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

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.

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.

No longer usable for me. Numbers from keyboard don't work any longer, so to enter any number I need to use the "send to terminal" popup. Also every time I exit a connection, it asks me if I want to reconnect, additional to the "are you sure you want to disconnect?" Update: Issue was fixed pretty quick. Thank you for making it work again.

What's new

Features:
• Downloadable language packs for a smaller app size
• Import private keys from clipboard
• Source address field for port forwards
• Context menu paste in console

Fixes:
• Huge terminal rendering performance boost
• Fixed Telnet connection crashes
• Fixed console history scroll drifting
• Fixed double-press and IME Enter key bugs
• Added background connection loss warnings