Termius

The command line is a powerful tool, I urge everyone to at least have a play with once or twice.

Inside the world of the command line, the ability to connect to another computer via SSH (Secure Shell Protocol) makes administrating and deploying new machines a breeze, as long as the machine you wish to connect to is connected your local network/or the internet.
Raspberry Pi’s use SSH in their set up process, if your unable to connect to a monitor.

Cloud and linux server computing relies heavily on ssh, and finding an alternative to PuTTY was one of my recent challenges, but I didn’t expect to find an application as good as Termius when I embarked on the journey.

Termius is a cross platform SSH client, which all gives all the functionality of the Terminal emulator/window, to devices not normally associated with doing this kind of work.

• iPhone

• iPad

Termius is also available for

• MacOS

• Linux

• Android

The shell or terminal emulator saves all the connections details you need, everything is one click away.
You can save command snippets and assign them to a host or available for all hosts.

Terminal addons, such as Neofetch and Fish both work within Termius if already installed on the host machine.

Each host is able to have its own colour scheme, perfect for a quick visual reference to which host you’re connected to. Termius offers groups allowing multiple hosts to be placed in basically folders, great for organising multi site companies or keeping the side hustle and day job separate.

The app, can hold passwords in keychains - allowing them to be used against multi hosts - “pi and raspberry” is a prefect one to save so you don’t have to keep typing it in.

For a paid option Termius open up to allow saving host details in the cloud, sharing with team members.

Whilst Linux has a perfectly good terminal emulator built in, Termius is supported on Linux too which is great now I'm running ubuntu on my 2011 15” MacBook Pro.

Termius has become one of my most used apps, one of the first items I install on new devices and recommend to colleagues all the time.