Two problems for me:
- I want my iPhone terminal to be built for use w/ external keyboard.
- While I really like pay-once a use-often app like a terminal you really want to try before you buy. But maybe Apples general refund-if-not-satisfied is still a thing and enough?
Love that they copied the bar above the keyboard. Even with android custom keyboard that was a great feature, on IOS that's essential.
oh, it's closed source. and lazygit (the least terminal based of all cli tools) being their inapiration doesn't inspire much confidence in long term :(
I actually kinda like working on my ipad this way (ssh’d into dev box) it’s not really distracting somehow and not having full jetbrains etc makes for a different kinda session.
shrug
Any real different than Terminus? That seemed to be the latest and greatest last I was shopping for an iOS SSH client.
Also, maybe just because its new (I dont realy know how App Store search works) but searching "Echo" and "Echo SSH" returned way too many Amazon/Alexa related apps, and then many other terminals before yours.
But using the ssh client in iSH to interact with TUI interfaces is a less than optimal experience. Many nice UI affordances that something like Terminus provides are lacking. Like using swipes as input, key management tools, or using location monitoring as a trick to keep it running in the background. Definitely excited to check out this new Echo client.
I spent a few hours trying to get GitHub Copilot CLI or Claude Code installed only to discover that the version of Node is pegged to 14, which prohibits installation of several of these tools via NPM.
Has anyone had success with this? I'd love to see the packages updated to support later versions
A few requests:
- In Secure Shellfish, I love that if iOS suspends it and I reopen it, it just does `tmux attach` on the last host automatically. Echo has the "startup command", but seems I still have to manually click on the last host I used to resume. Perhaps we can get an option to auto-reconnect to the last host? (My work firewall blocks Mosh so I need to do the ssh-and-attach dance when iOS kills the app.)
- When using Emacs on iOS, it would be great to be able to save keychords like `C-x C-s` or `M-x` somewhere, for example on the virtual keyboard top row. (I would be ecstatic if I could use the volume buttons as Ctrl and Meta, but I guess that’s more complicated to do.)
As someone else said though, hardware keyboard support on iOS is something that I would really want as I regularly use ShellFish on my iPhone with a USB-C keyboard.
Something that actually matters more to me is font support. I use nerd fonts for my zsh prompt, so an app that doesn't support them is a hard sell. Are custom fonts supported, or at least on the roadmap?
Additionally I just want clarification on your business model. Once I pay now I will get all future updates for free or might I have to pay for them?
I think this really needs the ability to generate SSH keys on the secure enclave, like Secretive[1] does on macOS.
I use Tailscale SSH, so one very small bit of feedback is that it took me a second to realize I just needed to put a dummy password in to actually get to the connection.
mr_o47•1h ago