Your servers, one tap away.
KodeBy SSH is a calm, modern SSH client for Android. A real terminal, key login set up for you and file transfer – with no account, no ads and no tracking.
Coming soon to Google Play See what it does
Free Android app for Android 8 and newer.
deploy@web-01:~$ uptime 18:42:07 up 16 days, load average: 0.10, 0.08 deploy@web-01:~$ systemctl status nginx ● nginx.service – A high performance web server Active: active (running) since Fri deploy@web-01:~$ df -h / Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% /dev/sda1 96G 9.8G 86G 11% deploy@web-01:~$
A real terminal
Full colours and a proper terminal emulator, so htop, vim, tmux and Midnight Commander look the way they should.
- Esc, Tab, arrows and Home are always one tap away.
- Ctrl and Alt stay pressed for the next key: Ctrl, then C.
- Fn gives you F1–F12, Page Up and Page Down.
- Pinch to zoom, or set the text size in Settings.
Ctrl + C
Sessions that keep going
Switch to another app and your sessions stay connected, with a quiet notification that shows how many are open. Run several at once, jump between them from the top bar, and reconnect into the same window if the network drops.
KodeBy SSH
2 SSH sessions active
web-01 · backup-nas
Disconnect all
Key login, set up for you
Make an Ed25519 or RSA key on the phone, or import the one you already use (OpenSSH, PEM, PKCS#8 or PuTTY, with or without a passphrase). Then tap Set up key login: the app adds the key to the server, checks that it works and switches over. No more typing passwords.
Need the key on your computer too? Export it as a standard OpenSSH key file, with a passphrase if you like.
Set up key login
- New Ed25519 key createdon this phone
- Added to ~/.ssh/authorized_keyson web-01
- Key login testedit works
web-01 now logs in with your key.
Know who you’re talking to
The first time you connect, the app shows the server’s fingerprint so you can check it. After that it remembers. If the server’s identity ever changes, the connection stops and you see a clear warning – Don’t connect is the main button.
This server’s identity has changed
Someone may be listening in, or the server was reinstalled. Check with whoever runs it.
- Saved
SHA256:Vb3k…9fQa - Now
SHA256:x7Qp…L2Ve
Files over SFTP
Browse folders on your server, upload from your phone, download to it, make folders, rename and delete. Big transfers show their progress and can be cancelled, and a half-uploaded file is cleaned up.
/home/deploy/www
- assets
- logs
- index.html4.2 KB
- nginx.conf1.8 KB
Uploading report.pdf64 %
Your keys stay on your phone
- No account, no ads, no analytics, no tracking.
- Keys and passwords are encrypted with Android’s secure key store.
- Optional app lock with fingerprint, face or PIN.
- Backups are off, so secrets never leave the phone.
- Connects only to the servers you add.
- Built on open-source SSH: sshj and Bouncy Castle.
Light or dark
Phosphor green on black, or calm Fjord blue in the daytime – or follow your phone.
Coming soon to Google Play
KodeBy SSH is finished and on its way to Google Play. Questions, ideas or a server it can’t talk to? Write to us.