ConnectBot

Kenny Root

About this app

ConnectBot is a powerful open-source Secure Shell (SSH) client. It can manage simultaneous SSH sessions, create secure tunnels, and copy/paste between other applications.

This client allows you to connect to Secure Shell servers that typically run on UNIX-based servers.

Ratings and reviews

It doesn't spam you with a bunch of ads you'll never intentionally click, so that alone is worth four stars. It would be five stars, but it's a little buggy. But it's free, it's actively supported, and It Just Works. I use this almost daily. The other recentreviews are worth reading to understand what you'll get. I do wish the row of extra keys was configurable, and I wish Enter was one of them (I frequently will up-arrow and enter to re-run a command), but you're crazy if you use anything else.

Not sure why anybody would use a different telnet/ssh tool on Android. This is the only one worth using. It's got a couple things I don't like (text entry cursor indicated position vs actual character position synchronization is bad, gets further and further apart with the right side of the screen on several phone models), and it won't accept some officially permitted punctuation characters in domain names, so you can't use it to connect to those services unless you know the IP address.

I liked this app, but it's now unusable. Although I didn't change any settings (and can't find any setting for it), it now saves all key presses until a word is completed. That's inconvenient, but what makes it unusable is that it sends Ctrl sequences as plain letters too. I tried to do a fresh install, but my phone is lying about the data that it's keeping around (which I'm sure is not the app's fault, I give Google Pixel 2★ too), so I can't even do that.

What’s new

* Fix for Google Play Services breaking using Ed25519 pubkeys.
* Updated translations.