Saffron SSH for iPhone & iPad
Serious SSH,
no strings.
A native terminal that talks straight to your servers. There is no signup screen — we never made one.
The features other SSH apps hold back are free here. We charge for one thing — sync — and it’s very affordable.
The free tier
is the whole tool.
Tunnels, all three kinds
Local, remote and a full SOCKS5 proxy — the -L, -R and -D you actually use, set up per host with a switch.
Jump hosts
Pick a bastion and connect through it. Your session rides an encrypted channel the whole way.
Agent forwarding
Your phone is the agent. Hop server to server without a private key ever leaving your Keychain.
Keys done right
Generate Ed25519 keys on-device, or import your own — passphrase-protected ones included.
Snippets & autocomplete
Your history completes as you type. Saved snippets run your routine commands in one tap.
Sessions that survive
Auto-reconnect, an opt-in keep-alive mode, and Live Activities that show session health on your Lock Screen.
Face ID lock
Leave the app, it locks. Your hosts, keys and open terminals stay behind your face.
Made for iPad too
Hardware keyboard shortcuts, pinch-to-zoom type, and tabs for every session you have open.
Pricing
Pay for sync. Or don't.
Every subscription starts with a 7-day free trial.
Free
$0
forever
Everything above. Not a trial, not a teaser — the whole terminal.
Pro
$9.49
per year — or own it forever for $29.99, once
Hosts, keys and settings on every device, synced through your own iCloud, end-to-end encrypted by Apple.
AI
$2.99
per month, or $24.99 per year
Describe what you need in plain words, get the command. Or have any command explained before you run it.
Everything
$29.99
per year
Pro and AI together. One decision, done.
Prices in USD. The App Store shows the exact price in your currency.
We couldn’t read your keys
if we wanted to.
- No account, ever. Nothing to sign up for, nothing to breach, nothing to sell.
- Sync is your iCloud, not our cloud. Keys and hosts travel through iCloud Keychain, end-to-end encrypted by Apple. We run no servers for your data.
- Straight to your server. No relay, no gateway, no middle-man. Your keystrokes are between you and your machine.
- Leave anytime. Your configuration exports to plain JSON. No lock-in, because there is nothing to lock.
No account. Ever.
Install it, add a host, you’re in. The way an SSH client should work.