Conduit: SSH, Mosh & SFTP

Conduit is a local-first SSH, Mosh, and SFTP client for iPhone.

It is built for people who need to reach real machines from a phone without creating an account, syncing credentials through a service, or paying a subscription just to open a shell.

Use Conduit to connect to your own servers, workstations, homelab machines, VPS instances, and development environments from a mobile terminal.

Features:

• SSH terminal sessions

• Password, private key, and hardware security key (FIDO2) authentication

• Hardware security key auth over NFC, tested with YubiKey

• SSH agent forwarding to reach further hosts from a machine you connect to

• Per-host tmux integration with auto attach/create, start directories, prefix key selection, action shortcuts, and scrollback mode.

• Experimental Mosh roaming for unreliable mobile networks

• SFTP file browsing and export

• Saved machine profiles with tags and search

• Local credential and trusted host key storage

• Trusted host key prompts and key management

• Optional app lock with device authentication

• Tabbed terminal workspace

• Mobile-friendly modifier, navigation, and function keys

• Fullscreen terminal mode

• Built-in terminal themes

With SSH agent forwarding, a host you connect to can use your key to authenticate onward to other machines, without copying private keys to the server. Forwarded hardware keys stay protected: every onward signature still requires your PIN and a physical tap.

Conduit does not require a Conduit account and does not use a Conduit sync service. Saved connection profiles, credentials, and trusted host keys are stored on your device using platform secure storage.

Conduit is free and open-source software licensed under the Apache License 2.0. Source code is available at github.com/gwitko/Conduit.

Mosh requires mosh-server on the remote host and reachable UDP ports. Predictive echo is marked as experimental.

You can support the project here: https://ko-fi.com/gwitko