Termius Alternatives for iPhone, iPad and Mac (2026)

Short answer: the main Termius alternatives on Apple devices are:

• Secure ShellFish for Files app integration
• Blink Shell for an iPad terminal with Mosh
• WebSSH for a cheap lifetime licence
• Prompt 3 for a polished terminal from Panic
• Moray, which we make, for a native SSH and SFTP client with no account and iCloud sync

Each of them costs less than Termius Pro, and several sync through your own iCloud with no vendor account. If you need Windows, Linux or Android, or a shared team vault, stay with Termius. Nothing below replaces that.

Prices are as listed on the US App Store on 31 October 2026.

Why people look for an alternative

Termius is a good app with a big following: a 4.7 rating from about 19,600 reviews on iOS. People who leave usually give one of three reasons:

• Price. In the App Store, Termius Pro costs $15 a month or $119 a year. That is a lot to pay just to sync hosts between your own iPhone and Mac.
• The account. The app works locally without an account, but sync needs a Termius account and a subscription. That means your server list lives in Termius's cloud vault. The vault is encrypted, but it is one more place to trust.
• Cross-platform you don't use. Much of what you pay for is Windows, Linux, Android and team features. If you only use Apple devices, you pay for reach you never use.

The alternatives

Secure ShellFish

This is the pick if what you mostly do is open and edit files on a server. Remote folders show up in the Files app and Finder, cached for offline use, and Shortcuts can automate file operations. Servers sync through iCloud Keychain. It doesn't have Mosh. It relies on built-in tmux to keep sessions alive instead.

Blink Shell

This is the pick for developers who want OpenSSH behaviour on an iPad. It has Mosh, the full SSH config file including ControlMaster, Secure Enclave keys, certificates, SOCKS proxies and agent forwarding. It runs on iPhone and iPad only, with no Mac app, and its App Store rating is 3.1.

WebSSH

This is the pick if you want to pay once and get everything: SSH, Mosh, SFTP, Telnet, serial, port forwarding, bastion hosts and a Proxmox client. It has no account, no analytics and no ads. The free version limits you to one saved connection.

Prompt 3

This is the pick for a beautiful terminal on iPhone, iPad and Mac with Mosh, Eternal Terminal, jump hosts and Face ID-gated Secure Enclave keys. Sync goes through Panic Sync with a passphrase you choose. There is no file manager. Panic's Transmit covers that, sold separately.

Moray

This is the pick if you want one app that does the terminal, SFTP and tunnels natively on iPhone, iPad and Mac, without creating an account anywhere.

• Keys live in the device Keychain behind Face ID or Touch ID.
• Sync (Pro) goes through your own iCloud, and we run no server.
• On the Mac, Moray imports ~/.ssh/config and your keys from ~/.ssh directly.
• Free tier: unlimited hosts, three terminal sessions at once and the SFTP manager, and it never expires.
• Pro adds sync, tunnels, ProxyJump, dual-pane and server-to-server copy, and Files app mounts. It costs $0.99 a month, $7.99 a year or $24.99 once.

What Moray doesn't do:

• It has no Mosh.
• It doesn't run on Windows, Linux or Android.
• It has no team vault.
• It is younger than the other apps here, with far fewer reviews.

When to stay with Termius

Stay with Termius in any of these cases:

• You SSH from a Windows or Linux machine, or an Android phone, as well as Apple devices.
• Your team shares a host vault with access control.
• You rely on Termius-specific features such as its snippets library across platforms.

In those cases the price buys real reach that nothing else here matches.

Moving your hosts

If your hosts are in a ~/.ssh/config file, every app above except Termius's own vault can use it in some way. Blink and Moray import it, and Prompt reads ProxyJump from it on the Mac. Move your keys by importing the private key files, or better, generate a new key per device and add it to authorized_keys. Then you can retire the old key without touching anything else. Our guide to SSH keys covers the one-key-per-device approach.