ShadowTerm ssh & mosh Terminal

Name: ShadowTerm ssh & mosh Terminal
Rating: 4.3 (17 reviews)
Author: Carlos Savcic

Pro SSH Herdr & tmux enhanced

Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

17 Ratings
Age Rating

4+
Years
Category

Developer Tools
Developer

Carlos Savcic
Language

EN
English
Size

142.3
MB

ShadowTerm is a full-featured SSH and Mosh terminal for iPhone and iPad. Keep tmux and herdr alive across networks, with a desktop-quality terminal and keyboards built for the job. KEY FEATURES Connections that survive - SSH with passwords and keys. Secure Enclave keys sign with Face ID and never leave the device - Jump hosts (Connect Via), one hop. Mosh does not run through a jump - Mosh survives network drops, backgrounding, and sleep - Local and remote port forwarding. SSH agent forwarding (SSH only), confirmed each use - Auto-connect and geofence auto-connect. Background monitoring, notifications, and Live Activities - Handoff a saved host to another Apple device - Picture in Picture. Stopping it does not disconnect Terminal - 256-color support - tmux, GNU screen, and herdr, detected automatically - Mouse mode: tap to left-click, long-press to right-click, scroll to navigate. Mouse off: long-press or double-tap to paste - Tap a path to open that file. A wrapped link opens as one URL - Multi-window on iPad: Terminal, Files, Monitor, Markdown, or Text Editor - App themes include Sci-Fi, Glass, Midnight, Matrix, and more. Glass chrome is transparent. The terminal stays solid - Terminal colors include Dracula, Nord, Gruvbox, Solarized, Monokai, and others - Pinch-to-zoom. Disconnect All from Control Center Keyboards - 15 layouts: Tmux, Herdr, Screen, Files, OpenCode, Productivity, DevOps, Git, Kubernetes, Python, Node.js, macOS, Database, Security, Terminal Classic - Editable keys, snippets, and sticky modifiers. Auto-switch per process. Mic voice entry Files - SFTP with multi-select and bulk copy, move, and delete. Paste a screenshot or file to upload it - Dual-pane copy between hosts, and Files app access (Premium) - Editor with syntax highlighting. Markdown preview, including Mermaid. Startup snippets per host AI, on your keys - OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Grok, Ollama, OpenRouter, or any OpenAI-compatible server - Blocks fork bombs, rm -rf /, and similar patterns on the device - Inline assistant in the editor Hermes, T3, and agents - Hermes for your own hermes-webui: sessions, chat, Tasks, Kanban, and skills. Console layout, voice listen, and read-aloud. Scheduled tasks notify you when you are away - T3 for a self-hosted T3 Code server: chat, plan, implement, a branch picker, and photo attachments - AI Agents for herdr and tmux. A pane is a full terminal. Claude Code, questions, and Hermes actions share one approval card. Face ID can be required to approve - Your own ntfy server. Many channels. Link a host to a channel - Approve or deny Claude Code from the phone, including always-allow and accept-edits. Session templates for repeatable workflows - MCP server (Premium): open sessions, run commands, read output, and check hosts. Risky commands stay approval-gated, with per-host always-allow. Siri and Shortcuts. Agents can edit your keyboards over MCP Monitor - CPU, memory, network, filesystem, disk I/O, and Nvidia GPU when present - Ping, port scan, DNS, TLS probe, Wake-on-LAN, Bonjour, and SSH preflight Also - Snippets with variables, including secrets. Widgets for hosts and AI Agents: Lock Screen, StandBy, CarPlay, and Control Center - Searchable Settings. Universal clipboard sync. Demo Privacy Mode scrambles the terminal while you record. Face ID to turn it off - iCloud sync for machines, identities, snippets, port forwards, keyboards, and settings. Credentials in the Keychain - Your API keys, or fully local with Ollama. No telemetry, no analytics, no data collection ShadowTerm is built by a developer who lives in tmux on iPad. If mobile SSH apps disconnect, lose your prompt, or feel cramped, this one will feel different. mosh ;) Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://shadowterm.app/privacy

