electerm vs Secure ShellFish

electerm combines a terminal emulator, graphical SFTP file manager, and remote connection tools in free, open-source software under the MIT License. It supports SSH, SFTP, FTP, Telnet, serial, RDP, VNC, and Spice sessions, with both public-key and password authentication. Connection options include proxies, SSH tunneling, agent forwarding, port forwarding, X11 forwarding, and connection hopping. The SFTP manager lets users open remote files for editing. Its AI assistant supports OpenAI Chat Completions, OpenAI Responses, and Anthropic Messages formats for generating commands and scripts, creating bookmarks, and explaining things. Bookmarks, themes, and quick commands can sync through GitHub or Gitee secret gists, WebDAV, a custom server, or electerm cloud. Desktop builds cover Windows 7+, macOS 10.15+, and Linux across several processor architectures; mobile versions are available for Android, iOS, and HarmonyOS. The browser version works without installation and supports several remote protocols, but lacks local terminal, serial-port, and web-page features. In electerm online, credentials are stored on the server and SSH connections are proxied through it; the site provides no security guarantees.

Secure ShellFish is an SSH and SFTP client for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. It provides a native terminal with native rendering, file-aware drag-and-drop, OSC 52 clipboard synchronization, and inline link detection. Connections expose remote files through the iOS Files app and Mac Finder, where files can be browsed, edited in place, and have permissions changed. Authentication supports passwords, public keys, two-factor authentication, ED25519, ECDSA and RSA keys, YubiKeys, Secure Enclave keys, and short-lived SSH certificates. Server configurations synchronize through iCloud Keychain, and snippets synchronize through iCloud. Shortcuts can upload or download files, list directories, run commands, back up data, or open a terminal. It can launch and destroy Linux virtual machines on DigitalOcean or Hetzner Cloud. Pro features add offline folders, media streaming, tmux controls, widgets, and Live Activities. The Free plan costs nothing.