A real SSH client for iPhone and iPad

Apple never shipped an SSH client. If the prod alert hits at 2am while you are nowhere near a laptop, the default iPhone gives you nothing, no `ssh user@host`, no terminal, no SFTP. SSHive fills that gap with a native iPhone and iPad app: a real xterm-256color terminal built on SwiftTerm, Ed25519 + ECDSA P-256 private-key auth with bcrypt-pbkdf passphrase encryption, local tunnels, and credentials stored in the iOS Keychain behind Face ID or Touch ID, all in a SwiftUI interface that adapts to iPhone TabView and iPad NavigationSplitView. The model is intentionally simple: no subscription, no data sent off your device, one-time Pro purchase, yours for life. The Free tier covers 2 concurrent sessions, 5 saved profiles, 1 local tunnel, 3 snippets and 10 MB-per-file SFTP. Pro is $9.99 one-time on the App Store (Universal Purchase: pay once, use on iPhone, iPad, and Mac). If something feels off or could be better, we are listening, write to us.

SSHive on iOS is a real SwiftUI app, not a web view, not a cross-platform JavaScript wrapper. The terminal emulation comes from SwiftTerm, a mature open-source xterm-256color implementation in Swift, which handles VT100/xterm escape sequences, ANSI colors, alternate-screen buffers (for `less`, `vim`, `htop`), bracketed paste, and mouse reporting. The SSH transport runs on Citadel, a modern Swift SSH2 implementation, with known-hosts verification. Keys live in the iOS Keychain with `SecAccessControl` set to `BiometryCurrentSet`, meaning Face ID or Touch ID is required to read them, and they invalidate if you change your biometric enrollment. The encrypted SSH passphrase is wrapped with bcrypt-pbkdf (the OpenSSH-standard KDF) and decrypted on-device into a transient memory buffer that is zeroed after use. Your key material never hits a server we control, and it stays off iCloud unless you explicitly enable the opt-in, end-to-end encrypted sync. The network model handles iOS realities: background time limits, network changes between Wi-Fi and 5G, App Refresh restrictions. Sessions reconnect automatically when the network comes back, configurable SSH keep-alive (`ServerAliveInterval`) prevents idle disconnects, and the integrated NetworkExtension VPN client covers fleets that are only reachable behind a VPN. On iPad with a Magic Keyboard, the experience is close to a laptop, physical keyboard with Cmd, Ctrl, Esc working as expected, terminal panes resizable via the NavigationSplitView, and Stage Manager keeping SSHive alongside a browser or Notes. On iPhone, the on-screen modifier strip exposes the keys a touch screen normally cannot send (Esc, Tab, Ctrl, Alt, arrows, pipe, slash, tilde) so `Ctrl+C`, `Ctrl+R`, navigating `less`, scrolling logs all work without an external keyboard.