Ratings & Reviews

4.3

out of 5

17 Ratings

Great with a few annoyances
Jan 15
rando78567
Pretty much perfect besides 1: reiteration of the ToS every run, 2: sometimes on a fresh start it will load a blank screen and I’ll have to close and reopen to get it to correctly load, 3: it doesn’t remember selecting custom keyboard after closing the application and starting it again. After opening, you have to go to settings > customize keyboard > custom before connecting to a host every time.All in all these are minor annoyances/bugs, and the application is great with an active developer. My suggestion is adding an option to explicitly agree to the ToS in perpetuity unless it changes, then reiterate. And hopefully fix the other bugs. 👍👍

Developer Response
Thanks for reporting this! We've shipped a fix. Grab the latest version and let us know if everything is working as expected.
Great with a few annoyances
Jan 15
rando78567

Pretty much perfect besides 1: reiteration of the ToS every run, 2: sometimes on a fresh start it will load a blank screen and I’ll have to close and reopen to get it to correctly load, 3: it doesn’t remember selecting custom keyboard after closing the application and starting it again. After opening, you have to go to settings > customize keyboard > custom before connecting to a host every time.All in all these are minor annoyances/bugs, and the application is great with an active developer. My suggestion is adding an option to explicitly agree to the ToS in perpetuity unless it changes, then reiterate. And hopefully fix the other bugs. 👍👍
Developer Response Jun 9
Thanks for reporting this! We've shipped a fix. Grab the latest version and let us know if everything is working as expected.
They RAISED the price while calling it a “launch price” - Deceptive Dark Marketing tactics
Jul 13
PrettyKoolGuy
This app used to be $10 but after an Update they made it “Freemium” which I was initially happy to see but then I saw they TRIPLED the Lifetime price to $30, added an entire yearly subscription $20/year that is somehow “Most popular” even tho it never existed before the update so that’s impossible, and they are acting like the new higher price is the “launch price.”Let me be clear: This app has been out for at least a YEAR. This app did NOT “just launch” so that is a LIE to call $30 a launch price. The current offering is NOT the launch price. The Launch price WAS $10. You, the developers, just tripled the price and you’re LYING about it hoping nobody notices.This is a Dark Marketing tactic. You are outright lying to consumers by pretending this new tripled $30 price point is a somehow a “launch discount” or deal before you raise it AGAIN effectively quadrupling the price to $40. You are also being dishonest acting like the $20/year subscription is “Most Popular” even though you literally just added it so there’s 0% chance it’s most popular.Maybe you thought nobody would notice your sneaky price increases disguised as a discount but nope I did! Try being HONEST with the way you portray your pricing because LYING to consumers has consequences. 🤷‍♂️

Developer Response
Thanks for writing this. I want to be straight with you.The old $10 was a paid-upfront download. You had to buy the app before you could try it. That price was low on purpose: ShadowTerm was new, unknown, and still rough. A one-time $10 made sense when the app was finding its feet.It’s in a different place now. The terminal is reliable, it’s been through a lot of real use, and the work to keep it that way is ongoing (iOS changes, SSH, sync, new features). In 3.7 we made the app free to download: full terminal, one saved host, no time limit. Premium is optional and covers the extra features (unlimited hosts, SFTP, monitoring, AI helper, sync, and so on).If you bought ShadowTerm before this change, you already have every premium feature for life. Restore Purchases if anything looks locked. You will not be asked to pay again.You’re right that “launch price” was a bad label. The app has been out for a long time. $29.99 is the current lifetime price for the new premium unlock, not a launch discount on a new app. I’ll take that wording off. “Most Popular” on the yearly plan is also just a highlight, not a claim about sales. I’ll remove that too.If you want lifetime at the old-school one-time price, use code AIHACKER in the app (Paywall or Settings → Redeem Code). That unlocks Lifetime for $19.99.If you already paid under the old model and something is wrong, email me from Settings → Support and I’ll fix it personally.
They RAISED the price while calling it a “launch price” - Deceptive Dark Marketing tactics
Jul 13
PrettyKoolGuy

