Clayshell

Your servers, in one calm place.
An SSH server manager for Mac and iPhone.

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Free on the App Store for Mac and iPhone: Download Clayshell

What it does

Terminal	A real terminal with full colour, in tabs.
Files	Browse the server over SFTP. Upload, download, rename, delete, make files and folders, preview text files.
Editor with a backup	Edit a file on the server. Before every save the old version is kept next to it as a .bak file, and one tap puts it back.
Monitor	CPU, memory, disk, load, uptime and the busiest processes, live, for Linux servers.
PM2	See your processes, start, stop and restart them, follow their logs.
Alerts	Disk filling up, CPU or memory staying high, a PM2 process down, a server out of reach. On the Mac from the menu bar; or from a small script on the server itself, to Telegram, ntfy or a webhook.
More SSH	Jump hosts, import from your SSH config, port forwarding, Ed25519 / ECDSA / RSA keys or a password.

Your data stays with you

• No account, no analytics, no tracking. Nothing is sent to the maker.
• Passwords and keys are kept in the Keychain on your device, and are not synced.
• Clayshell only talks to the servers you add.
• It asks before trusting a new server, and stops if a server's key changes.
• The Mac app is sandboxed. An optional lock uses Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode.

The full privacy policy is one page.

Screenshots

Mac

iPhone

Good to know

• Needs macOS 15 or iOS 18.
• Monitoring needs a Linux server. The PM2 screen needs PM2 on the server. Server alerts need curl and cron there.
• An RSA key protected by a passphrase is not supported yet; use Ed25519, or an RSA key without a passphrase.
• The iPhone app runs on iPad in iPhone mode for now. iCloud sync is not in 1.0.

Questions and problems

Open an issue here, or write to clayshell@opendmg.app. Please do not post passwords or private keys.

About this repository

This repository is Clayshell's public page: news, releases and issues. The app's source code is not here.

Clayshell is built with SwiftUI and these open-source libraries: Citadel, swift-nio, swift-nio-ssh, swift-crypto, swift-log, SwiftTerm and BigInt. Their licences are shown in the app under Settings, Acknowledgements.

The two films on this page were made with onetake.

Made by Arvind Kumar.