Shellvana is an SSH client that renders terminal output as readable text instead of a shrunken 80-column grid.
It connects to any server running standard sshd. There is nothing to install on the host.
WHAT IT DOES DIFFERENTLY
- Shellvana negotiates a fixed terminal size with the server, then decides block by block how each piece of output should be shown. Paragraphs and prose reflow into comfortable proportional type sized for a phone. Tables, diffs, tree output, and anything column-aligned stay in monospace at their exact original spacing, because reflowing those destroys them.
- You can switch any session to the raw terminal grid at any time. The exact bytes the server sent are always one tap away.
READS OUTPUT FROM TERMINAL AI CODING AGENTS
Command-line coding assistants such as Claude Code and opencode draw themselves as full-screen terminal interfaces. They repaint lines in place, wrap text at their own width, and surround answers with banners, spinners, and status footers.
Shellvana was built to read them. It separates each answer into its own message, reflows text the agent wrapped at its own width, keeps inline code in monospace, and leaves the banners and spinners out of the readable view. Ask a question on your phone and read the answer as prose.
WORKS WITH REAL TERMINAL PROGRAMS
Full terminal emulation, so vim, htop, tmux, and zellij run normally. When a always in your own browser, never inside the app.
Clear one host's history or all of it whenever you want. Transcripts older than 30 days delete themselves.
FREE AND PRO
Free: one live session, password and key authentication, host profiles, and the complete readable rendering with colour and Markdown. The readability is not the paid part.
Pro is a single one-time purchase, no subscription: four concurrent sessions, hardware-backed key authentication, the additional reading fonts, an incognito sessions that write no transcript at all.
REQUIREMENTS
Any host running standard sshd. Phones. Portrait or landscape.
An SSH client that renders terminal output as readable prose, not a tiny grid.