SSH Client Downloads & RevenueSSH Client - Secure ShellFish · App Store
SSH Client - Secure ShellFish is #8 in Developer Tools Grossing in Japan and charting in 14 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperAnders Borum
CategoryDeveloper Tools
PriceFree
Released
Rating★ 4.8 (1.6k)
Version2026.34
Age rating4+
First seen by us
24 Sep 2026
24 Sep 2026Installs (est.)100k+ worldwide
SSH Client - Secure ShellFish update history & changes
Last change · 31 events since 28 Jun 2019Full timeline ↓🚀Now shown next to ShellBean - AI SSH Client, Terminal - SSH Client, Termiux - Modern SSH Client +5 more📈Entered the top 10📦Updated to version 2026.34✏️Added hidden keywords: termix✏️Added hidden keywords: tmux, terminal📈Entered the top 10📦Updated to version 2026.33🆕First spotted by AppInsider🆕Released on the App Store
Full timeline · 31 events
- 🚀SSH Client - Secure ShellFish: now shown next to ShellBean - AI SSH Client, Terminal - SSH Client, Termiux - Modern SSH Client +5 morethe store's “similar apps” for it changed: who it's seen as competing with
- 📈SSH Client - Secure ShellFish entered the top 10Top Grossing · Developer Tools · KR
- 📦SSH Client - Secure ShellFish updated to version 2026.34This version introduces Mosh as an experimental feature. Choose Mosh under Persistence when editing a server to try it. Mosh is designed to keep the terminal connected as you move between Wi-Fi and cellular, through network dropouts and while your iPhone or iPad sleeps, and to show what you type right away on a slow connection. The server needs mosh-server and must accept UDP on ports 60000 to 61000, and ShellFish shows how to install mosh-server if it is missing. If Mosh gives you trouble, switch Persistence back to None or tmux, and feedback on what went wrong is very welcome.
Images sent with the kitty graphics protocol now show in the terminal, from tools like kitten icat and yazi and from Claude Code mods that draw images. Run Install from Shell Integration on the server so Claude Code knows it can draw them. Images do not come through tmux or Mosh.
Creating a security key such as a YubiKey, or signing in with one, now works on iOS 27.
Fixes a new terminal sometimes being only a few rows tall when the keyboard bar is set to Always.
Includes improvements from last version:
ShellFish now supports iPhone Duo. On the wide inner display the terminal toolbar moves to a vertical strip beside the terminal with your tabs, the session picker and the server icon, and the keyboard bar spreads its keys across the wider keyboard. Partly folded like a laptop, the terminal takes the top half and is ready for typing.
Suggest Command turns a plain-language description such as "make a compressed archive of src without the log files" into a shell command, using Apple's Private Cloud Compute model. Long-press the paste button on the keyboard bar or press Cmd-I. The model reads the manual pages on the server you are connected to, so it suggests options that exist there, and the command is only inserted at the prompt when you choose Insert. Requires the latest version of iOS with Apple Intelligence enabled.
Shortcuts actions no longer have to finish within a few seconds. On the latest version of iOS an upload, a download or the listing of a large folder keeps running in the background for as long as it needs, showing how far it has come and offering a stop button if you want to end it early.
A new Control Cloud Server action creates, starts, stops, checks and destroys cloud servers. You pick the region, the plan and the system image the same way you do in the app, and a server that takes minutes to come up reports what it is doing while you wait. The server it gives you back drops straight into the next action, even before you have saved it as a server of your own.
