Shell Drop: AI Agent Terminal

This app was designed to add every feature that was missing, and fix every bug that had never been fixed, in every one of the top ten iOS terminal apps on the App Store.

ShellDrop is a fast, native terminal for iPhone, iPad and Vision Pro, built for running AI agents: Claude Code, Codex, Grok, Hermes, OpenClaw, opencode, anything that lives in tmux on a Mac mini, VPS or any box you can SSH into.

WORK WITH YOUR AGENTS

• Paste images straight into a session. Copy a screenshot from any app, paste it in the terminal, and your agent reads it.

• Attach files too. Tap the paperclip in the toolbar to pick a file from Files, or a photo or video from your library, and it uploads to the server for your agent to read.

• You choose the upload size limit. Settings goes from 100 MB to 1 GB, and if a file is over, ShellDrop offers to raise it on the spot.

• Tmux aware. Vertical swipe scrolls history, horizontal swipe switches sessions.

• Tab names sync with the real tmux session names automatically.

• Sessions stay alive in the background while you switch apps.

• Agent to clipboard. Ask your agent to write an email, say "copy that to my clipboard", and it lands on your phone ready to paste into your mail app.

• Droplet Visualizer: the feature nobody asked for. See all your sessions from the perspective of an Egyptian god.

BUILT LIKE A REAL TERMINAL

• SSH key authentication. Generate Ed25519 keys or hardware-backed Secure Enclave keys in-app, where the private key never leaves the chip.

• Paste-import your existing OpenSSH keys.

• The keyboard toolbar is yours. Tap and hold to rearrange the keys you use most, and create your own custom Tmux key bindings.

• Sticky ctrl for all of your perverted tmux activities.

• Text selection with a dedicated selection mode, long-press word select, and one-tap links.

• Nerd Fonts. FiraCode and JetBrains Mono render the glyphs nvim and LazyVim need.

• Full screen mode for extra real estate.

• Full iPad support including 13" iPad Pro, plus hardware keyboards.

• iCloud sync keeps saved connections on every device, and you can switch it off in Settings any time. Private keys stay on your device by design.

NO SUBSCRIPTION

Every feature included.

VOICE DROP

Tap the mic on the keyboard toolbar and talk. Your words drop into the prompt at the cursor.

Transcription runs on-device with Apple speech, or through your own Groq API key for whisper-large-v3-turbo. Nothing sends until you hit return.

Prefer a dictation keyboard like Wispr Flow? Works great here too.

PRIVACY

Credentials live in the iOS keychain on your device. There is no account, and no telemetry or analytics are collected.

Terminal traffic goes to your servers over SSH and nowhere else.

Built by an indie developer who runs AI agents every day.