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.
Built for AI-Assisted Coding
If you're running OpenClaw, Claude Code, Codex, or any AI coding agent on a headless Mac Mini or home server, ShellDrop is the missing piece. SSH in from your iPhone or iPad, attach to your tmux sessions, scroll through agent output, intervene when you need to. Monitor multiple agents across multiple sessions, all from your pocket.
Built for the headless Mac Mini workflow. Scroll through agent output with one finger. Paste commands. Switch between sessions in tabs.
iPad
Optimised for the 13-inch iPad Pro.
Full terminal with room to work.
Larger tabs, bigger tap targets.
iPhone
Compact terminal that fits your pocket.
Keyboard dismiss with one tap.
Scroll, paste, detach on the go.
Built-in Mosh Support
You're working from your iPad at home. You decide to grab a coffee. With SSH, the connection drops the moment you leave your WiFi. With Mosh, it doesn't. Walk to the car, drive to the coffee shop, connect to their WiFi, open ShellDrop. Your terminal is exactly where you left it. No reconnect. No dropped tmux session. Just pick up and keep working.
SSH
Network changes kill the connection. Switch WiFi, lose your session. Every time.
Mosh
Survives WiFi changes, cellular handoffs, and network interruptions. Your session stays alive.
Mosh uses UDP with intelligent state synchronisation. When your IP changes, the client and server reconnect automatically using a shared encryption key. No SSH timeout. No broken pipe. Works with tmux, works with Claude Code, works everywhere SSH works.
Features
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.
Sound familiar?
7-day trial, then a paywall. Features you were using yesterday, locked. ShellDrop is free. Everything included.
Can't see what you're typing. ShellDrop resizes dynamically. One tap to dismiss, one tap to bring it back.
Check a message, come back, reconnect. Every time. ShellDrop has background persistence and auto-reconnect.
Arrow keys, copy mode, two-finger hacks. ShellDrop: single finger swipe. Just works.
Buried in submenus or missing entirely. ShellDrop has a scrollable toolbar with every key you need. Always visible.
One-time purchases turned into annual fees. ShellDrop is free. No tricks.