Shellvana Get the app
Shellvana app icon: a gold circle enclosing a shell prompt SSH client for iOS and Android

SSH, rendered as reading.

Terminal output becomes prose you can read on a phone. Tables, diffs, and anything column-aligned stay exact, to the character.

Get it onGoogle Play Download on theApp Store

Launching soon on both stores.

Raw terminal, 80 columns

the classifier decides per block whether output may reflow or must keep its exact column spacing, because a table that reflows stops being a table and a diff that reflows stops being readable at all on a narrow screen. every block is judged on its own: prose may be rewrapped to the width of the phone, while a table, a diff or any column-aligned output is held at the spacing the server actually sent, to the character.

Shellvana, same bytes

The classifier decides per block whether output may reflow or must keep its exact column spacing. Prose is rewrapped to the phone. A table, a diff, or any aligned output is held to the character.

On the phone

Every screen is a real session.

Captures from a Pixel 7 connected to a live server. Nothing here is a mockup.

A Claude Code answer crushed into a raw 80-column terminal grid, with lines broken mid-word.
The 80-column gridWhat every other client shows you on a phone.
The same answer reflowed into large serif prose, with the command shown as a chat bubble above it.
The same answer, reflowedClaude Code's reply as prose you can actually read.
A coloured git diff hunk in monospace, every plus and minus aligned in its own column.
Diffs stay alignedEvery plus and minus in its column, spacing untouched.
Rendered Markdown showing a heading, an aligned table, and a shell code block.
Markdown kept intactHeadings, aligned tables, and code blocks.
htop running live in Shellvana with its colour bars and function-key footer intact.
Real TUIs runvim, htop, tmux, and zellij behave normally.
The reading sheet showing size chips and a font list with live previews of Newsreader, Lora, and Inter.
Set the size and fontLive previews, changed mid-session.
Terminal AI agents

Built to read Claude Code.

Command-line coding assistants draw themselves as full-screen terminal interfaces. They repaint lines in place, wrap text at their own width, and surround answers with banners, spinners, and status footers.

Shellvana separates each answer into its own message, reflows text the agent wrapped at its own width, keeps inline code in monospace, and leaves the banners and spinners out of the readable view. Ask a question on your phone and read the answer as prose.

Shellvana showing a Claude Code answer as flowing serif text, with the prompt above it in a bubble.
Fidelity

Reflow never touches your columns.

Shellvana negotiates a fixed terminal size with the server, then judges every block on its own. Paragraphs reflow into proportional type sized for a phone. Tables, diffs, tree output, and anything column-aligned stay in monospace at their original spacing.

The raw grid is always one tap away, so the exact bytes the server sent are never more than a gesture from view.

A git diff in Shellvana with added lines in green and removed lines in red, columns perfectly aligned.
Your data

No account. No sign-up. No telemetry.

Shellvana makes no network connection except the SSH connection you ask for, directly to the server you configured. There is no analytics, advertising, or crash-reporting library in the app.

  • Transcripts are encrypted on the device with SQLCipher, keyed from the platform secure store.
  • The app is excluded from operating-system backup, so nothing lands in iCloud or Android backup.
  • Private keys live in the iOS Keychain or the Android Keystore. Keys generated in the Secure Enclave or StrongBox cannot leave the device at all.
  • Any host can require Face ID, Touch ID, or a device unlock before its session opens.
  • Host keys are pinned on first connection, with a warning if one ever changes.
  • Screenshots and app-switcher previews of a session are blocked by default.
  • Transcripts older than 30 days delete themselves. Clear one host or all of them whenever you want.
The SSH keys screen showing a hardware-backed ECDSA key labelled Hardware-backed TEE with unlock required to sign.
Free and Pro

The readability is not the paid part.

Free

Everything below, always

  • One live session
  • Password and key authentication
  • Host profiles
  • The complete readable rendering, with colour and Markdown

Pro

$19.99 USD once. No subscription.

  • Four concurrent sessions in a named binder rail
  • Hardware-backed key authentication
  • The additional reading fonts
  • Incognito sessions that write no transcript at all
Requirements

Any host running standard sshd.

Nothing to install on the server. Portrait or landscape.

Get it onGoogle Play Download on theApp Store

Launching soon on both stores.