Carbon - SSH Code Editor

Lucas Aschenbach

About this app

You can connect Carbon to any SSH server and instantly have a full-featured Code Editor, File Explorer, and Terminal available to comfortably interact with the files on your remote system.

Core Features:

📱 Text Editor
Robust mobile text editor with draggable cursor and subtle auto-formatting specifically for coding.

🎨 Syntax Highlighting
View your code files properly highlighted with support for 180+ languages.

🖥 Terminal Emulator
Control your server from the built-in terminal emulator with xterm-256color output. (some functionality is still being implemented)

📂 SFTP
Easily add, remove, move, and rename files with the click of a button.

➡️ Port-Forwarding
View applications like a web app running on your remote server using the built in local port forwarding.

Disclaimer: Carbon has recently reached a stable state. However, the app is still in preview which means some functionality may still be fragile.

Ratings and reviews

This tool looks awesome and seams to edit code wonderfully. The terminal is a very nice touch. One thing that could make the terminal better is implementing buttons that mobile keyboards generally don't have. Another thing to note is that when using a keyboard that did have a full set of keys, keys Ctrl and the arrows did not generate expected results. Seeing as the terminal is a massive part of my work flow and using arrows to get to my previous command I can't use this solution for my projects

Good app but has bugs. Would recommend to others. However, there is a major flaw regarding cache. Cache retains the old data even if it was modified many times. If I stop the app then clear cache manually it gets fixed. It also happens while deleting. Some files after deletion to terminal still show in editor and can ve edited but it doesn't show in terminal.

The UI is awesome (enabled 😉). There are some settings missing and the settings page doesn't open (ig it's under dev). Need more customisation for font size. I'm in love with the terminal theme. However, there's no more extra special keys (three dots doesnt work.) and I cant scroll in tui apps like htop. It needs more be more like termux user experience when it comes to rendering terminal and working with tui apps. Hope these are fixed/added soon.

What’s new

This update of Carbon comes with bug fixes and performance improvements.

New Features:
- Function row for terminal with esc, ctrl, alt and arrow keys.