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, user-friendly app. Have had no issues connecting or staying connected. The stay connected setting is a godsend tbh, makes rebooting my Pi less tedious because I no longer have to ssh into my Pi every time after rebooting. HIGHLY RECOMEND, will be one of the first apps to be installed on future phones I may get. NOTE: images on the Play Store appear to be outdated. The UI has been updated with a more "eye friendly" design since they uploaded the photos

Recently I needed to download my public ed25519 key. Using the menu would only let me get at the private key. The app has been in the phone for years. I just figured it slipped a bit or something so I un-installed and reinstalled the app. Now I can't create ed25519 keys any more, the option fails. This was probably the best Android app ever until now. You need to fix this Kenny.

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.

What’s new

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