SSH, SFTP, RDP and VNC in one app for Mac
Terminal, file manager, remote desktop, serial console and SSH tunnels in a single window. Plus a built-in MCP server, so Claude and Cursor can work on your real servers.
- Pro $12.99 once
- No subscription
- No account
- No telemetry, no ads
- Made in France
All-in-one
8 protocols. One window.
Stop paying for four apps and switching between them. Every connection is a profile, every profile opens as a tab.
GPU terminal
GPU-accelerated rendering, agent forwarding, auto-reconnect. Jump hosts are Pro.
SFTP · FTP · FTPSDual-pane files
Drag from Finder, edit remotely, ⌘S saves straight back to the server.
RDPProWindows desktops
Sign in with NLA or an Active Directory account, in a tab beside your shells.
VNCProScreen sharing
Mac, Linux and Raspberry Pi screens. Authentication: VNC password, RSA-AES, VeNCrypt / X.509 and Apple Screen Sharing.
Serial · TelnetLegacy gear
A console cable to a switch or a board. Apple dropped telnet in 2017; this brings it back.
Tunnels-L · -R · -D
Local, remote and SOCKS5 forwarding in one visual panel. Remote and SOCKS5 are Pro.
More in the Mac app:FTP and FTPS clientTelnet clientBroadcast modeCommand snippetsNetwork tools
AI integration · MCP
Connect your AI. Let it work for you.
SSHive ships an MCP server. Enable it, paste the config into Claude Code, Cursor or Claude Desktop, and your assistant reads logs, runs commands and edits files inside your live sessions.
- 20 tools to list sessions, run commands, browse, read, write, upload, download, rename and delete.
- Local server on 127.0.0.1 only, behind a Bearer token. No cloud relay.
- One-shot setup by pasting the config, or with a single Claude Code command.
The MCP server is part of Pro, and it runs on macOS.
Step-by-step setup for Claude Code, Cursor and Claude Desktop.
Discover the MCP integrationPinned
Prod incident
Nginx 502 audit
Backup rotation
Check disk space on production and look at the latest nginx errors
$ df -h / && free -h/dev/nvme0n1p2 196G 134G 42G 68% /Mem: 15Gi 6.2Gi 8.8Gi
[error] 502 upstream timed out · api-gatewayRead 2.1 KB (38 lines)
Production has 42 GB free, 68% used, and memory is healthy at 6.2 of 16 GB.
The last error was a 502 three hours ago: the api-gateway container restarted briefly. Nothing since.
⎿ /dev/nvme0n1p2 196G 134G 42G 68% / Mem: 15Gi 6.2Gi 8.8Gi
⎿ Read 2.1 KB (38 lines)
and other MCP clients
Your servers stay yours
A European app, built in France, with nothing to phone home about.
No account, ever
No sign-up, and no database of ours holding anything. On the Mac, credentials are encrypted with a key kept in the macOS Keychain; on iPhone and iPad they are a device-only Keychain item, excluded from iCloud backups, behind Face ID or Touch ID when biometric protection is on.
No telemetry, no ads
In the app: no analytics, no advertising SDK, no crash pings. Apple’s own privacy label on the listing reads Data Not Collected. The site counts visits with a tool we host ourselves, without cookies.
Optional private sync
iCloud sync inside your own Apple account, off until you turn it on, never a relay of ours. A Pro feature.
Works offline
The app needs no internet of its own, only the route to your servers.
Built for Apple silicon
A Mac App Store build that posts real macOS notifications and goes through Apple's review before every release.
One purchase, three devices
Universal Purchase: Mac, iPhone and iPad on the same Apple ID, Family Sharing included.
Compare
SSHive vs the usual suspects
The six questions people ask before they switch, answered in words rather than ticks.
| Feature | SSHive | Termius | MobaXterm | Royal TSX |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SSH terminal | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| RDP & VNC built in | Yes | No | Windows only | Yes |
| Serial console & Telnet | Yes | Partial | Windows only | Partial |
| MCP server for AI | Yes | No | No | No |
| Mac app & Keychain | Yes | Partial | No | Partial |
| Pricing model | Free / $12.99 once | $10/month, billed annually | Free / paid Pro | €49 excl. VAT |
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Reviews
What the App Store says
Every rating, quote and figure below is taken from the App Store itself. Nothing here was solicited, and no praise from the support mailbox is used.
18 ratings across the Mac and iPhone listings, 7 of them written reviews. Every written review has a published reply from the developer.
Figures measured on Sep 21, 2026, from App Store Connect. They move every week.
See it on the App StoreIn their own words
accuexMac App Store Excellent value and a very reliable developer
SSHive offers excellent value for the price. It is very easy to use, and I have had no issues managing more than 100 servers with it. The developer is also very responsive to bug reports and feature requests, often addressing them quickly.
beer bellyMac App Store Outstanding
Lovely SSH terminal software that also does Remote Desktop/vnc. Contacted customer support and they fell over backwards to resolve my problem very quickly. Would do business with again. It’s nice to not need a subscription either.
LauVv1Mac App Store Intégration MCP Claude
J’ai créé et déployé mon site web complet de A à Z. Gérer des serveurs n’a jamais été aussi simple !
Apple privacy label: Data Not Collected
Not a claim of ours: it is the privacy label Apple prints on the listing, next to every app you might compare SSHive with. Nothing is collected, and there is no account to collect it against.
- Free · In-App Purchases
- Developer Tools
- 77.1 MB on Mac
- 24.2 MB on iPhone and iPad
App Store listing, checked Sep 27, 2026.
Pricing
One purchase. No subscription.
Start free, with no trial and no card. Move up to Pro when you want it: once, for life.