A new Run Command action then runs a command on that server, or on any saved server, without opening the app. Output appears line by line while the command works and the full output is handed back to the rest of your shortcut, so a single shortcut can bring up a server, run a build or a backup on it that takes minutes, and shut it down again.… more - ✏️SSH Client - Secure ShellFish added hidden keywords: termixwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- ✏️SSH Client - Secure ShellFish added hidden keywords: tmux, terminalwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- ✏️SSH Client - Secure ShellFish added hidden keywords: tmuxwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈SSH Client - Secure ShellFish entered the top 10Top Grossing · Developer Tools · FR
- ✏️SSH Client - Secure ShellFish added hidden keywords: securitywords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- ✏️SSH Client - Secure ShellFish added hidden keywords: terminewords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- ✏️SSH Client - Secure ShellFish added hidden keywords: tmuxwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈SSH Client - Secure ShellFish entered the top 10Top Grossing · Developer Tools · AU
- 📈SSH Client - Secure ShellFish entered the top 10Top Grossing · Developer Tools · IN
- ✏️SSH Client - Secure ShellFish added hidden keywords: sftpwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- ✏️SSH Client - Secure ShellFish: new screenshots9 screenshots (was 9) · 15 countries
- ✏️SSH Client - Secure ShellFish: new iPad screenshots· 14 countries
- 📦SSH Client - Secure ShellFish updated to version 2026.33ShellFish now supports iPhone Duo. On the wide inner display the terminal toolbar moves to a vertical strip beside the terminal with your tabs, the session picker and the server icon, and the keyboard bar spreads its keys across the wider keyboard. Partly folded like a laptop, the terminal takes the top half and is ready for typing.
Small layout improvements in terminal settings.
Improvements to OpenCode integration.
Fixes a crash on iOS 18 where the app could run out of memory as soon as a terminal opened.
Includes improvements from last version:
Suggest Command turns a plain-language description such as "make a compressed archive of src without the log files" into a shell command, using Apple's Private Cloud Compute model. Long-press the paste button on the keyboard bar or press Cmd-I. The model reads the manual pages on the server you are connected to, so it suggests options that exist there, and the command is only inserted at the prompt when you choose Insert. Requires the latest version of iOS with Apple Intelligence enabled.
Shortcuts actions no longer have to finish within a few seconds. On the latest version of iOS an upload, a download or the listing of a large folder keeps running in the background for as long as it needs, showing how far it has come and offering a stop button if you want to end it early.
A new Control Cloud Server action creates, starts, stops, checks and destroys cloud servers. You pick the region, the plan and the system image the same way you do in the app, and a server that takes minutes to come up reports what it is doing while you wait. The server it gives you back drops straight into the next action, even before you have saved it as a server of your own.
A new Run Command action then runs a command on that server, or on any saved server, without opening the app. Output appears line by line while the command works and the full output is handed back to the rest of your shortcut, so a single shortcut can bring up a server, run a build or a backup on it that takes minutes, and shut it down again.… more - 📦SSH Client - Secure ShellFish: now updating weekly4 updates in 30 days, after a quiet two months
- ✏️SSH Client - Secure ShellFish added hidden keywords: websshwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- ✏️SSH Client - Secure ShellFish added hidden keywords: tmux, filewords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📦SSH Client - Secure ShellFish updated to version 2026.32Swipe the keyboard bar sideways for word suggestions that better predict what you want to type and can insert two words with one tap.
Fixes an issue in tmux where the last line of output and the prompt after it sometimes did not appear until you pressed a key.
Apps that ask the terminal for its window and character size now get the real sizes, which helps inline images and tools such as tmux.
Includes improvements from last version:
Suggest Command turns a plain-language description such as "make a compressed archive of src without the log files" into a shell command, using Apple's Private Cloud Compute model. Long-press the paste button on the keyboard bar or press Cmd-I. The model reads the manual pages on the server you are connected to, so it suggests options that exist there, and the command is only inserted at the prompt when you choose Insert. Requires the latest version of iOS with Apple Intelligence enabled.
Shortcuts actions no longer have to finish within a few seconds. On the latest version of iOS an upload, a download or the listing of a large folder keeps running in the background for as long as it needs, showing how far it has come and offering a stop button if you want to end it early.
