Revive SSHSSH sessions that never die
An SSH client for iPhone and Android. Lock the phone, switch networks, let the server reboot — come back to the same session with everything that happened meanwhile.
What it does
Sessions that survive
Phones suspend apps and SSH connections drop. With the free revive-ssh agent on the server, the app resumes the exact same session: every byte you missed arrives once, vim, htop or a coding agent come back on screen, the scrollback stays.
Share or hand over a session
Let a colleague on the same server join your session — with full access or view only — or hand it over: they get their own session with its history and directory. Every device sees where the session is open.
Even after a server restart
If the server reboots or crashes, the session returns with its history and a fresh shell in the same directory.
One QR code to pair
Run revive-ssh on the server and scan the code. The app creates its own key and pins the server's host key from the QR code. No copying keys, no new ports — it works over your existing sshd.
Phone and desktop, one session
Start a long job at your desk, check it on the phone, continue at the desk with revive-ssh connect. The screen size follows whoever typed last.
Your sessions in a browser, for a while
Open get.vendo.bot/revive-ssh/web on any computer and let that browser tab in from your phone for 1–24 hours, view only if you like. The tab gets your sessions and nothing else: no shell beside them, a key that never leaves the tab, cut off from the phone at any time. New in the beta.
Notifications
A push when a long command finishes while you are away, when Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Antigravity, Cursor, opencode or Aider finishes or asks for permission, or from your own scripts: revive-ssh notify "done". The text is end-to-end encrypted: our relay, Apple and Google never see it.
A real SSH client, agent optional
Connect to any SSH server with a password or a device key, optionally attaching to tmux. Plain SSH is free, with unlimited servers.
A keyboard that works
Esc, Ctrl, Alt, Tab, arrows, Home/End, PgUp/PgDn, F1–F12 and ^C one tap away; scrolling that works inside tmux too.
Security first
Pinned host keys; passwords and keys in the system's secure storage; the agent runs as a regular user, refuses to run as root and opens no ports; agent updates are signed and verified before they run. No ads, no tracking.
The server agent
One static binary for Linux (amd64, arm64), installed as a regular user. Optional: plain SSH works without it.
curl -fsSL https://get.vendo.bot/revive-ssh/install.sh | sh
revive-ssh # menu; first run shows the QR codeapt / dnf / zypper · Agent guide: commands, notifications, repositories
Pricing
Plain SSH is free. Revive SSH Pro — persistent sessions through the agent, QR pairing, SFTP and port forwarding — is a yearly subscription with a 14-day free trial, a monthly subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase.