Termius App Reviews

This app is the only good SSH Client for iOS out there in my opinion as it's free version is amazing and has everything you need to start except background but that's fine for me. It works great even without the pro version. Is there an Android version though?

I have been using this app for connecting to my external and remote servers for years now, and they have made many necessary improvements to the app over that time. It has gone from usable to useful. I use it enough, and have enough confidence in their maintenance of the app, that I am now putting in my own requests for improvements and features I'd like to see in future updates. I rarely write reviews for apps or anything else, but when they requested it this time, I am gladly giving them 5 stars and 2 thumbs up. 😀 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 👍👍 😀 🖖 Live long and prosper

Great and awesome app to carry everywhere you want and use it to connect at anytime to your server through the ssh client it provides. No needs to carry your laptop with you all along the day. Just click on the app on you your screen and type some informations and you’re connected to your server as if you were with you laptop. I completely recommend it to everyone who is looking for something small and robust.

I love it!

Not only works from mobile, it’s also neat, better, and more useful on Mac and Windows

I was using the app swimmingly for many months. Then I bought a new iPhone and restored my backup to it. And that’s when it all went south. All my saved sessions seem to have vaporized. Now I’m stuck and I have work to do, but instead I’m battling to understand the bizarre workings of Terminus. Is it a problem with their monetization code? A generic bug in my profile? A purposeful change within their app? Who knows. Nobody needs this. As a software developer, I can’t imagine a reason for this. What a mess. What a waste of my time.

但是太贵了，便宜点就好了，学生党用不起啊

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Host grouping is cool feature. Cool app for shh and easy to use.

It’s awesome to have such small and useful app on iPad. It’d be better if it allows multiple terminals open at once.

Comes installed with powerline fonts. This means powerline arrow and other symbols get rendered correctly, something even MobaXTerm (professional ssh tool on Windows) can’t do correctly.

...and the cost is now $60/yr. So, this has been uninstalled and will never be used again. Don’t ever take affordable software and make it unaffordable, since you’ll lose most of the folks that supported your work from the very beginning. It teases, and then betrays - now at 10x the original price.

There is no place to enter ip address, I don’t understand. Downloaded Shelly and connected immediately, piece of cake.

The free version is excellent, however the cost for the upgraded version is extortionately high. The added features for the common user is not worth this price. Maybe the price is reasonable for a business user managing 100s or 1000s of computers, but for the home user it is not. How about a pricing tier for personal use? My review rating is based on the cost for the upgraded app. For the free app, I’d give it a 4.5. I’d give a 5 is there were an easy to print and/or PDF version of a manual.

Perfect little application!!

You needy children.

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Love the somewhat secret desktop & CLI integration

This used to be $10 a year now they have gotten greedy and want $60 a year for the same features! Looking for alternatives.

i’m new to using the command line and using the shell. i’ve had this app now for awhile and am very happy with what i’ve learned and most importantly i’m really happy with the customer service. Very intuitive and good user interphase. keep up the good work. Richard

I’m trying to enable sudo, specifically sudo -s. After the initial log in and entering the cmd, it prompts for the password, then prompts for the next cmd without me entering anything. Will there be a fix for this? Other than this, it’s been good,

I’d lose my mind if I had to manually type backup file names. Mm-dd-yyyy-user.tar.gz Thanks for having a tab key!

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I have been using this app for 3 years now. It works great as a shell on mobile device. The config options and UI are well designed.

Everything Just Works. Intuitive, and even the free version is extremely powerful. A+!

Most VPS providers already provide IPv6 addresses and most LTE networks lease IPv6 address too. Apps are supposed to prefer IPv6 like they do on Windows and Linux.

Super client, thank you! Would have gladly paid 1x for this but i'm not complaining 😀

Trying to connect to any server - it get’s stuck on “Privacy key not selected” and then crashes

My hand slips to tap the five stars

Not only did this ssh client work the way I expected and wanted from the first time I started using it, it has gotten better. I use this app on both iOS and Android platforms.

Latest updat (Nov 2018) broke it. Can’t connect anymore. No fix for days. They won’t roll back. Poor support.

The old version was working, now it won’t connect to my server and keeps crashing after a while trying to connect.