A new Control Cloud Server action creates, starts, stops, checks and destroys cloud servers. You pick the region, the plan and the system image the same way you do in the app, and a server that takes minutes to come up reports what it is doing while you wait. The server it gives you back drops straight into the next action, even before you have saved it as a server of your own.
A new Run Command action then runs a command on that server, or on any saved server, without opening the app. Output appears line by line while the command works and the full output is handed back to the rest of your shortcut, so a single shortcut can bring up a server, run a build or a backup on it that takes minutes, and shut it down again.… more - 📈SSH Client - Secure ShellFish entered the top 10Top Grossing · Developer Tools · ID
- ✏️SSH Client - Secure ShellFish added hidden keywords: tmuxwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈SSH Client - Secure ShellFish entered the top 10 in 2 chartsTop Grossing · Developer Tools · BR · Top Grossing · Developer Tools · IT
- 📦SSH Client - Secure ShellFish updated to version 2026.31Adjustments to how the terminal size is calculated to fix a case where the top of the terminal was hidden.
Snippet that sends ^J no longer acts as Return. Snippets made before this build need the ^J entered again.
Customized keys on the Fn row would sometimes send their keycap text (such as ^A instead of an actual Control-A). This is fixed, but you need to customize the key again for the fix to take effect.
Includes improvements from last update:
Suggest Command turns a plain-language description such as "make a compressed archive of src without the log files" into a shell command, using Apple's Private Cloud Compute model. Long-press the paste button on the keyboard bar or press Cmd-I. The model reads the manual pages on the server you are connected to, so it suggests options that exist there, and the command is only inserted at the prompt when you choose Insert. Requires the latest version of iOS with Apple Intelligence enabled.
Shortcuts actions no longer have to finish within a few seconds. On the latest version of iOS an upload, a download or the listing of a large folder keeps running in the background for as long as it needs, showing how far it has come and offering a stop button if you want to end it early.
A new Control Cloud Server action creates, starts, stops, checks and destroys cloud servers. You pick the region, the plan and the system image the same way you do in the app, and a server that takes minutes to come up reports what it is doing while you wait. The server it gives you back drops straight into the next action, even before you have saved it as a server of your own.
A new Run Command action then runs a command on that server, or on any saved server, without opening the app. Output appears line by line while the command works and the full output is handed back to the rest of your shortcut, so a single shortcut can bring up a server, run a build or a backup on it that takes minutes, and shut it down again.
Inside tmux, lines that had been cleared could stay on screen, so a prompt appeared twice or clear left the old screen in place. The flicker reduction behind this has been undone until it is sorted out.… more - ✏️SSH Client - Secure ShellFish added hidden keywords: tmux, putty, sftp, security +1 morewords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- ✏️SSH Client - Secure ShellFish added hidden keywords: terminalwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈SSH Client - Secure ShellFish entered the top 10 in 2 chartsTop Grossing · Developer Tools · CA · Top Grossing · Developer Tools · GB
- 📈SSH Client - Secure ShellFish entered the top 10Top Grossing · Developer Tools · DE
- 🆕SSH Client - Secure ShellFish first spotted by AppInsider#21 in Top Grossing · Developer Tools · United Kingdom
- 📦SSH Client - Secure ShellFish version 2026.30No release notes
- 🆕SSH Client - Secure ShellFish released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Rating
4.8 ★
1.6k ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#8
Developer Tools GrossingMeasured
New ratings a week
19
▼ -35% vs the 2 weeks before
Measured
SSH Client - Secure ShellFish on the App Store
App details
App ID
1336634154
Publisher
Anders Borum
On the store since
Jun 2019
7 years on the store
Minimum OS
iOS 17.4+
iPhone XS and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad · Watch
Universal purchase
Content rating
4+
Languages
2
DA EN
Size
138 MB
Also listed in
Productivity
App privacy Measured
SSH Client - Secure ShellFish’s App Store privacy label declares 0 data categories used to track you across other companies’ apps and websites, 0 linked to your identity and 1 collected anonymously.
