Shebang: SSH Terminal, SFTP

Your servers, from your pocket. A real SSH terminal with full color, SFTP, and an on-device AI that turns plain English into the command you actually meant.

A real SSH terminal for iPhone and iPad.

Shebang speaks the actual SSH protocol — no relay servers, no accounts, no middleman. Your phone connects straight to your machine, and nothing about that connection ever touches us.

FULL TERMINAL, NOT A COMMAND BOX A complete xterm-256color terminal, so the tools you already use look right: vim, htop, tmux, nano, less, systemctl, colored ls output and progress bars all render properly. 10,000 lines of scrollback, pinch to resize, and a key accessory row that puts esc, ctrl, tab, arrows, pipe and the F-keys one tap away instead of buried behind three keyboard layers.

AI THAT KNOWS WHAT YOU MEANT Describe what you want and get the command back. Paste an error and get an explanation. Paste 200 lines of log and get a summary. It runs entirely on your device — your commands, your output and your server names are never sent anywhere.

Nothing runs on its own: a suggested command lands at your prompt for you to read and press Return yourself.

SFTP, BUILT IN Browse the remote filesystem, create folders, download a file to your phone or upload one from it — over the same connection, no second tool.

CONNECTIONS THAT STAY PUT Save as many hosts as you like. Passwords go in the iOS Keychain, encrypted and never leaving the device. Host keys are pinned on first connect, and if one ever changes you get a real warning with both fingerprints instead of a silent reconnect.

Drop a Quick Connect widget on your Home Screen and a saved host is one tap from the lock screen.

MADE FOR THE iPAD TOO Proper split view: your connection list beside a full-size terminal, with hardware keyboard support.

FIVE THEMES Default Dark, Solarized Dark, Solarized Light, Dracula and Nord, with an adjustable font size and a live preview.

ALSO INSIDE • Searchable command history across sessions • Dictation, for when typing flags on glass is miserable • Automatic reconnect when the network drops or you switch apps • Speak a command instead of typing it

PRIVACY No accounts. No analytics. No ads. No servers of ours in the path. The app collects nothing, and the AI features run on-device.

REQUIREMENTS Runs on iOS 18 and later. The AI features need iOS 26 and an Apple Intelligence-capable device; everything else works without them.