meshTerm SSH FTP via Tailscale

Persistent SSH Terminal. Connect to multiple Tailnets, SSH or QUIC. Roam from cellular, to WiFi - your phone may die but your shell survives with persistent scrollback.

meshTerm is a fast, private SSH and SFTP client for engineers, optimised for Claude Code and CODEX with full screen TUI and agent detection, its own built-in Tailscale, a keyboard built for the command line, and persistent terminal sessions that can follow you from phone to laptop.

Start a session on your iPhone over cellular, walk into the office, and pick the same session up on your laptop - scrollback, environment, and half-finished prompt exactly where you left it.

Built-in Tailscale, multiple tailnets meshTerm has its own Tailscale stack - it runs entirely in-app, with no separate Tailscale app required and no conflict with any other VPN you're running. Sign in to your Tailscale account or optionally add an auth key and your device joins your tailnet over WireGuard. SSH, FTP all route through the encrypted tunnel natively. Browse devices and add them as hosts in one tap. Multiple profiles let you switch between work and personal tailnets - or across client environments - bind a host to a profile so it auto-switches on connect.

Multi-client named sessions Open named sessions per host - dev, logs, tests, tail-deploy. Add, rename or prune sessions via tmux or mtroamd. Attach exclusively, or read-only to watch a session someone else is driving. Per-host idle timeouts from one hour to never. A Sessions tab keeps every live session one tap away.

Sessions that survive anything Out of the box meshTerm is tmux-aware, so you get solid reconnect with nothing extra to install. To make your sessions truly first class, add you can choose mtroamd - a small open-source service for your own server (Linux, macOS, FreeBSD). Install it from apt, dnf, apk, Nix, via homebrew or the AUR - or install to any distro in one tap from the app (signed binaries verified on-device with CryptoKit, removable just as easily. Background the app, lose cellular, switch devices - none of it ends your session, thanks to a persistent ring buffer that survives even service updates and restarts.

Privacy by design No analytics, no telemetry, no tracking SDKs. SSH credentials and keys live in the iOS Keychain, hardware-encrypted. mtroamd is open source, runs on hardware you own, and talks only to you - nothing routes through us.

A keyboard built for the terminal Three keyboard modes: the standard iOS keyboard with an accessory bar; a full secondary keyboard with two function rows; and a minimized bar that gives the screen back to the terminal. Switch with one tap, and customize the top row and the minimized row. Left-handed chrome mirrors the bottom-edge UI to the leading side. Assign actions to the volume buttons - arrows, Backspace, Ctrl-C, show/hide keyboard — with separate short-press and long-press slots.

Predictive overlay A suggestion strip above the keyboard shows matching commands from your remote shell history as you type - tap to commit. History is pulled live from the host's own shell history, so what you see is what the shell actually ran.

SFTP file browser Browse, upload, download, rename, and delete files on any server.

SSH key management Generate Ed25519 or ECDSA keys on-device. Import passphrase-protected keys - decrypted on import, stored in the Keychain. Install public keys on a host in one tap.

Snippets, macros, and secrets A searchable Snippet Vault and a one-tap macro bar above the keyboard. Secret macros and snippets back their values with the iOS Keychain, optionally gated by Face ID - handy for sudo passwords and API tokens.

iCloud Sync - your setup on every device (Pro) Turn it on once and your hosts, known-host trust (TOFU), SSH key metadata, macros, snippets and folders, Tailscale profiles, session tags, and preferences stay in sync across your devices. The sensitive parts - private-key material and passwords - are stored in iCloud Keychain with end-to-end encryption.

meshTerm Pro Every feature works in the free tier. Pro lifts the 1-host and 1-session limits to unlimited and adds iCloud & Keychain Sync.