Comparison

Knockbox vs Easy SSH

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

Head to head
About

Knockbox

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Knock once, and your phone buzzes. Knockbox turns one HTTP request into a push notification on your iPhone. Anything that can send a request can reach you: a deploy script, a cron job, a monitoring check, a CI pipeline, or a coding agent that has just finished a long task. If it needs your go-ahead before continuing, it can wait for your answer. curl -d "Build finished" https://your-server/api/v1/send/YOUR_TOKEN THE SERVER IS YOURS Knockbox is the client for a server you control. The server is open source and runs on a VPS, a NAS, or a Raspberry Pi at home. It holds its own Apple push key, so a notification goes from your machine to Apple and then to your phone, without passing through anyone in between. If you would rather not run anything, open knockbox.miramiao.com on your iPhone and you are connected — no sign-up, no password. WHAT A MESSAGE CAN CARRY • A Markdown body with headings, lists, links and syntax-highlighted code. • Images, shown in the notification and kept with the message. • Long text. The body is fetched as the notification lands rather than packed into it, so there is no length limit to work around. • A title, a channel, and an interruption level: quiet, normal, or time sensitive when it has to break through Focus. REPLIES • The sender can attach a set of options, or allow a free-text answer. • Answer from the message itself. Your server posts the reply back to the address the sender gave, signed, and the sender takes it from there. • The sender can set a deadline. After it passes the message reads "Reply window closed" and the server stops accepting — you are never left thinking an answer went through. • A message is answered once, and the answer is the same across your devices. CHANNELS • One token per channel, so a noisy monitor and a personal reminder stay apart. • Muting a channel truly stops it: the mute lives on the server, so nothing is sent at all. • Search your history, mark as read, delete a message, or clear a channel. Deletions are real, on the device and on the server. MORE THAN ONE DEVICE Pair a second iPhone or iPad from a device that is already connected. Both receive everything and share read state. TRY IT WITHOUT A SERVER Demo mode fills the app with example messages and sends a sample notification, so you can see how it works before setting anything up. FREE, AND THAT IS ALL No ads, no analytics, no account with us, no in-app purchase, no subscription. The app is free and the server is open source. Server source code: https://github.com/aichy126/knockbox Public server: https://knockbox.miramiao.com How to send: https://knockbox.miramiao.com/docs Questions: info@miramiao.com

About

Easy SSH

Access your Linux servers' command line securely from your mobile device. Features include tab completion, key-based login, live server monitoring with charts, and pre-made command packs. It prioritizes privacy with no account, tracking, or ads.

Highlights
  • Real terminal with tab completion and history
  • Key-based and password login
  • Host-key pinning for security
  • Live server monitoring with charts
  • 18 ready-made command packs
  • Customizable shortcuts
  • Live sessions with auto-reconnect
Features
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Easy SSH puts your servers' command line in your pocket — securely, in Arabic and English, with no account and no tracking. WHY EASY SSH • A real terminal: Tab completion, Ctrl, Esc and arrow keys, colours, free scrolling through history, search and copy. • Key-based login: generate an ed25519 key inside the app and copy the public key to your server in one step, or import your existing OpenSSH / PEM key. Password login is supported too. • Host-key pinning: the server fingerprint is stored on first connection and checked before every authentication, so nobody can impersonate your server on public Wi-Fi. • Live monitoring with charts: CPU, memory, disk, load, network and top processes, refreshed every few seconds, with a 48-hour history on your phone and the server's own sysstat log when available. • 18 ready-made packs (130 commands), all read-only: server health, Docker, systemd services, network, logs, nginx, PostgreSQL, Git, Redis and more. No pack command deletes data or changes server state. • Your own shortcuts: one-tap buttons for the commands you repeat, with placeholders prompted at run time. • Live sessions: leave the terminal and the session stays connected; automatic reconnect when the network drops. • A complete in-app guide: what SSH is, your first connection, keys and fingerprints, security tips and troubleshooting. • Light and dark themes, adjustable font size, full right-to-left support. PRIVACY FIRST No sign-up, no analytics, no ads. Your servers and keys live only in your device's secure storage (Keychain). The only connection the app makes is your own encrypted SSH session to your server. WHO IS IT FOR System administrators, DevOps engineers, developers and site owners who want to check a Linux server, read a log or run a command while away from their desk — on a VPS, a cloud instance, a Raspberry Pi or a home lab. Support: subs@origami.sa

Screenshots

Knockbox4 screens
Easy SSH4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Knockbox versus Easy SSH: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKnockboxEasy SSH
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyDaily—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer苗 苗Yasse Baghdadi

In-app purchases

None

Knockbox

No in-app purchases

None

Easy SSH

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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