Kuberfy vs Clayshell
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Kuberfy
Control your self-hosted PaaS server remotely. Monitor applications, check system health, and manage your account directly from your mobile device. It offers a lightweight, self-hosted alternative to popular cloud platforms.
- Remote server management
- App and project monitoring
- System health checks
- Resource usage monitoring
- Live traffic inspection
- Account management
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Manage your self-hosted Kuberfy server from anywhere. Monitor deployed apps and projects, check system health and resource usage, inspect live traffic, and manage your account — all from your phone. Kuberfy is the lightest self-hosted alternative to Heroku, Vercel, and Netlify, running on your own infrastructure with Docker Swarm. This app connects directly to the Kuberfy server you control; no data passes through any third-party service.
Clayshell
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Clayshell is an SSH client and server manager for people who run their own servers. Add a server once, then do the daily work without leaving the app. NEW IN 1.1 • Test connection: check the address, user and key before you save a server. If it fails, Clayshell says why: the name was not found, nothing is listening on that port, no answer, not an SSH server, or the key needs its passphrase. • On the Mac, Clayshell is now a desktop: Terminal, Files, Monitor and PM2 open as windows inside it, with a dock and a top bar that shows the server you are working on. Press Command-K to switch servers. Liquid Glass on macOS 26. • Files: choose several files and folders at once, download several in one go, and delete a folder with everything inside it. Clayshell refuses to delete the root, top-level system folders and your home folder. TERMINAL A real terminal with full colour, in tabs. Your own shell, as many sessions as you need. FILES Browse the server over SFTP. Upload, download, rename, delete, make files and folders, and preview text files. EDITOR WITH A BACKUP Open a file on the server, edit it and save. Before every save the previous version is kept next to it as a .bak file, and one tap puts it back. If the file changed on the server while you were editing, Clayshell tells you instead of overwriting it. MONITOR CPU, memory, disk, load, uptime and the busiest processes, live, for Linux servers. PM2 See your PM2 processes, start, stop and restart them, and follow their logs. ALERTS Be told when a disk fills up, when CPU or memory stays high, when a PM2 process goes down, or when a server cannot be reached. On the Mac, Clayshell can watch your servers from the menu bar. A small script can also be installed on the server itself, so alerts reach Telegram, ntfy or a webhook even when your devices are asleep. MORE SSH Jump hosts. Import from your SSH config. Local port forwarding. Ed25519 and RSA keys, or a password. YOUR DATA STAYS WITH YOU • No account, no analytics, no tracking. Nothing is sent to us. • Passwords and keys are kept in the Keychain on your device. • Clayshell only talks to the servers you add. • It asks before trusting a new server, and stops if a server's key changes. • An optional lock with Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode. Clayshell has a day and a night look, and works on Mac and iPhone. Monitoring needs a Linux server. The PM2 screen needs PM2 on the server. Server alerts need curl and cron on the server. An RSA key protected by a passphrase is not supported yet.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Kuberfy at 16.4 against Clayshell's 18.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.
| Parameter | Kuberfy | Clayshell |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | — | Every 5 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +4 |
| Developer | FasteryDev, LLC | Arvind Kumar |
In-app purchases
Kuberfy
No in-app purchases
Clayshell
No in-app purchases