This app used to be $10 but after an Update they made it “Freemium” which I was initially happy to see but then I saw they TRIPLED the Lifetime price to $30, added an entire yearly subscription $20/year that is somehow “Most popular” even tho it never existed before the update so that’s impossible, and they are acting like the new higher price is the “launch price.”Let me be clear: This app has been out for at least a YEAR. This app did NOT “just launch” so that is a LIE to call $30 a launch price. The current offering is NOT the launch price. The Launch price WAS $10. You, the developers, just tripled the price and you’re LYING about it hoping nobody notices.This is a Dark Marketing tactic. You are outright lying to consumers by pretending this new tripled $30 price point is a somehow a “launch discount” or deal before you raise it AGAIN effectively quadrupling the price to $40. You are also being dishonest acting like the $20/year subscription is “Most Popular” even though you literally just added it so there’s 0% chance it’s most popular.Maybe you thought nobody would notice your sneaky price increases disguised as a discount but nope I did! Try being HONEST with the way you portray your pricing because LYING to consumers has consequences. 🤷‍♂️
Developer Response Aug 13
Thanks for writing this. I want to be straight with you.The old $10 was a paid-upfront download. You had to buy the app before you could try it. That price was low on purpose: ShadowTerm was new, unknown, and still rough. A one-time $10 made sense when the app was finding its feet.It’s in a different place now. The terminal is reliable, it’s been through a lot of real use, and the work to keep it that way is ongoing (iOS changes, SSH, sync, new features). In 3.7 we made the app free to download: full terminal, one saved host, no time limit. Premium is optional and covers the extra features (unlimited hosts, SFTP, monitoring, AI helper, sync, and so on).If you bought ShadowTerm before this change, you already have every premium feature for life. Restore Purchases if anything looks locked. You will not be asked to pay again.You’re right that “launch price” was a bad label. The app has been out for a long time. $29.99 is the current lifetime price for the new premium unlock, not a launch discount on a new app. I’ll take that wording off. “Most Popular” on the yearly plan is also just a highlight, not a claim about sales. I’ll remove that too.If you want lifetime at the old-school one-time price, use code AIHACKER in the app (Paywall or Settings → Redeem Code). That unlocks Lifetime for $19.99.If you already paid under the old model and something is wrong, email me from Settings → Support and I’ll fix it personally.
No subscription
08/16/2025
VincentA-123
Nice to see an app that you can pay for once. Wish the AppStore offered paid upgrade options so the user was in control of when they felt an upgrade was warranted. Especially for something I’ll infrequently use. $70/yr for an ssh client is just insane.

Developer Response
Thank you for been one of our early adopters
No subscription
08/16/2025
VincentA-123

Nice to see an app that you can pay for once. Wish the AppStore offered paid upgrade options so the user was in control of when they felt an upgrade was warranted. Especially for something I’ll infrequently use. $70/yr for an ssh client is just insane.
Developer Response Jun 9
Thank you for been one of our early adopters
Awesome
09/08/2025
Robbies7897
Respect for not requiring a subscription or having a crazy price. The application works very well and is super convenient. Easily worth the money, especially since no extra data is being collected!
Awesome
09/08/2025
Robbies7897

Respect for not requiring a subscription or having a crazy price. The application works very well and is super convenient. Easily worth the money, especially since no extra data is being collected!

Sidebar has Show > Details and Group by Model. On iPad, the mic takes a tap. A failed start shows beside the mic. Offline sends sit in Outbox. Color a chat from a long-press. Tap the color to clear it. Hide menu puts the top Hermes menu away. Show menu puts it back. Settings pick the read-aloud engine. MCP Server has a Setup snippet.

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Seller: Carlos Savcic
Size: 142.3 MB
Category: Developer Tools
Compatibility: Requires iOS 26.0 or later.

iPhone
Requires iOS 26.0 or later.

iPad
Requires iPadOS 26.0 or later.

Mac
Requires macOS 26.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.

Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 26.0 or later.

Apple Watch
Requires watchOS 9.0 or later.
Location: This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease device battery life.
Languages: English
Age Rating: 4+

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Ratings & Reviews

Great with a few annoyances

They RAISED the price while calling it a “launch price” - Deceptive Dark Marketing tactics

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