Free
$0forever, no trial and no card
- 2 concurrent SSH sessions
- 5 saved profiles
- SFTP file manager, uploads up to 10 MB
- 1 local SSH tunnel (-L)
- The snippet library, 3 of your own
- OTP authenticator, 3 tokens (Mac only)
- Free on Mac: SSH · SFTP · FTP / FTPS · Serial · Telnet
- Free on iPhone and iPad: SSH · SFTP
- The network tools, at no cost
- The AI assistant, at no cost (Mac only)
RDP and VNC are not part of the free tier: they need Pro from the very first session.
Download freePro
$12.99once, for life
Price on the US App Store. Every other storefront charges Apple's own local equivalent.
- Unlimited SSH sessions, saved profiles and snippets
- SFTP uploads with no 10 MB cap
- RDP remote desktop, from the first session
- VNC viewer, from the first session
- Broadcast mode: one command across many servers (Mac only)
- The local MCP server for Claude and Cursor, 20 tools (Mac only)
- Jump hosts, to reach a server behind a bastion
- Shared accounts, reused across profiles
- Profile import and export
- Session logging
- Private iCloud sync between your devices
- The light theme
- Remote tunnels (-R)
- SOCKS5 proxy tunnels (-D) (Mac only)
- The VPN client, with IKEv2, IPSec and OpenVPN (iPhone and iPad only)
A one-time in-app purchase: no subscription, no account, nothing to renew. Family Sharing is enabled, and Universal Purchase unlocks it on Mac, iPhone and iPad under one Apple ID.
Get Pro on the App StoreFAQ
Questions
Is there a subscription?
No. SSHive is free to download, and Pro is a single in-app purchase you make once. There is no monthly plan, no renewal and no seat count. You keep the version you bought, and updates are included for as long as the app is maintained.
Does one purchase cover my Mac, my iPhone and my iPad?
Yes. The Mac app and the iPhone/iPad app share one bundle identifier and one in-app purchase, so Apple treats them as a Universal Purchase: buy Pro on any of them and it unlocks on all of them, on the same Apple Account. Family Sharing is enabled too. The two apps are not identical, though: the Mac does several things the phone cannot, and there is a full breakdown further down this page.
What do I get for free, and what needs Pro?
Free gives you the SSH and file-transfer half of the app: SSH terminal, SFTP, FTP and FTPS, serial console, Telnet, the network tools and the built-in AI assistant, with two concurrent SSH sessions, five saved profiles, 10 MB SFTP uploads, one local tunnel and three snippets. Pro removes the session, profile, upload and snippet limits, allows more local tunnels, and adds RDP, VNC, broadcast mode, jump hosts, shared accounts, session logging, remote and SOCKS tunnels, iCloud sync, profile import and export, the light theme, the MCP server and, on iPhone and iPad, the VPN client. RDP and VNC are Pro from the first session; the site used to say otherwise, and that was wrong.
What do I need to run SSHive?
A Mac on macOS 12 Monterey or later, Apple silicon only (the Mac App Store listing carries no Intel build), or an iPhone or iPad on iOS 17 or iPadOS 17. The Mac download is 77.1 MB and the iPhone and iPad one is 24.2 MB: two separate builds, not the same file twice. Nothing else is needed (no account, no runtime to install, no server of ours to reach), and the free tier costs nothing, so you can check it against your own hosts before deciding.
Which AI providers can I use, and where does my API key go?
Claude, OpenAI, Gemini and Mistral, plus any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, which is how people run LM Studio, Ollama, vLLM, z.ai, Groq or OpenRouter against it. You bring your own key. It is stored encrypted on your Mac, with the encryption key held by the macOS Keychain, and requests go straight from your machine to the provider you chose; nothing passes through a server of ours. The in-terminal assistant is free, not a Pro feature, and it is part of the Mac app only.
Where does SSHive store my passwords and keys?
On iPhone and iPad, in the iOS Keychain, which can ask for Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode before handing a secret over. On the Mac, encrypted with a key that macOS keeps in its Keychain, then saved in a file only your user account can read; a setting asks for Touch ID before any password is decrypted, off by default. Never in a database of ours, and never on a server. One caveat: iCloud sync, a Pro option, copies these secrets into your iCloud Keychain so your other devices can use them. That is the point of sync, but it is worth knowing before you turn it on.
Do I need an account? Do you collect anything?
No account, and nothing collected. There is no sign-up, no login and no server of ours between you and your machines: SSHive connects straight from your device to your host. Apple's own privacy label on the listing reads "Data Not Collected", which is Apple's statement rather than ours. Beyond the hosts you connect to, the app reaches only what you switch on yourself: your own iCloud account for sync (a Pro option) and, on the Mac, the AI provider whose key you entered for the assistant.
What can the Mac do that the iPhone and iPad cannot?
The phone and the tablet speak SSH, SFTP, RDP and VNC. The Mac adds FTP and FTPS, the serial console, Telnet, broadcast mode, the OTP authenticator, SOCKS (-D) tunnels, the in-terminal AI assistant and the MCP server. The tunnel line is narrower than it sounds: local (-L) and remote (-R) both work on the phone, and SOCKS is the single one that stays on the Mac, because no iOS app can consume a SOCKS proxy listening on the device itself. It goes the other way once: the VPN client, with IKEv2, IPSec and OpenVPN, is on iPhone and iPad only. A profile that the Mac created for a protocol the phone cannot open still syncs across, and the phone shows it rather than pretending it is not there.
Guides
Where to start
Step-by-step pages for common first tasks, written for a Mac.
Everything a sysadmin needs, in one application
Free to start on Mac, iPhone and iPad. Pro is $12.99, once.
Get SSHive on the Mac App Store- No account needed
- No ads, no tracking
- Touch ID + Keychain