web preview over a local server, with an option to serve to your Wi-Fi SOURCE CONTROL - A real embedded Git engine, not a wrapper around a hosted API - Stage by file, by hunk, or by a single line - Merge, rebase including interactive, cherry-pick, revert, stash and tags - History with search, commit graph, blame in the gutter and bisect - Pull requests and issues on GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket - Credential profiles with tokens or SSH keys, every secret in the Keychain CONNECTIONS AND TERMINAL - SSH, SFTP, Telnet and WebDAV - A full terminal emulator with true colour, tabs, split panes and mouse tracking - Password, SSH key, saved identity and keyboard-interactive two-factor auth - Host keys pinned on first use, with a review screen when one changes - Jump hosts, proxies, port forwarding including SOCKS5 - SFTP browser with transfers, permissions, checksums and Deploy Project Here - API request composer with collections, environments, GraphQL and cURL import ASSISTANT - Run a model on your own hardware. Or connect any endpoint, including local servers - Nothing leaves the device for a local model. AUTO-BUILD AGENT - Give it a goal. It plans a backlog from your file tree, then works task by task - Edits files in place, verifies, and commits each step so any of them can be reverted - Round limits, spend caps and a thermal pause keep a run bounded - The plan survives a relaunch, and runs continue while you are in another app ISSUES - A tracker inside the project, from Triage through to Done - Cycles with burn-up and velocity, milestones, SLAs, sub-issues and a roadmap - Round-trips to GitHub, starts a branch from an issue, closes when the PR merges - Reachable from Spotlight, from the terminal and from the assistant MADE YOURS - 300+ built-in themes, or import a .tmTheme, .xccolortheme or JSON theme - Pair a light theme with a dark one and follow the system between them - Any font you own, with a programming-ligatures toggle - Fully remappable shortcuts with CodeSSH, Xcode-like and VS Code-like presets BUILT FOR THE SYSTEM - Multiple windows on iPad for two files side by side. Split View for iPad and iPhone. - 17 App Intents for Siri and Shortcuts, quick actions and deep links - Face ID lock and an encrypted vault for connections, identities and keys - VoiceOver with spoken indentation, Dynamic Type override, Reduce Motion PRIVACY Everything runs on your device or on a host you configured yourself. Privacy Policy and Terms of Service: https://www.codessh.com/privacy https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Shellter4 screens
CodeSSH4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Shellter at 15.0 against CodeSSH's 26.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

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.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 6 level
Shellter versus CodeSSH: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShellterCodeSSH
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews100.0% of reviewsโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeโ€”
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 โ€” better26.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size21 MB273 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBlocify LLCBlakzero Oy

In-app purchases

None

Shellter

No in-app purchases

None

CodeSSH

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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