iPad

SSH client for iPad

SSHaven on iPad is the same native SSH client as on iPhone — a live terminal, Keychain-backed credentials, and a tmux agent board — with more room for a hardware keyboard and longer sessions.

Why iPad is a serious SSH surface

An iPad with a keyboard is close to a portable workstation: you can sit with a folio, type real commands, and keep an agent fleet visible without hauling a laptop. The limiting factor is usually the SSH app — not the hardware.

SSHaven uses an xterm.js terminal with font-size controls and a special-keys toolbar for Esc, Ctrl, arrows, and similar keys when you are on touch-only. Pair a hardware keyboard when you want full typing speed.

Hardware keyboard workflows

  • Type normally into the live PTY once a session is connected.
  • Use the on-screen special-keys bar when a key is awkward on a compact folio.
  • Keep multiple servers saved; jump between a classic shell and tmux agent tabs.
  • Leave remote work running — the multi-session SSH pool is built so closing a tab on the iPad does not have to kill the remote job.

Same security model as iPhone

Credentials are still on-device. Passwords and passphrases go in the iOS Keychain; keys are not uploaded to an SSHaven cloud. That holds whether you are on iPhone or iPad.

There is no SSHaven account to sign into before you can SSH. Add a host, authenticate, work.

Agents on the bigger canvas

The agent pilot board is often easier on iPad: more room to scan Running / Needs you / Finished, open a session, and answer an approval prompt. SSHaven is not an on-device model. It attaches to tmux sessions you already run on machines you control.

Price

One App Store purchase — $4.99 — covers iPhone and iPad. No subscription required to open a shell.

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