Easy to use. great app

I truly love the design and experience with this SSH tool, while the stability is soooo awful. I used it on my iPhone7 and new iPad Pro 11’, they both suddenly crashed and quieted unexpectedly from time to time. That’s really terrible and spoiling my work.

Termius is really well done and a joy to use. The amount of customizability that it offers is very impressive and I found it very easy to great around the application and use it the way I wanted to. However, every 5 times or so that I open the application it will just load to a completely blank screen and nothing at all will be displayed. It’s frustrating because I really want to love this app but the level of unreliability makes it impossible for me to rely on it in any production / critical capacity. Others don’t seem to report this issue so it might not be something that happens across the board and hopefully it’ll be resolved in an update.

If I close the app via multitasking, & then reopen it, i always receive a notification that there was also all of my settings are gone.

nov2018- they really need to add the clone server function, it’s not convenient for myself like many admin‘s who may have hundreds of servers to manage , to not have a clone server function (in terms of your server connect settings in info) Aug 28 2018 - i’m not sure why we still can’t clone or copy a host, thus making entry of a similar device easy ( ie a device that might be one IP address/Octet different, but all else is the exact same). There is one “work around” for cloning hosts but it’s a horrible method which requires you to first connect to the host I’m also not sure why we still can’t swipe left/right on hosts to edit or perform other actions. The reason I say why we still can’t, is because in the feedback form within the app users have been requesting these features for several years. ——- Update (feb 20 2018): issues have been fixed by dev. (Dec 18 2017) As of recent update about 2-3 months ago (the update where they added location services background keep alive), nearly 50 of my Terminus bookmarks/devices freeze right after opening their ssh connection, prior to the update, I had not had any issues in 4 years+ of terminus use. I can still connect to the same devices via telnet without any issues, but using SSH , as soon as the connection opens the app freezes. I have tested this on various other iOS devices, including a freshly reset device. The freeze issue exists on all iOS devices. I Was in touch with the developers, they requested several screen recordings and remote SSH access into a sample device w the issue, which they did connected to, but they then stopped any replies / updates to me nearly a month ago. Of course putty and other SSH clients have no issue connecting to the devices ( mikrotik routerOS , and some fedora Linux boxes) , and obviously terminus had no issue connecting to these devices prior to that update. I will update this review to 4 or 5 stars when the issue is resolved, but it’s very frustrating to have nearly 100 devices entered manually into terminus app, and then a update one day stops half of them from working.

It has all the features I need, including private key support and port forwarding. Even the free version is better than prompt. Kind of wish I could justify paying them but I’m not crazy about the subscription price and I don’t really want any of the premium features.

This app has great quality!

I bought iSSH 10 years ago, when it was the only game in town. Sadly, its developers moved on, and Apple deprecated it to death. Terminus is the best replacement that I have found, and I would love to BUY it for a reasonable price, but I refuse to RENT software through a “subscription“. I can’t wait for the android developer to port JuiceSSH to iOS, or for these guys to offer a reasonable one time-fee to support them. JUST SAY NO TO SOFTWARE RENTAL!!!

After updating Termius to version 4.1.0 on my iPhone XR and iPad 2017, I can no longer connect to my CentOS 7 VPSes. I have the previous version (4.0.9) on my backup phone (iPhone 6S Plus), and I can still connect to my VPSes just fine. What the heck changed?!?

Latest update release keeps crashing on iPhone XS MAX on 12.1. Please fix ASAP. When it doesn’t crash I can connect to my servers because it get stuck at private key not selected.

When I originally paid for a subscription the mosh client didn’t work and support was terrible. I came back to give it a try again and I can’t get my subscription to work and it takes several days for support to respond. Deleting it again 😒

Works fine on my iPhone 4S.

Update ruined my SSH connections :P

This app used to work, now, since the last update, it just sits at ‘no private key selected’ and will not connect to anything. Very dissapointing.

In 4.1.1 the “Private Key not selected” bug has been fixed! Thanks!

Extremely useful, especially when working with a raspberry pi around the house. Always reliable, and always fun to use.

This app makes my life so much easier!

It is my absolute number one app. Swipe gestures and customizable function keys, all wrapped up in great and intuitive UI - I absolutely love it, it make control of my Raspberry PIs absolute please, even without a paid subscription.

