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About SSH Files – Secure ShellFish

Lightning fast SSH terminal with remote file access. No other app fuses your SSH servers and iOS devices as well as Secure ShellFish. Tap Get and see for yourself.

Terminal supports standard text editing gestures for selection, scrolling and copy/paste as well as custom gestures to send arrow keys and tabulator making shell entry and full screen editing with vim or emacs delightful. Bar above the keyboard makes it easy to type special keys and insert snippets.

Select and drag filenames out of the terminal as actual files and drag files from other apps into the terminal to upload. Use built-in tmux support to persist terminal sessions if you lose Internet access, pick existing sessions with thumbnails and Handoff sessions between devices.

Server file system is available in the Files app and recently accessed files and directories are cached to make them available when offline. Use apps like Textastic and iA Writer for a native editing experience working on your remote server files.

Upload files or entire directories from the share sheet with minimal friction as the last destination directory for each kind of file is remembered or automate file transfers in the Shortcuts app.

Connect to your Mac, Synology NAS and any other SSH server or create new Digital Ocean droplets or GitHub Codespaces right from the app.

Secure ShellFish is useful as a free app and paying pro users can disable ads in the terminal, upload through the Files app and configure unlimited number of servers.

What's New in the Latest Version 2024.9

Last updated on Apr 22, 2024

Old Versions

Quick Terminal has been adjusted to make auto complete easier to use.

Support for picking font variants in terminal settings.

Use Command+Shift+[] to switch between terminal tabs. You can still use Command Left/Right to switch.

SSH keys configured to require biometrics authentication work correctly.

Version History

2024.9

Apr 22, 2024

2024.8

Mar 10, 2024

Fix issue where some users had too much space between terminal lines.

2024.7

Mar 2, 2024

Dragging entries from list of Codespaces or Droplets to server list correctly creates configuration.

Configure terminal scrollback from Advanced settings.

Download from Copy/Paste will show download progress when transfer time exceeds half a second.

2024.6

Feb 25, 2024

Copy/Paste menu includes Download choice to download file with the selected filename into a folder of your choice. When filename is shared by several files you pick the correct one from a submenu.

2024.5

Feb 19, 2024

Export of private key no longer requires right clicking Export Public Key button.

2024.4

Feb 15, 2024

Improved import of OpenSSH style private keys where import seemed to work but authentication with key failed. Keys where authentication fails need to be imported again.

2024.3

Feb 8, 2024

Faster authentication for ed25519 keys with a high number of key derivation function (KDF) rounds.

Improvements to font handling to avoid incorrect terminal size for certain fonts.

Rotate your push notification data from (...) in the Shell Integration notification log screen. This can be useful if you accidentally made a .shellfishrc file public. You need to reinstall Shell Integration on servers using 'widget' or 'notify' commands after rotation.

Fix discolouring of certain keyboard keys in terminal after showing settings.

2024.2

Jan 6, 2024

Improvements to terminal autocomplete.

2024.1

Jan 2, 2024

Upgrade to libssh2 1.11.1 to mitigate CVE-2023-48795 "Terrapin Attack"

2023.43

Nov 10, 2023

SSH keys with Touch/Face ID requirement allows device password fallback.

2023.42

Nov 5, 2023

Configure SSH keys to require Face ID or Touch ID before use.

Note that older versions of Secure ShellFish do not support this. If you have iCloud sync of SSH keys enabled, keys requiring Face ID or Touch ID will not work until you update Secure ShellFish on these devices.

Improved error message when connection to server with multiple comma separated addresses failed.

Fix bug where dynamic port forwarding didn't recognise addresses to forward in terminal unless Files location was enabled for server.

2023.41

Oct 24, 2023

Fixes issue renaming files while they are being uploaded.

2023.40

Oct 12, 2023

Fix bug that could prevent Instant Playback from working.

2023.39

Sep 23, 2023

Fix crash that could happen on iPadOS 17 when app enters the background.

2023.38

Sep 18, 2023

Directories with name containing diacritics (accent, umlaut and friends) will now correctly download inside folders marked for offline usage.

2023.37

Sep 4, 2023

Fix crash that could happen when installing Shell Integration.

2023.36

Aug 28, 2023

Help screen can be hidden by long tapping Help from outermost screen.

Snippets support control sequences. Remember that snippets can be activated using dictation, with Apple Pencil scribble and assigned to keyboard bar.

2023.35

Aug 11, 2023

Fix widget refresh when shell has Oh My ZSH powerline prompt.

2023.34

Aug 3, 2023

Last update added the ability to configure custom keys when keyboard bar has extra space assigning entries from Fn keyboard or snippets from context menu. Custom keys now show snippet name.

2023.33

Aug 1, 2023

When keyboard bar is wide enough to fit additional keys you can assign Fn keyboard entries or snippets by long tapping the additional keys.

2023.32

Jul 24, 2023

Improvements to port forwarding where dynamic forwarding would sometimes prevent regular port forwarding from working.

Port forwarding is easier to configure explaining what each port forward does when selected and including a field for naming port forwarding entries.

Downloaded files are no longer moved to trash when deleting instead prompting for immediate deletion.

2023.31

Jul 9, 2023

Last month Secure ShellFish for iOS gained a new Pro feature allowing progressive playback of video and audio files without downloading. This is now available in ShellFish for Mac with Handoff support such that you can start playback on one device and resume playback on the other device.

Long tap media files in the Files app and pick Playback from the context menu.

Learn more about this and other features from the Help screen inside Secure ShellFish.

2023.29

Jun 8, 2023

Notifications sent using the 'notify' command are delivered more efficiently such that Secure ShellFish doesn't have to run in the background to decrypt content.

You need to update Shell Installation for this improvement to take effect.

2023.28

Jun 5, 2023

Adjustments to help screen.

2023.27

Jun 1, 2023

Disable message that shows terminal size changes in Advanced settings.

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