It looks really nice and clean. It's an SSH app though, right, so I would need a server to remote into?
Show HN: Echo, an iOS SSH+mosh client built on Ghostty
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#42Some brutal reviews on the iOS app store suggesting RSA keys do not work?
Well, the app description does say "modern". No modern app should be using rsa keys. ssh-rsa was deprecated in OpenSSH in 2020 https://www.openssh.org/txt/release-8.2
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#43This is pretty awesome, and at a $3 price point is an auto purchase for me! As someone else said though, hardware keyboard support on iOS is something that I would really want as I regularly use ShellFish on my iPhone with a USB-C keyboard. Something that actually matters more to me is font support. I use nerd fonts for my zsh prompt, so an app that doesn't support them is a hard sell. Are custom fonts supported, or…
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#44How does it compare to the (extremely expensive) Prompt 3 app? I'm still stuck with Prompt 2 which I now don't even see on the App store anymore. Been waiting for a decent non-subscription based alternative
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#45It looks really nice and clean. It's an SSH app though, right, so I would need a server to remote into?
Something running an SSH server service, yes.
A decade plus ago, you could ssh into localhost on iOS, but that got nipped in the bud with sandboxing.
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#46Neat, it's staggering that there hasn't been a good non-subscription option for a simple utility like this for iOS. I've used Termius for a while, but it pushes a subscription and AI features pretty hard. I think this really needs the ability to generate SSH keys on the secure enclave, like Secretive[1] does on macOS. [1] https://secretive.dev/
There used to be a couple non-subscription ones. I’m still using Prompt 2, but of course it’s been superseded by the subscription-bound Prompt 3 on the App Store for some time now.
+1 in the same boat here. Only subscription I'm paying now is Signal backups, I simply can't justify the one-time price of 100$ they charge for Prompt 3
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#47Neat, it's staggering that there hasn't been a good non-subscription option for a simple utility like this for iOS. I've used Termius for a while, but it pushes a subscription and AI features pretty hard. I think this really needs the ability to generate SSH keys on the secure enclave, like Secretive[1] does on macOS. [1] https://secretive.dev/
Thanks! Agree - Secure Enclave support with key generation has been a common feature request. Definitely on the roadmap.
Please add fido auth for ssh.
My pipe dream is this + nixpkgs distribution for wasm or something.
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#48Is there a way to connect to non-standard SSH port that i’m missing?
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#49Is there a way to connect to non-standard SSH port that i’m missing?
At a minimum, I'd expect a networking program named "echo" to be able to talk to port 7...
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#50Does it have the same issue with key repeat? It's a long standing iOS bug, but some apps seem to fix it (somehow). Without the fix, vim ends up being essentially unusable since I can't press and hold on the cursor movement keys. iSH, for example, hits the bug and it severely limits the usefulness of the app.