Pockterm
John Hancock Developer Tools iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Pockterm is a free Developer Tools app for iPhone and iPad by John Hancock. Requires iOS 18.0. Updated October 24, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 13 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 24
- 2026 · v1.9.2
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About Pockterm
Pockterm is a native SSH and SFTP client built for iPhone. Free and open source. CONNECT - SSH into your servers with passwords or Ed25519/RSA keys - Trusted host-key verification warns you if a server's key ever changes - Multiple live sessions; minimize one and pick it back up from the tab bar BIG SCREEN - Plug in video glasses like VITURE, or a monitor or TV, and the terminal fills that screen - Your phone keeps the keyboard and key bar, and shows the session's files where the terminal was - Its own text size for the glasses, a Paste button, and PgUp/PgDn through the scrollback MANAGE - Organize hosts into groups - Save reusable command snippets - Generate and store SSH keys in the iOS Keychain - Set up local and remote port forwards TRANSFER - Browse, upload, and download files over SFTP - Upload from Files, iCloud Drive or your photo library, several files at once AI ASSISTANT (optional) - Ask an AI assistant about terminal output and get suggested commands - Bring your own API key: Anthropic, OpenAI, OpenRouter, or Hugging Face - Off by default; you're told which provider receives data before anything is sent PRIVACY - No account, no Pockterm servers, no tracking or analytics - Credentials and keys live in the iOS Keychain - Your connection data stays on your device OPEN SOURCE - The full source is on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 licence: github.com/jhancock1975/pockterm
What’s new
Version 1.9.2 · Updated October 24, 2026
Improvements • Messages that still showed in English in the other languages are now translated: the warning when a server's host key changes, credential errors on connect, the AI Assistant's errors, and some theme and font names. • Updated the libraries Pockterm is built on.
App privacy
The developer, John Hancock, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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