iPhone and iPad

AirSCP is on iPhone and iPad too. Save your servers, copy files between a server and your device, type commands in a terminal and see how a Linux server is doing, wherever you are. It needs iOS 26 or iPadOS 26, or later. Get it from the App Store.

The tabs

Tab What it is for
Servers Add your servers and S3 storage, and connect. Open servers show their CPU, memory and disk.
Files Two sides: a server, and On iPhone (on an iPad, On iPad), AirSCP’s own folder on your device. Copy between them.
Terminal Type commands on an open server.
Transfers The files being copied, and those copied.
Search (the magnifying glass) Find a server, a command you ran before, or a file. Run a command on several servers.

On an iPad, the tabs can be a sidebar, and each open server gets a workspace of its own. See iPad and iPhone Duo.

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How it differs from the Mac

  • iPhone and iPad have no ~/.ssh folder. So AirSCP reads no ssh config and uses no ssh agent. Your keys are in the Keychain on the device, and the servers you trust are in AirSCP’s own list.
  • The hosts you saved on your Mac don’t come over. Add your servers on the iPhone or iPad too.
  • When you copy a file, AirSCP checks the copy against the original (SHA-256). There is nothing to turn on.
  • On iPhone takes the place of the Mac’s This Mac.

Not on iPhone and iPad yet

These are in AirSCP for Mac only:

  • Remote Desktop (Windows), tunnels, Synchronize, Disk Usage and the Certificate Manager.
  • AI agents (MCP), Shortcuts, Siri and Apple Intelligence.
  • Importing hosts (from ~/.ssh/config, WinSCP or a Mac’s Export Hosts…) and S3 profiles (~/.aws).
  • Proxies, browsing as root (sudo), and other ssh options.
  • Some commands of the Mac’s Files tab: Get Info, permissions, favourites, Compare Folders, extracting archives and downloading as one archive.
  • Snippets and the Command Log.
  • Security keys (FIDO), OpenSSH certificates, and PuTTY keys of version 3 with a passphrase.

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