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 an SSH client built for engineers who care about their terminal sessions. With MTRoam, your sessions stop being tied to the device you connected from. Start a session on your iPhone over cellular, walk into the office, pick the same session up on your laptop. Your scrollback, your environment, your half-finished prompt - exactly where you left it.

BUILT-IN TAILSCALE WITH MULTIPLE TAILNETS meshTerm has its own Tailscale networking stack - runs entirely in-app, no separate Tailscale app required, and no conflict with any other VPN you have running. Add an auth key and your iPhone joins your Tailnet over WireGuard. SSH, SFTP, and mtRoam all route through the encrypted tunnel natively. Browse devices and add them as hosts in one tap. Tailscale SSH nodes connect with no passwords or keys. Multiple Tailscale profiles let you switch between work and personal tailnets, or across client environments - each with its own auth key and API token. Bind hosts to a specific profile so they auto-switch on connect.

ROAM - RESILIENT CONNECTIONS & PERSISTENT SESSIONS ACROSS DEVICES mtRoam runs as a small open-source daemon on your own server (Linux, macOS, FreeBSD). meshTerm can install it for you in one tap - signed binaries verified on-device with Apple's CryptoKit before any upload. Once installed, your shell lives on your server instead of inside the app. Connect over QUIC for the fastest path, an SSH tunnel when UDP is blocked, or directly across your Tailnet - every path reaches the same persistent sessions. Backgrounding, dropping cellular, switching devices - none of it kills your session owning to the Halo a persistent ring buffer which even survives daemon updates and restarts.

MULTI-CLIENT, NAMED SESSIONS Open named sessions per host - dev, logs, tests, tail-deploy. Attach exclusively or read-only-watch a session someone else is driving. Per-host idle timeouts from 1 hour to Never. A Sessions tab keeps every live session one tap away.

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 file, so what you see is what the shell actually ran.

A KEYBOARD BUILT FOR THE TERMINAL Three keyboard modes: standard iOS keyboard with an accessory bar; a full secondary keyboard with two function rows; a minimized bar that gives the screen back to the terminal. Switch with one tap. Customize the top row and the minimized row. Left-Handed Chrome mirrors bottom-edge UI to the leading side. Assign actions to volume buttons - arrows, Backspace, Ctrl-C, keyboard show/hide - with short-press and long-press slots.

SFTP FILE BROWSER Browse, upload, download, rename, and delete files on any server. iOS Files integration means dragging documents from iCloud Drive onto a remote host works like it would on a laptop.

SCROLLBACK SEARCH, THEMES, TAGS Press Cmd+F or use the more button to search scrollback with a running match count. Eight curated themes. Tag hosts and filter with chip tabs.

SNIPPETS, MACROS, SECRETS A searchable Snippet Vault. A one-tap macro bar above the keyboard. Secret macros and snippets back values with the iOS Keychain, optionally gated by Face ID - useful for sudo passwords and API tokens.

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 with one tap.

TUI DETECTION A floating pill detects Claude Code, Codex CLI, and other full- screen TUIs, and offers a one-tap jump back to the live prompt when you've scrolled away.

PRIVACY BY DESIGN No analytics, no telemetry, no tracking SDKs. SSH credentials and keys live in the iOS Keychain - hardware-encrypted and device-only. The MTRoam daemon source is public - runs on hardware you own, talks only to you.

meshTerm Pro Every feature works in the free tier. Pro lifts the 1-host and 1-session limit to unlimited.