Admin Hands: SSH & SFTP Client

ARPAPLUS

About this app

Admin Hands is an all-in-one SSH client, SFTP/FTP/FTPS client, terminal and powerful remote server administration toolkit for Android. Connect to Linux, Unix and Windows servers, manage remote files, run commands, monitor system resources and work with multiple hosts — all from one app.

Built for system administrators, developers, DevOps engineers and anyone who needs reliable remote server access on the go.

★ SSH CLIENT & TERMINAL ★
Connect to your servers and work from a full-featured mobile terminal.

• SSH client with a color terminal
• Telnet support
• Multiple simultaneous SSH, SFTP, FTP and Telnet sessions
• Extra terminal keyboard with arrows, function keys and special characters
• Modern terminal color themes
• Session management and session duration tracking
• SSH Snippets for frequently used commands and scripts

★ SFTP, FTP & FTPS FILE MANAGER ★
Manage remote files directly from your Android device.

• SFTP client
• FTP client
• FTPS Explicit mode
• FTPS Implicit mode
• Upload and download files
• Navigate and manage remote directories
• Create empty files via FTP and SFTP
• Open and edit remote files
• Built-in text editor with syntax highlighting
• HTTP upload and download tools

★ SSH KEYS & AUTHENTICATION ★
Use passwords or SSH keys to securely access your servers. Admin Hands supports SSH key generation and multiple key types:

RSA, ED25519, ECDSA, DSA

Yes, even that old one DSA (connect to them ancient instances, buddy)!
Generate SSH keys directly on your device, securely store identities and reuse them across your server configurations.

★ SECURE PASSWORD GENERATOR ★
Create strong random passwords directly inside Admin Hands. The built-in secure password generator helps you create credentials without relying on external websites or services.

★ HOST & SERVER MANAGEMENT ★
Keep your infrastructure organized in one place.

• Save and manage multiple servers
• Create server groups
• Create reusable user profiles
• Assign identities and credentials to hosts
• Copy and organize hosts
• Quickly switch between servers and active sessions
• Import and export server data
• Export host information in CSV, XML and HTML formats

★ BATCH OPERATIONS (ACTIONS) ★
Admin Hands can perform remote operations across multiple servers, saving time when administering larger infrastructures.

• Execute commands on multiple hosts
• Upload files to multiple servers
• Download files
• Batch ping hosts

★ SERVER MONITORING ★
Check important server statistics directly from your phone.

• CPU usage
• RAM usage
• Disk usage
• Network statistics
• Real-time system information over SSH
• Android home screen widget for server monitoring

★ SSH SNIPPETS ★
Save frequently used commands and scripts as Snippets, quickly insert them into your SSH terminal. Snippets are useful for service management, Docker commands, diagnostics, log inspection, deployment tasks, maintenance scripts and other commands you use regularly.

★ PRIVACY & SECURITY ★
Server credentials are sensitive, so Admin Hands is designed to keep them under your control.

• Credentials stored in the app are protected with AES-256 encryption
• No advertising
• No analytics
• No telemetry
• No third-party tracking SDKs

Admin Hands does not send your credentials or usage statistics to our servers and does not include advertising or analytics libraries that can collect your activity.

Your remote connections go to the servers and destinations you configure. You decide where your traffic goes.

ONE TOOL FOR REMOTE SERVER ADMINISTRATION

Whether you need an SSH terminal, SFTP file manager, FTP or FTPS client, remote text editor, SSH key generator, server monitor, batch administration tool or an organized way to manage many remote hosts, Admin Hands brings essential server administration tools together in one Android app.

Ratings and reviews

This app is great for connecting to my compute using ssh or sftp and IPv6. It's pretty easy to set up and use. However, I have noticed a couple of annoying bugs. One, if I click to open a file directly instead of download it, it says permission denied. It's not an issue on the server end since I can download the file. Two, when I rotate my phone and the screen changes, it opens a new connection. I can end up with a lot of connections open just from not holding my phone steady.

This is a really well done app, i have a couple of comments, it looks like it's possible to run scripts, and I'd like more information on the format of the scripts. The other thing is, in the terminal, the block cursor is always several characters ahead of the actual next character location, which is distracting.

There is a bug where downloading a file and choosing to overwrite an existing file instead makes the file 0 bytes and doesn't download the new file unless you delete the old one first. There's also a bug where selecting upload will open the file picker twice, and if you don't close the second one and instead choose your file again, the upload will fail. The app icon also changed to say SSH in giant letters, making it blatantly obvious what the app is for, which I think is a security risk.

What’s new

- Local port forwarding with background mode
- Added proxy support: HTTP CONNECT, SOCKS5 and SSH (Jump Host) to reach machines inside restricted networks
- Added Connection Route (Host Chains) for complex corporate and private network infrastructures
- Added Biometric App Lock for an extra layer of security
- Added host icons (can be disabled in Settings)