It requires you to put in the password for connecting each tunnel instead of opening all tunnels when you connect once. But it's free, so it works well.

Just upgraded the app and now nothing works. Can’t SSH into my servers where just a few days ago I could. I can’t find a way to downgrade to the previous version so, I’m uninstalling and looking for another SSH terminal emulator.

Flawless application for SSH needs. Good usability and easy integration for booking up keys. Only thing I would do is make haptic feedback default to off. But that’s easy for a user to do.

I can do all kinds of fun stuff from my phone now.. like copy files from server to server, write and test bash scripts. I’ve been a fan of Termius for years and applause the team that make it!

I’ve used this as a solution for accessing my schools unix server for all of my programs and work. It worked perfectly fine up until today, so not sure if an update went through but all of a sudden both my iPhone and iPad refuse to connect to my schools ssh. I’ll have to rely on Shelly or something else until then I suppose.

I like the app, it’s useful to me and would like to support it but $60 a year is too expensive. I know you spent time developing it and would like to get paid, but the price is quite a turn-off and I’ve stopped my subscription.

I am very impressed with the functionality and though given by the developers. The price is totally not worth it though; and to make it subscription based in not professional.

Amazing Use Of the touchscreen for quick IT operations

$60 / year for an ssh client? Nah.

Thanks for 32bit support!

I just updated to 4.1.1 and am now able to connect to my servers again. So, thanks for fixing this serious bug in the app! However, the release notes for this latest version seem a little disingenuous. The previous release didn’t crash because an incorrect password was entered. It crashed at random. Furthermore, there was never an opportunity to even enter a password, because the login process would get stuck on trying to load a private key that never existed. Eventually the login would either timeout or the app would crash. And what’s this about an unsupported authentication method in our sshd_config? Do you mean password authentication, because that should be supported by any reasonable SSH client? The truth is you guys released a buggy update that should have never made it past the testing phase. This bad experience doesn’t incentivize anyone to sign up for a pricey annual subscription, especially when their are so many alternative apps out there that are one-time purchases or free. Many of your users are professionals who rely on their smartphones for quick access to their servers from anywhere they have a cellular Internet connection. When your app breaks, it forces us to look for alternatives quickly. I now have another SSH app on my iPhone “just in case” your app breaks again. I have had to use it the last few days to get work done. Please, please test your software more carefully before releasing another update! 11/6/2018: I just updated to the most recent version (4.1.0) and now the app either crashes or gets stuck at trying to load a private key (which I have none on my phone, BTW) when attempting to login to one of my servers. It would appear that this update wasn’t tested thoroughly before its release. It’s times like these I really wish Apple would allow users to downgrade to an older release. Please fix ASAP! Thanks.

Great with tons of features except it freezes for a couple seconds whenever I open it from the app switcher

not sure why but it hampers my workflow to tell each host to use ssh and every time i launch the host session i am yet again prompted to choose which protocol to use... otherwise a decent app

After updating Termius it’s suddenly asking for a private key to access my university’s computer servers. I’ve tried to add a public key but I can’t seem to log on and I have no idea how to find a private key. Can the Terminus staff please reverse this? I am no longer able to login to the school servers to work on assignments and projects!

Absolutely love it; does everything I need. They got all the terminal key bindings right. Having port forwarding as a separate group that doesn't open an interactive shell is wonderful. Yanko

Very easy to use as well

I keep this running on an iPad next to my Linux laptop so when X hangs I can get in and restart it.

The functionality is fine. The one star is because, as best I can tell, in 2018 the price has increased from $6/year, to $30/year, to the current $60/year, and the star rating is inflated by the majority of reviews about the free version. I like the free version too. Leaving aside any judgment of the real value of the app, the highly visible price changes really undercut the sense that the developer’s motives are based on engineering costs, and not just on raw profiteering. Many commentators clearly feel betrayed and preyed upon. I find the developers’ attempts to address people’s complaints about pricing to be condescending and circular. This is not normal in the iOS app realm, particularly among developers who position themselves as vending professional or enterprise apps. $6/yr was a bargain. $10/yr is appropriate for an Terminal client with bells on. $30 might be appropriate for a highly specialized vertical market app with a small user population. $60 every year for any terminal client is unjustifiable unless it also automagically manages my actual devices for me.

