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SiaShell - SSH & SFTP Client Live

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SSH & SFTP client for server admins. Multi-session tabs, private key support.

Total installs
191
exact · Play shows 100+
Installs / day
—
measured after our second crawl (about a day)
Rating
—★
— ratings · — reviews
Released
5 Jan 2026
9mo ago
Last update
4 Aug 2026
vv0.16.4 · 2mo ago
Countries
—
not checked yet

Install history

exact counter from Google Play
186.6189.9193.3196.620010 Oct11 Oct11 Oct

Installs per day · last 30 days

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Change timeline

No changes recorded yet. We compare every crawl with the previous one and list title, icon, screenshots, description, version, price and availability changes here.

Country availability

Availability has not been checked for this app yet. “Check all countries” looks the app up in about 140 Google Play storefronts and shows where it is live, listed but not installable, or missing — plus any country-specific (custom) store listings.

Top countries

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We estimate where downloads come from using the app’s position in Google Play’s top charts in about 140 countries. This app is not in any chart we have collected yet; the estimate appears as soon as it is.

Top chart positions

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Permissions

7 in 3 groups
1 Sensitive1 Notable5 Routine

What this app can do with your phone

  • Record sound using your phone's microphone
MicrophoneSensitive1

Access to your phone's microphone to record sound

  • Record sound using your phone's microphonerecord audio · RECORD_AUDIO
Wi-Fi connection informationRoutine1

Access to details about Wi-Fi networks your device sees or uses

  • See whether Wi-Fi is on and details of the network you are connected toview Wi-Fi connections · ACCESS_WIFI_STATE
OtherNotable5

Access to miscellaneous device features that don't fit other categories

  • Keep your phone's processor or screen from going to sleep, which can use more batteryprevent device from sleeping · WAKE_LOCK
  • Check whether you are online and whether you use Wi-Fi or mobile dataview network connections · ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE
  • Connect to the internet to load content and send datafull network access · INTERNET
  • Make your phone vibratecontrol vibration · VIBRATE
  • Check with Google Play that you got this app legitimatelyGoogle Play license check · com.android.vending.CHECK_LICENSE

Sensitive = can reach personal data, location, camera/mic or act on your behalf. Notable = changes how your device behaves. Routine = normal for almost every app. Source: Google Play's permission list for all versions of this app.

Store listing

Full description
SiaShell - Professional SSH & SFTP Client for Android Connect to your Linux servers, cloud instances, and network devices securely from your Android phone or tablet. SiaShell is designed for system administrators, developers, and IT professionals who need reliable remote access on the go. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ KEY FEATURES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▶ SSH Terminal • Full-featured terminal emulator with xterm-256color support • Multiple session tabs with automatic numbering for duplicate connections • Special key row (Esc, Tab, Ctrl, Alt, Shift, Arrow keys) • Long-press function keys for auto-repeat input • Customizable fonts and 12+ terminal color themes with live preview • Scrollback buffer up to 50,000 lines with scroll-to-bottom button • Unicode character support with automatic font fallback • Bell sound and vibration alerts ▶ Session Logging • Auto-logging: Automatically save all terminal output to files • Export buffer: Save current scrollback buffer on demand • Built-in log viewer with share and delete options • Logs saved to Downloads/SiaShell/logs ▶ Command History • Persistent history saved across app restarts • Quick access panel for previous commands • Up to 100 commands stored ▶ SFTP File Manager • Browse remote files and directories • Multi-file upload and download with batch transfer • Duplicate file handling with overwrite/skip options • Create, rename, and delete files/folders • View file permissions and timestamps • Seamless switching between terminal and SFTP ▶ Secure Authentication • Password authentication with credential saving • Keyboard-interactive authentication support • Private key authentication (RSA, ECDSA, ED25519) • Extract public key from private key • Key validation on import with passphrase verification • Encrypted key storage with Android Keystore • Host key verification for security ▶ Server Management • Save unlimited server profiles • Quick connect with user@host:port format • Custom port support • Auto-reconnect on connection drop ▶ Customization • 72 languages supported • Light, Dark, and System theme options • Multiple terminal color themes with preview • Adjustable font size and font family • Fullscreen mode for maximum workspace ▶ Productivity Features • Background session support with notifications • Memory warning system with automatic optimization • Keep screen on during sessions • Swipe gestures to switch sessions • Two-finger tap to paste with confirmation • Modifier key toggle or hold modes ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PERFECT FOR ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • System administrators managing Linux servers • DevOps engineers accessing cloud instances (AWS, GCP, Azure) • Web developers working with remote servers • Network engineers configuring devices • Students learning Linux and server administration • Anyone who needs SSH access from mobile ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SECURITY & PRIVACY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Your security is our priority. SiaShell uses industry-standard SSH protocols and stores your credentials in Android's encrypted Keystore. We never collect or transmit your server credentials, passwords, or private keys. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PREMIUM (OPTIONAL) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Remove banner ads with a one-time purchase. All features are available in the free version. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Download SiaShell now and take control of your servers from anywhere! Questions or feedback? Contact us at [email protected]

What's new

- Fixed: SSH private key passphrase encryption now actually applies (previously silently fell back to plaintext for Ed25519 keys). SiaShell is an SSH/SFTP client — no user accounts, no sign-up.

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