Used to track you
0
Linked to you
0
Not linked to you
1
Not linked to you
UUsage Data
As declared by the developer on the App Store — Apple requires every app to publish this label. We track changes over time.
SSH Client - Secure ShellFish downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Apple publishes no download counts. App Store downloads come from chart positions and daily rating growth per country, calibrated on Google Play install counts; lifetime installs from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where SSH Client - Secure ShellFish's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
Retention · share of new users still active
Day 1
Day 7
Day 30
Time spent · per daily user
Average time spent Pro
min a day
Sessions a day Pro
Time per session Pro
min
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Business model: In-app purchase-led
How SSH Client - Secure ShellFish makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
SubscriptionsIn-app purchases
Subscriptions
/mo
of revenue
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | ShellFish Monthly subscription subscription | |
| 2 | ShellFish Lifetime Pro Unlock subscription | |
| 3 | ShellFish Annual subscription subscription |
Hidden keywords
SSH Client - Secure ShellFish shows up in App Store search (US) for 2 words that appear nowhere in its name, subtitle or developer name, so they are almost certainly in its private keyword field, and it ranks in the top 10 for at least one of them.
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Japan | Developer ToolsGrossing | #8 |
 United States | Developer ToolsGrossing | #23 |
 Germany | Developer ToolsGrossing | #12 |
 South Korea | Developer ToolsGrossing | #18 |
 Australia | Developer ToolsGrossing | #15 |
| United States | Developer ToolsFree | #125 |
| United Kingdom | Developer ToolsGrossing | #57 |
| Japan | Developer ToolsFree | #85 |
 China | Developer ToolsGrossing | #99 |
 France | Developer ToolsGrossing | #48 |
 Canada | Developer ToolsGrossing | #40 |
 Brazil | Developer ToolsGrossing | #60 |
| United Kingdom | Developer ToolsFree | #109 |
 Italy | Developer ToolsGrossing | #48 |
| Germany | Developer ToolsFree | #107 |
 India | Developer ToolsGrossing | #71 |
| Australia | Developer ToolsFree | #75 |
| Canada | Developer ToolsFree | #95 |
| France | Developer ToolsFree | #135 |
 Indonesia | Developer ToolsGrossing | #85 |
 United Arab Emirates | Developer ToolsGrossing | #68 |
Apps near SSH Client - Secure ShellFish on the chart
Developer Tools Grossing, around #8.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
4.8 ★
1.6k ratings
Measured
Ratings
1.6k
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
19
▼ -35% vs the 2 weeks before
Written reviews a week
2.5
US App Store
Lifetime rating
4.8★
recent stars not readable yet: new ratings are a tiny share of the total
Recent written reviews
4.8★
people who write skew negative
Review momentum
70/100
faster than 97% of Developer Tools apps
New ratings by country (5)
| Country | New ratings a week | Share | Last 2 weeks vs the 2 before |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 6.2 | 40% | ▼ -31% |
| Germany | 3 | 19% | ▼ -73% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 19% | ▼ -25% |
| Canada | 2 | 13% | ▲ +50% |
| Japan | 1.2 | 8% | – |
App Store ratings in the countries we track, 4-week average.
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about SSH Client - Secure ShellFish
From the 62 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users overwhelmingly praise the app as a reliable and feature-rich SSH client that integrates seamlessly with Apple's ecosystem, particularly highlighting its value for remote work and development on iOS and macOS. While most reviews are positive, a few users report significant input buffer corruption during long sessions and frustration with unclear paywall restrictions on file saving features.
Mostly positive (94% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for its features and content, and being easy to use.
What people like
- Features & content: “Great Option for SSH Sessions”
- Ease of use: “Love the UX, easy to get set up”
- Useful: “Can’t recommend it enough”
- Connection & sync: “best app for connecting to anything running an ssh server on ios”
About SSH Client - Secure ShellFish
Lightning fast SSH terminal with remote file access. No other app fuses your SSH servers and iOS devices as well as Secure ShellFish. Tap Get and see for yourself.
