Most Windows setups end up as a terminal in one app, a file transfer tool in another and a monitoring tab in the browser. PocketCmd is all three: native SSH on libssh2, a full SFTP manager, dashboards over the connection you already have — drawn by a C renderer with FreeType and HarfBuzz, not by a bundled browser.
Free for one server. No account, no card, no catch.
A real SFTP file manager with POSIX permissions, symlinks, search and bookmarks, sitting next to the terminal rather than in a second program — plus "terminal here" from any folder, and remote locations exposed to Explorer so other apps can open files off a server.
On a machine with TPM 2.0 the device vault key is generated in the chip and stays there, with your app password mixed in through Argon2id. Where there is no usable TPM the app says so plainly in its own security audit rather than reporting a hardware key it does not have.
The .msix installs and upgrades in place, carrying your vault, servers, keys and settings across versions. Storage is one SQLCipher database rather than a scattering of config files, so there is a single thing to back up and a single thing to migrate.
The SSH, Mosh and Eternal Terminal clients are native C and C++ reached over FFI, and the terminal is parsed by libvterm and drawn by our own renderer. Nothing here shells out to WSL or ships a copy of Chromium to paint text.
A handful of capabilities depend on what the operating system hands us. Rather than scatter them through the page and qualify them in the footnotes, here is the honest split for Windows.
One codebase with a native C core builds all five platforms, so the parts that matter are not a tier list. These are identical on your PC and on everything else you run it on.
More in the general FAQ and the documentation.
No. The SSH, Mosh and Eternal Terminal clients are native code running inside the app, and the terminal is our own renderer. WSL is not involved at any point.
No. The UI is Flutter and everything underneath it — the protocols, the terminal parsing, the rendering — is a native C/C++ core reached over FFI. There is no bundled browser engine drawing the terminal.
No. The .msix upgrades in place and your vault, saved servers, keys and settings carry across. Everything lives in one encrypted SQLCipher database, so it is also one file to back up.
The app still works and the vault is still encrypted, but the device key is a software key rather than a hardware-sealed one. PocketCmd reports that honestly in its device key self-check instead of claiming hardware backing it cannot prove.
A Pro license code covers three devices at once, on any mix of the five.
Free for one server, with no account and no time limit. Pro lifts the limits.