Version 1.1 - Good on ya!  
By: phi.Fibonacci - Aug 22, 2008
Version: 1.1
With the addition of public key authentication and new control keys this app blows the other ssh clients away in my opinion. Contol of font size would be nice but everything is legible. One feature request: allow the public key to be exported off the iPhone. I had to temporarily enable password authenitcation in my sshd config file for the file to be copied from the phone. Would have been nice to be able to just send the public key to a mail account and copy and paste it directly into my "authorized_keys" file.

My Best iTunes Purchase 2 Date!  
By: Midnite Mac - Nov 29, 2008
Version: 2.0
This app beats all other SSH software that I have tried on my iPhone. In addition, if you must connect via SSH, you should truely consider iSSH while you are on-the-go! This app has scored me points at with my friends with Linux machines and most of all with my employer... While I was having lunch with my CIO, I saved the day while connecting to my corporate network via iSSH. (Did I mention that I received a bonus from my CIO after we were completed with lunch)Thank you to the developer's of this project!!!Midnite Mac (.com)

Beat SSH client for a Unix/Linux Admin  
By: Unidentified Coward - Oct 7, 2008
Version: 2.0
This by far the best SSH client made for the iPhone. It also has one of the best and most supportive developers. The feature set and updates are great and each release is superb. Ignore the chimps who think that this as SSH server and complain they cannot connect via scp. Anybody running WinSCP does not need this anyway and and should hit ctrl-alt-delete now.. They are clueless and do not understand that this app will not allow you to do anything that jailbreaking would or does.The ONLY bug which is scheduled to be fixed in the next update (and not really a bug and EVERY SSH APP on the App Store has) is that you have to start the network first by opening a page in safari for example. That is what those green/red status indicators are telling you. If a host does not resolve immediately open safari and load google and then try again. When you come back to the app, all configured connections (that are correct) will go green.This app and the developer support and updates make this a steal at price.

update 1.1 is awesome. but a few things  
By: inmaniac - Aug 22, 2008
Version: 1.1
Update is great. Love the additions. The app now has just about all I need. Love being able to generate keys. But I'd like to be able to recreate them. After creating a pair I am stuck with that one pair forever. I created one with a long Passphrase. This app doesn't have an agent so I have to type my long and complicated Passphrase everytime. So I decided to recreate with no passphrase and there is no recreation. I can get used to it but the font is very small. It would be nice to be able to enlarge a little bit. Better than touchterm? Touchterm truncates some text and doesn't always wrap. If I do an 'ls -l' I can't see all the filenames. In iSSH I can. It wraps the text. I love being able to create muliple simultaneous connections. Awesome. I think iSSH just looks better. I like the swiping arrows at first. But if you are going up the history a bunch then the swiping isn't as easy as the touchterm transparent arrows. One tiny thing. The zinger-soft like in the about doesn't work. It doesn't launch safari. I prefer iSSH to touchterm. I do think this little update war between them is funny. Eventually one of them will end up being perfect in every way.And I can't believe that anyone ever thought pterm was better. I deleted pterm from my phone. iSSH was always better than pterm from day 1.

Just what I wanted.  
By: NonPro - Jul 9, 2009
Version: 3.0
I'm no professional, and don't have any real servers to manage, but I was able to connect easily to my MacBook Pro using both VNC and SSH, and connected just fine to my account on a Linux box at school 200 miles away. On both I was able to edit files using vIM, run commands, and use programs like top and less with non-standard terminal output, so I'd say great app! I get the gut feeling this will come in handy eventually.

This is the app you are looking for  
By: UnixGeeky - Jul 16, 2009
Version: 3.5
Got paged yet again while trying to have a life? Never fear. This app works, it'll get you connected, you'll fix it quick and get back to whatever it is you were doing. Worth way more than the bargain price if you value your time at all.
Plus the author is actively developing it, adding new features and tweaking the interface. He even reads and replies to the mailing list about it. Total bonus.

Very featureful  
By: vanillaknot - Sep 3, 2009
Version: 3.5
Although the operator overloading for e.g. the ctrl/alt keys in the X server is a bit extreme, I find this app extraordinarily useful. My biggest concern now, and it's not much, is that there is unused real estate in the terminal emulator that could enlarge it from 80x24 to 80x32 or so. We're already limited in this small device, don't waste what's available. I'm reading mail in that space and want to see as much at a time as I can. Otherwise this app provides just what I need.

