The iOS SSH client that every other app should have been.
Tired of paying $10/month to SSH into your own server? Sick of keyboards covering your terminal? Done with apps that feel sluggish the moment you start typing? ShellDrop is built for speed. Noticeably faster than Termius, Blink, or anything else on the App Store. Free. No subscription. No paywall.
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One tap to dismiss, one tap to bring it back. Terminal content resizes dynamically. No more typing blind because the keyboard covers your last 10 lines of output.
Single-finger scroll through tmux history. No copy-mode workarounds, no arrow key fumbling. Just swipe up, see your output. The way it should work on a touch screen.
Open connections to different servers in tabs. Switch between them without dropping sessions. Rename tabs to keep track. Detach from tmux with one button.
Background persistence keeps your SSH connection open when you switch apps. No more reconnecting every time you check a message and come back.
Connections and credentials sync via iCloud. Set up on your iPhone, already there on your iPad. No vendor account, no third-party cloud. Just Apple's own sync.
Esc, Ctrl-C, arrow keys, tmux detach. All the keys iOS keyboards don't have, in a scrollable toolbar that's always there. Not buried in a submenu.
Pure Swift SSH stack with zero bloat. No Electron, no web views, no abstraction layers. Direct connection to your server with rendering that keeps up with your output. Noticeably faster than anything else on the App Store.
Why ShellDrop exists
They give you seven days to get comfortable. You set up your connections, learn the workflow, get it into your routine. Then the trial ends and features you were using yesterday are locked behind $10/month. SFTP, port forwarding, basic functionality you already configured. Gone.
Launched as a one-time purchase. Moved to $20/year subscription. Existing paid users locked out. App Store rating dropped to 3.09 stars. Reviews filled with "scam" and "fraud."
Keyboards covering terminal output. No Esc or Ctrl keys. Sessions killed the moment you background the app. tmux scroll that doesn't work on touch screens. These aren't edge cases. They're the daily experience.
Built specifically for developers running AI-assisted coding environments from the terminal. If you're using Claude Code, Codex, or any agent that lives in a tmux session, ShellDrop lets you monitor, interact, and manage it from your phone or iPad. Optimised for both iPhone and iPad.