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

Great app, just one small issue keeping it from 5 stars for me, when the special keys line appears, it covers the last line of the console. Would be great if it kept one blank line at the bottom for the special keys line. Other than that, it's great and I use it all the time!

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.

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.

What’s new

• Improved import compatibility and modern RSA host key support
• Restored URL detection and “Keep screen on”
• Added authentication banner support
• Fixed keyboard shortcuts for IMEs
• Fixed Ed25519 key copying/exporting
• Improved host editing, banner layout, and translations