Terminal supports standard text editing gestures for selection, scrolling and copy/paste as well as custom gestures to send arrow keys and tabulator making shell entry and full screen editing with vim or emacs delightful. Bar above the keyboard makes it easy to type special keys and insert snippets.
Select and drag filenames out of the terminal as actual files and drag files from other apps into the terminal to upload. Use built-in tmux support to persist terminal sessions if you lose Internet access, pick existing sessions with thumbnails and Handoff sessions between devices.
Server file system is available in the Files app and recently accessed files and directories are cached to make them available when offline. Use apps like Textastic and iA Writer for a native editing experience working on your remote server files.
Upload files or entire directories from the share sheet with minimal friction as the last destination directory for each kind of file is remembered or automate file transfers in the Shortcuts app.
Connect to your Mac, Synology NAS and any other SSH server or create new Digital Ocean droplets right from the app.
Secure ShellFish is useful as a free app and paying pro users can disable ads in the terminal, upload through the Files app and configure unlimited number of servers.
Terminal supports standard text editing gestures for selection, scrolling and copy/paste as well as custom gestures to send arrow keys and tabulator making shell entry and full screen editing with vim or emacs delightful. Bar above the keyboard makes it easy to type special keys and insert snippets.
Select and drag filenames out of the terminal as actual files and drag files from other apps into the terminal to upload. Use built-in tmux support to persist terminal sessions if you lose Internet access, pick existing sessions with thumbnails and Handoff sessions between devices.
Server file system is available in the Files app and recently accessed files and directories are cached to make them available when offline. Use apps like Textastic and iA Writer for a native editing experience working on your remote server files.
Upload files or entire directories from the share sheet with minimal friction as the last destination directory for each kind of file is remembered or automate file transfers in the Shortcuts app.
Connect to your Mac, Synology NAS and any other SSH server or create new Digital Ocean droplets right from the app.
Secure ShellFish is useful as a free app and paying pro users can disable ads in the terminal, upload through the Files app and configure unlimited number of servers.
Latest updates
2026.34
This version introduces Mosh as an experimental feature. Choose Mosh under Persistence when editing a server to try it. Mosh is designed to keep the terminal connected as you move between Wi-Fi and cellular, through network dropouts and while your iPhone or iPad sleeps, and to show what you type right away on a slow connection. The server needs mosh-server and must accept UDP on ports 60000 to 61000, and ShellFish shows how to install mosh-server if it is missing. If Mosh gives you trouble, switch Persistence back to None or tmux, and feedback on what went wrong is very welcome.
Images sent with the kitty graphics protocol now show in the terminal, from tools like kitten icat and yazi and from Claude Code mods that draw images. Run Install from Shell Integration on the server so Claude Code knows it can draw them. Images do not come through tmux or Mosh.
Creating a security key such as a YubiKey, or signing in with one, now works on iOS 27.
Fixes a new terminal sometimes being only a few rows tall when the keyboard bar is set to Always.
Includes improvements from last version:
ShellFish now supports iPhone Duo. On the wide inner display the terminal toolbar moves to a vertical strip beside the terminal with your tabs, the session picker and the server icon, and the keyboard bar spreads its keys across the wider keyboard. Partly folded like a laptop, the terminal takes the top half and is ready for typing.
Suggest Command turns a plain-language description such as "make a compressed archive of src without the log files" into a shell command, using Apple's Private Cloud Compute model. Long-press the paste button on the keyboard bar or press Cmd-I. The model reads the manual pages on the server you are connected to, so it suggests options that exist there, and the command is only inserted at the prompt when you choose Insert. Requires the latest version of iOS with Apple Intelligence enabled.