The ONLY terminal for Mac/*nix power users  
By: Nik FrieTeB - Sep 27, 2009
Version: 4.0.4
SSH is a swiss-army knife of remote connectivity, but it fails to live up to this promise on the iPhone, due to Apple's many arbitrary limitations. iSSH bypasses many of these limits by bundling an ever-growing array of utilities into a single application. With SSH, VNC, and remote X11 forwarding, it's the one app you'd need on your iPhone to administer *nix or Mac systems.
As a terminal, it's excellent, although some of the other pure-SSH programs have some interface niceties that iSSH could learn from. Among them is the small buttons to handle common tasks (alt/ctrl/arrow keys, for example) which are easily missed, resulting in faulty output. On the other hand, it has it's "Key Pie" menu which is configurable and gives you easy access to commands that aren't available on the iPhone keyboard. The killer feature as a terminal is its ability to maintain multiple simultaneous sessions, so that you can remain connected to multiple servers and copy/paste or otherwise work between them -- a key task for many emergency sysadm jobs.
iSSH's VNC program is workmanlike, but works well. I have also used Jaadu VNC, and Jaadu has better performance and is, I think, a slightly better designed experience. Unlike all iPhone VNC clients other than Jaadu, iSSH can tunnel VNC sessions through SSH and even through SSH-driven VNC concentrators. If you are willing to tolerate less-than-awesome performance (which you probably are, if you're connecting from a 3" screen anyhow!), iSSH works fine.
Then there's X11 forwarding, and I think iSSH is the only app in the store than can do it. It's quicker by far than VNC and works great. The one place you run into trouble with it is running out of memory. Desktop environments like KDE can really kill it. (The 3GS might do better -- I'm on a 3G) But running a few X11 apps seems to work just great.
So, all in all, it's a great app, and it keeps getting better. Given all its other features, there's no compelling reason to use a different SSH terminal, unless there's interface niceties you just can't live without. As for using it as a remote management program via VNC or X11, iSSH definitely gets the job done, and at a very reasonable price.

Best iPhone SSH app  
By: 00101010 - Nov 22, 2009
Version: 4.0.7
iSSH is head and shoulders above any other SSH app for the iPhone. In addition to what other reviewers have said, I'd like to add that the app is FAST! The other SSH app I used before felt like typing through molases, but iSSH flies - especially over WiFi, and supports SSH compression for slower connections. I am especially excited about some of the technologies on their roadmap - NX protocol support, tunneled web browser, and RDP would make an already great app unbelievable. Zinger-Soft, keep up the fantastic work!

The ONLY terminal for Mac/*nix power users  
By: Nik FrieTeB - Sep 27, 2009
Version: 4.0.4
SSH is a swiss-army knife of remote connectivity, but it fails to live up to this promise on the iPhone, due to Apple's many arbitrary limitations. iSSH bypasses many of these limits by bundling an ever-growing array of utilities into a single application. With SSH, VNC, and remote X11 forwarding, it's the one app you'd need on your iPhone to administer *nix or Mac systems.
As a terminal, it's excellent, although some of the other pure-SSH programs have some interface niceties that iSSH could learn from. Among them is the small buttons to handle common tasks (alt/ctrl/arrow keys, for example) which are easily missed, resulting in faulty output. On the other hand, it has it's "Key Pie" menu which is configurable and gives you easy access to commands that aren't available on the iPhone keyboard. The killer feature as a terminal is its ability to maintain multiple simultaneous sessions, so that you can remain connected to multiple servers and copy/paste or otherwise work between them -- a key task for many emergency sysadm jobs.
iSSH's VNC program is workmanlike, but works well. I have also used Jaadu VNC, and Jaadu has better performance and is, I think, a slightly better designed experience. Unlike all iPhone VNC clients other than Jaadu, iSSH can tunnel VNC sessions through SSH and even through SSH-driven VNC concentrators. If you are willing to tolerate less-than-awesome performance (which you probably are, if you're connecting from a 3" screen anyhow!), iSSH works fine.
Then there's X11 forwarding, and I think iSSH is the only app in the store than can do it. It's quicker by far than VNC and works great. The one place you run into trouble with it is running out of memory. Desktop environments like KDE can really kill it. (The 3GS might do better -- I'm on a 3G) But running a few X11 apps seems to work just great.
So, all in all, it's a great app, and it keeps getting better. Given all its other features, there's no compelling reason to use a different SSH terminal, unless there's interface niceties you just can't live without. As for using it as a remote management program via VNC or X11, iSSH definitely gets the job done, and at a very reasonable price.

Excellent app for those who need SSH on the move  
By: NgBng - 01-Jul-2009
Version: 3.0
I've been using iSSH since 1.0 and it has been a great experience. The author has made considerable improvements since the first version and has more planned.
You're never going to have an easy time of running complex terminal sessions on something that fits in your pocket (believe me, I've been using mobile SSH clients since the early iPAQs!), but iSSH offers a number of really handy features that make this my application of choice for when I need to be talking to a remote UNIX machine away from my laptop.
There is a great user community in the iSSH group on Google, including the author who is responsive and friendly!

