PiShell: SSH for Raspberry Pi

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About this app

PiShell turns your phone into the control panel for your Raspberry Pi and Linux computers. A real terminal, file manager, services and Docker, live charts and alerts, easy to get started with and powerful when you need it.

FIND YOUR PI AUTOMATICALLY
Scan your Wi-Fi network and instantly see which devices have SSH enabled. The app highlights the ones that are most likely a Raspberry Pi.

FULL TERMINAL
• A real terminal with colours: nano, htop, vim, less and top work
• Quick buttons for temperature, disk, memory, uptime, updates, reboot and shutdown
• Extra keys: Esc, Ctrl, Tab, arrows, Home/End, PgUp/PgDn and F10
• Copy and paste, adjustable text size
• Works with Bluetooth keyboards and Samsung DeX

STATUS PANEL
Model, IP address, CPU temperature, load, memory, disk, uptime and under-voltage warnings.

SECURE AND CONVENIENT
• Log in with your fingerprint: passwords are only saved if you want, encrypted on the phone
• Modern Ed25519 keys created in the app and installed on your Pi with one tap
• Import your own key (RSA, ECDSA or Ed25519)
• Host fingerprints are checked and you are warned if they change

WAKE-ON-LAN
Wake computers on your network with one tap. The MAC address is picked up automatically.

PISHELL PRO (one-time purchase, no subscription)
• SFTP File manager: browse, upload, download and edit files, even root files with sudo
• Services & Docker: see, start, stop and restart services and containers and read their logs
• Live charts for CPU, temperature, memory and network
• Home screen widget with status and temperature
• Alerts when a Pi goes offline or gets too hot
• Unlimited hosts (free version: 1 host)
• Your own quick buttons for the commands you use most

PRIVACY
No ads, no account and no data collection. Everything stays on your phone and the app only connects to the computers you add.

Works with Raspberry Pi OS and most Linux computers running SSH.

PiShell is not affiliated with Raspberry Pi Ltd.

What’s new

New: your SSH session stays open in the background and can be reconnected with one tap. Back up and restore hosts with a password-protected file. PiShell is now also available in German, French and Spanish.