Shortcuts actions no longer have to finish within a few seconds. On the latest version of iOS an upload, a download or the listing of a large folder keeps running in the background for as long as it needs, showing how far it has come and offering a stop button if you want to end it early.
A new Control Cloud Server action creates, starts, stops, checks and destroys cloud servers. You pick the region, the plan and the system image the same way you do in the app, and a server that takes minutes to come up reports what it is doing while you wait. The server it gives you back drops straight into the next action, even before you have saved it as a server of your own.
A new Run Command action then runs a command on that server, or on any saved server, without opening the app. Output appears line by line while the command works and the full output is handed back to the rest of your shortcut, so a single shortcut can bring up a server, run a build or a backup on it that takes minutes, and shut it down again.
2026.33
ShellFish now supports iPhone Duo. On the wide inner display the terminal toolbar moves to a vertical strip beside the terminal with your tabs, the session picker and the server icon, and the keyboard bar spreads its keys across the wider keyboard. Partly folded like a laptop, the terminal takes the top half and is ready for typing.
Small layout improvements in terminal settings.
Improvements to OpenCode integration.
Fixes a crash on iOS 18 where the app could run out of memory as soon as a terminal opened.
Includes improvements from last version:
Suggest Command turns a plain-language description such as "make a compressed archive of src without the log files" into a shell command, using Apple's Private Cloud Compute model. Long-press the paste button on the keyboard bar or press Cmd-I. The model reads the manual pages on the server you are connected to, so it suggests options that exist there, and the command is only inserted at the prompt when you choose Insert. Requires the latest version of iOS with Apple Intelligence enabled.
Shortcuts actions no longer have to finish within a few seconds. On the latest version of iOS an upload, a download or the listing of a large folder keeps running in the background for as long as it needs, showing how far it has come and offering a stop button if you want to end it early.
A new Control Cloud Server action creates, starts, stops, checks and destroys cloud servers. You pick the region, the plan and the system image the same way you do in the app, and a server that takes minutes to come up reports what it is doing while you wait. The server it gives you back drops straight into the next action, even before you have saved it as a server of your own.
A new Run Command action then runs a command on that server, or on any saved server, without opening the app. Output appears line by line while the command works and the full output is handed back to the rest of your shortcut, so a single shortcut can bring up a server, run a build or a backup on it that takes minutes, and shut it down again.
2026.32
Swipe the keyboard bar sideways for word suggestions that better predict what you want to type and can insert two words with one tap.
Fixes an issue in tmux where the last line of output and the prompt after it sometimes did not appear until you pressed a key.
Apps that ask the terminal for its window and character size now get the real sizes, which helps inline images and tools such as tmux.
Includes improvements from last version:
Suggest Command turns a plain-language description such as "make a compressed archive of src without the log files" into a shell command, using Apple's Private Cloud Compute model. Long-press the paste button on the keyboard bar or press Cmd-I. The model reads the manual pages on the server you are connected to, so it suggests options that exist there, and the command is only inserted at the prompt when you choose Insert. Requires the latest version of iOS with Apple Intelligence enabled.
Shortcuts actions no longer have to finish within a few seconds. On the latest version of iOS an upload, a download or the listing of a large folder keeps running in the background for as long as it needs, showing how far it has come and offering a stop button if you want to end it early.
A new Control Cloud Server action creates, starts, stops, checks and destroys cloud servers. You pick the region, the plan and the system image the same way you do in the app, and a server that takes minutes to come up reports what it is doing while you wait. The server it gives you back drops straight into the next action, even before you have saved it as a server of your own.
A new Run Command action then runs a command on that server, or on any saved server, without opening the app. Output appears line by line while the command works and the full output is handed back to the rest of your shortcut, so a single shortcut can bring up a server, run a build or a backup on it that takes minutes, and shut it down again.
Store changes
What SSH Client - Secure ShellFish changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
New screenshots 
9 screenshots (was 9)
New iPad screenshots
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