Excellent app!  
By: Beach Bum Wizard - 14-Aug-2008
Version: 1.0
I love how this app combines some of the best features of the other apps and expands on them with some really intuitive features(eg. command history by swiping, scrollback AND page pause, unlimited connections for our many clients, etc...)Small recommendations:Adjustable font size (I like the small font but sometimes you need to make sure you get it right)Hit 'return' to display the next line.Well worth the price, nice work!

v1.1 is much more useful  
By: feedbeef - Aug 22, 2008
Version: 1.1
The bug fixes and enhancements present in v1.1 have made this a useful application, and certainly worth the purchase price. As others have commented, it would be nice to have more flexibility with regard to key handling (and the ability to import an existing key would also be a big plus, but without copy and paste functionality this is problematic) and I have seen some problems with lingering connections when the host has rejected the session due to invalid credentials. But overall, a huge improvement over the v1.0 release. Kudos to the developers, and keep up the good work!

why does the shift key stick? plus a few comments...  
By: fwoomp - Aug 14, 2008
Version: 1.0
Why does the shift key act like a caps lock? It should work the same as it does with other applications: after a key is pressed, the shift key should unshift. If I want all-caps, I'll double-tap the shift key.
It would be nice to turn off the buzzing that sometimes happens. As far as I can tell, it's an error bell to indicate some kind of incorrect input.
Being able to change the foreground and background colors would be nice.
Zooming would be nice too, but scrolling and arrow keys (which we already have in there) are more important to me.
Other than that...I like what it does. Nice icon too!

iSSH is a fine app  
By: JosephDP - Aug 13, 2008
Version: 1.0
I heard this was coming and downloaded it as soon as I read the description on both my partner's & my iPhones. As states in the description, two tried are required on the first connect to a host. Host can be by IP or FQDN. Teeny weeny font, even in landscape. But it has landscape mode. Top works but is still difficult to see. Every so often my iPhone vibrates while using this. I've not connected this to any specific event, such as top refreshing, as yet. The "caps button" sticks, that is, press shift & all subsequent letters are in UPPER CASE until shift is pressed again. One can hide the keyboard in landscape. Overall, a very good app on initial impression. Well worth the money.

Jack of all apps!  
By: denniswhitney - Sep 26, 2009
Version: 4.0.4
What a great app! Its got a little bit of everything needed to do any type of remote work. Just the other day I was able to remote into the swtich and configure some ports without having to cross our 800,000sq ft warehouse to my desk! There's only two things that would make this app worth 10 stars in my eyes. 1) The need to do a ping. It would be great to beable to do a ping or traceroute from the app itself instead of having to close it and open a different one. (yeah, yeah, I could do it from the command I'm currently connected to, but it would make things more eaiser). 2) The ability to group your connection list. It would be nice to keep my connections seperate. eg. Work list (a list of all my work connections), Personal list, client list, etc...
I also can't wait for the RDP function, that'll be the iceing on the cake!

I was a Touch Term User (was!)  
By: pottersfreedom - Sep 25, 2009
Version: 4.0.4
I have used Touch Term for quite some time. I paid for it and at the time, it was the only SSH client in town. I was currently looking for a product that would permit VNC within an SSH tunnel. The company could have sold two products (one for a shell and the other for vnc), but they combined the two in one low priced product that is intutive and the interface is more mature than other products like it. Good job.

A positive initial response  
By: Walterson - Aug 14, 2008
Version: 1.0
This seems to work as promised. The modifier keys (including tab) are reasonably done, scrollback is nice, and the arrow keys are nicely implemented. I absolutely need the Esc key for vi, and it would be nice to see the built-in X11 server the developer has listed as soon-to-come. But this definitely fits the bill for a first iteration. One complaint: When in landscape mode, with the keyboard displayed, only the bottom half of the console is shown. It might be nice if the displayed portion of the console followed the cursor. Clearing the screen and attempting to type commands means you can't see the commands you are entering. I can't wait for key support, so I can log into my home machine as well as my office machine!

Excellent application!  
By: halprin - Aug 15, 2008
Version: 1.0
iSSH is an excellent application! It works very well when connecting to my two Macs. The text is indeed small but that's a non-issue for me. The arrow keys work flawlessly and work great as does the scrolling.
Already this is the best ssh application in the App Store, and when the extra features are added and the remaining bugs squashed, it will outshine the others even more! Keep up the good work Zinger-Soft!

I like.  
By: loveturtle - Aug 15, 2008
Version: 1.0
I like this a lot, the developer seems on the ball and the goals on the website are great. In my opinion this app has the most potential out of the rest and the only one I considered buying. To the person who said "if you want a real ssh client jailbreak your phone". Unless there's been some major advancement in mobileterminal in the last month this app is already better even without the desired fixes in 1.1