LexShell

>_ SSH in your pocket

A shell of a good time.

A real terminal for your iPhone & iPad

May your packets be swift and your latency low.

Download on theApp Store

$man lexshell

Your Mac, your servers, your Raspberry Pi — a full SSH terminal, from anywhere your iPhone or iPad goes.

A real terminal

Not a toy. A proper SSH client that keeps up with vim, htop, tmux, tail -f, and whatever else you throw at it.

Finds your machines

LexShell spots the SSH hosts already on your network — your Mac, your Pi, that router you forgot about — and connects with a tap.

Every host, one tap away

Save your machines with keys or passwords, and hop back in instantly. Tabs keep multiple live connections going at once. Easily reconnect to networks you frequently access from a given location.

Keys that iOS's keyboard forgot

Esc, Tab, arrows, and real Ctrl combos — ^C, ^D, ^Z, ^L — sit right above the keyboard on iPhone and iPad, where your fingers expect them.

Delicious themes

Squid Ink, Grape Soda, Sunny-Side Up, Glowworm, Tide Pool… pick a look for every mood, or build your own.

No nonsense

No account. No analytics. No subscription. Your connections go straight from your device to your servers — nobody in between.

$ls screenshots/

Saved hosts, live connections, and a theme for every hour of the day.

LexShell home screen on iPad showing saved hosts and SSH servers discovered on the local network — Saved hosts up top — plus every SSH machine **on your network**.

LexShell terminal on iPad in the dark blue Squid Ink theme with three connection tabs open — **Squid Ink** — dark, inky, contemplative.

LexShell terminal on iPad in the purple-and-pink Grape Soda theme — **Grape Soda** — purple, moody, elegant.

LexShell terminal on iPad in the light Sunny-Side Up theme on a warm paper background — **Sunny-Side Up** — warm, sepia, oh man I am bad at writing these descriptions.

LexShell terminal on iPad in the green-on-black Glowworm theme — **Glowworm** — green phosphor, like the terminals of yore.

LexShell color scheme picker on iPad showing live previews of Squid Ink, Tide Pool, Grape Soda, Sunny-Side Up, Glowworm, and Sugar Rush themes — Pick a scheme with **live previews** — or roll your own.

LexShell home screen on iPhone showing saved hosts and SSH servers discovered on the local network — Saved hosts up top — plus every SSH machine **on your network**.

LexShell terminal on iPhone in the dark blue Squid Ink theme with three connection tabs open — **Squid Ink** — dark, inky, contemplative.

LexShell terminal on iPhone in the purple-and-pink Grape Soda theme — **Grape Soda** — purple, moody, elegant.

LexShell terminal on iPhone in the light Sunny-Side Up theme on a warm paper background — **Sunny-Side Up** — warm, sepia, oh man I am bad at writing these descriptions.

LexShell terminal on iPhone in the green-on-black Glowworm theme — **Glowworm** — green phosphor, like the terminals of yore.

LexShell color scheme picker on iPhone showing live previews of Squid Ink, Tide Pool, Grape Soda, and Sunny-Side Up themes — Pick a scheme with **live previews** — or roll your own.

$cat fine-print.txt

The whole business model: I forgot to have one

[x] Free

[x] Connections go device → your server, directly

[x] Built and shared with love from me to you

[ ] Accounts

[ ] Analytics or tracking

[ ] In-app purchases, subscriptions, or ads

[ ] Your data, going anywhere, ever