Despite the description saying it requires iOS 9.3 or later, attempting to update indicates it won't work.

I am not using private keys and the login just hangs

While I respect the need for developers to make money, a $60/year subscription for a SSH application is absurd.

WOW! 6.99 per month for a terminal App? I actually deleted the Free Trial after 1 day. I don’t want to support this kind of behavior.

Update: Latest update fixes the issues I’ve noted below. Changing star rating. It disappoints me to leave a negative review. But the latest version of terminus just doesn’t work well at all. First it crashes often - it is clear to me that someone didn’t test this release. Secondly, it will no longer connect to any of my saved hosts. And now it pesters me to make an account. Overall wish they had left it alone since it used to work just fine. Bummer. I can no longer recommend anyone use terminus.

Berry nice, indeed.

Really like the free version. Helps to be able to do putty type operations on phone vs booting up computer. Wanted to support dev and get premium until I saw price. $60\year is ... well not affordable. Would be willing to do so for $5-10. Especially for personal use. 5* is for free version. 1* for premium as the cost is crazy.

I use this all the time with a keyboard on my iPhone XR to ssh into my servers and use VIM. It’s awesome and this app has so many neat swipe functions and Bluetooth keyboard support it just is my mobile workstation.

Good set of features. Cuts connection when inactive and/or not foreground window

The best

I totally love this app, I use it everyday for all my servers, and with the UI being so simplistic, I can also allow my clients to use it when they need/want to! Great app, keep up the amazing work guys!

I refuse to use an ssh client that requires an account. There is no need of this

Thanks for arrow and ctl keys for use with bsd shell email. And green on black. Using older version Server Auditor on iPhone 3GS and android. Does everything I want well.

Not what I expected. If you had file editing you would've the perfect app. Will be deleting instead of buying premium without this feature.

I don’t need to ssh from my phone to a Mac or Linux server very often but when I do this little app is awesome. I had tried others in the past that were kind of lame but this covers the needed bases. I love the ability to choose what ever port you want, as I use all sorts of odd numbers for different machines.

Very convenience.

“Subscription”? Game over. Zero tolerance policy. Especially when it involves such sensitive data. I refuse to position myself to have my info held hostage - never going to happen. I’m not that s***** - are you? Also, it was working fine till the last update, now all it claims is “invalid argument”. Well, I didn’t change any settings, so that can’t be true. Apparently. what it means is: “no subscription, please bend over forward”.

little expensive

Read it.... “These Terms shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of New Zealand, without regard to its conflict of law provisions.” That is all... well, sh@@! It is a good app, just makes you wonder why it is so good. All I had to do was read!

I’ve tried a lot of different ssh clients, but Termius is definitely the best one! Truly professional app. Highly recommended.

This app fails on IPv6. It doesn’t respect any standards. For 2018 this is unforgivable! Two stars until this is remedied.

Smart phone is not part of my work flow, until I used Terminus.

Termius does everything I need when I ssh into a server.

Never support subscription Never!

I’ve been stalling on setting up Termius for awhile now because I’ve had everything in prompt. I can’t believe I’ve wasted this long everything that it allows me to do, groups, snippets, sync between devices and everything just works, extremely fast and responsive. I’ve had a few conversations with support and they’ve always been super polite and helpful, good product, good support; success in my book.

I have been using this App since before it’s name change, I noticed I kept getting pestered to try out the pro features that i didn’t need and it the pop ups got so intrusive that I decided to do a trial, keep in mind I have been using for 4 to 5 years now with no issues what so ever. The day came when my trial expired and they did not receive payment thinking everything would be okay. Come to find out something changed in the code that is causing it to lock up crash become very unresponsive, and maybe it’s just a bug but I have yet to see an update that has fixed this. I have done all you can do to try and fix it but it’s the only app that will lock up my entire phone. The latest configuration I’ve used was iPhone 10XS Max with iOS 12.1.1 and I had the same result on my iPhone X.

These guys clearly have no idea how a linux keyboard works. Even on iPad where is plenty of space, you are limited to only four extra keys (ctrl alt esc and vertical pipe). A heavy terminal user needs a lot more keys readily available, not just four. HP ILO application is an example of how to successfully have all needed keys ready at first tap. Maybe they can learn from there then I will change my review.