ServerCat - SSH Terminal
reviews and complaints

Wow I love this app so much. No more typing top or bmon or anything else to check on the vitals of my raspberry pi node. So great! I bought the full version without needing it just from gratitude. A super cool and very useful tool.

I especially like how quick and responsive the app feels. I also appreciate the server monitoring graphs. I will subscribe. Please, please add mosh support soon. Do that and I will use this exclusively and continue to sing your praises!

I wish I had read their website first: “FreeBSD/***?
ServerCat relies on the Linux kernel's /proc subsystem for most of its data, and is temporarily unable to display all metrics on other platforms”

Will there be. A update to fix this? Or ?

This is not a review. Since There is no contact info or help section on the developer page I am asking a question here.

Does this app support ssh login with the yubikey nfc? If not, can you implement support for it? I would like to know before I buy this app.

This is a great tool for developers to check there server status on-the-go. However, a major downside is that it does not support iPadOS natively, which is a bummer since this tool will be even more useful on iPad.

Hope this can be rolled-out in the future release.

This docket management tool looks solid and I see that the developer took their other Linux automation app, HyperApp, off the App Store (still have it downloaded). Is this meant as a pseudo-equivalent functionality to HyperApp? / will their be continued support for the other application?

The description says that it works with iPad; however, I can only get it to work on my iPhone. On the iPad, it just shows ‘Connection Failed’ for each server. The FAQ and Docs do not mention how to resolve this. This is a paid app and to know it doesn’t work on the iPad is a real disappointment.

Amazing app, gui is superb, gives detailed info on cpu usage, memory usage, and internet usage. Almost perfect, just doesn't show the system temperature. I am currently having to use two ssh apps for my machine using this one as the main and a second app just to monitor temps. This app would be 5 stars with temperature monitoring

This is a nice app. The syncing of private keys keys via cloud drive for a 1 time lifetime fee is nice compared to the other apps. But using tmux doesn’t work. The bind keys don’t register with the CTRL key. Also, it would be great if we could install our own fonts! My Powerline10k themes don’t work because the font has to be changed to a p10k font.

I’ve used this app for years now. What frustrates me so much is that it’s so close to being useful. It’s only missing one little thing for me to commit to purchasing it.
The thing that sets this app apart from other SSH apps is its monitoring view. It’s literally right there when you open the app. It would be PERFECT as a home screen widget. It’s even widget sized already! Just make it a widget already!

Like way to many iOS apps that run on iPadOS it only does Portrait mode for the screen. Although some with iPads will do Portrait mode, I would imagine the majority use the iPad in a folio with a keyboard which is Landscape mode.

As soon as I open an app that doesn’t do Landscape, I stop. The developer needs to know their audience. This looks like a good app, although many of what this app does can be done with PiHelper app, and for free or with a $1 donation if your so inclined.

Developer, make a proper iPadOS App, make it do Landscape, and I will reinstall this app and try it again. Till then, I will keep using PiHelper app.

I’ve been using this app for several months now, and I gotta say it’s my go-to for monitoring my server cluster I have at home.

I was surprised to see that if I’m running docker containers on my system, ServerCat will populate them in the server’s information pane which is helpful to get some basic info on containers I have running.

Some features I wish we had:

-Being able to save docker instances that are already running by reading env files and storing them in the “Pods” section, so we can easily kill, change, and start container instances.

-Being able to change “Pods” to “Containers” if we are not using Kubernetes instances.

-Configuring a VPN inside of ServerCat so we can just open ServerCat, connect to the VPN, and monitor servers without first going into iPhone/iPad settings and switching on VPN.

-A desktop app would be incredible, even just a port of the iPad version to MacOS would be amazing.

-Snippets are great, but feel a little clunky the way I use them. I use snippets to store and run common commands on my servers, but I wish each server had its own “Snippets” button so I wouldn’t have to pick a snippet, and then a server constantly. Maybe even make it so a snippet can be created, and add servers that can use that snippet, and then each server in the servers tab with access to that snippet would have a new “snippets” button with snippets that server can use.

-Maybe a way to configure how information appears in the server information tab? I can see net traffic and disk usage, but not really in a way that’s easy for me to understand. It would be nice to set variables for those to change what is showing or what units it uses, or even just percentages of ram/disk usage. Some toggles of what shows up in the rings would be fantastic.

-Please, PLEASE, let us choose Celsius or Fahrenheit for server core temps. I’m much more used to Celsius for these things over Fahrenheit.

-I’m sure I’ll think of more over time.

But this app is really fantastic. It’s a great, visual, and easy to use application for monitoring multiple servers.

Thank you!

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Good for one device, unfortunately all 35 servers even after being premium member are not syncing accross my devices.

When FASTClip is pasted to the SSH command, the first letter of FASTClip is repeated, causing the command to be unavailable

I have purchased the professional version, but if I change my ID to another, I can't use the professional version's features.

Auto closes when in use. Added Linux hosts to manage from, and app seems to auto close/crash upon navigating through the app from M1 ipad 12.9. I have tried to remove and re-install and issue persists.