Prompt 2 App Reviews

Look, this SSH Terminal was among the best when it first arrived. But Panic doesnt rest on its laurels, particularly not on Ides o March... Their pursuit of perfection is relentless. Recent updates are NOT JUST BUG FIXES: for instance, ECDSA support is Very Much Appreciated. Re-tooling for iPad Pro has been added, and I look forward to trying it out. Panic have been exemplary Mac and iOS developers for a long time. Based on their track record, I trust them to continue improving this already great app.

We requested, and Panic listened. I was holding out on an iPad pro because development and administration wouldnt have been worth it without updates features. Right on queue, Panics update is making it hard for me to say no!

I was already happy with the 2.0 update. But 2.5 and beyond have really knocked it out of the park with a lot of nice little touches that I dont know I wanted until I saw them. Way to go, Panic.

Ive been a fan of Panic apps for a while, but now with Prompt I can easily SSH into my development environments, turning an iPad Pro into an all-round productivity tool. External keyboard recommended. Thoroughly pleased, and look forward to the updates!

This app has improved greatly since its initial, defective release. I cannot find any flaws with it. It runs better than expected.

Exactly what youd expect from Panic. Polished and thoughtful. Incredibly useful. Buy it.

Great program, works without issues and the latest updates and UI changes are very welcome. The HUGE issue is that you cant sync your servers and creds with iCloud. Yes they offer Panic Sync, but really who wants to have to trust yet another 3rd party organization with the keys to your kingdom. I think it is great that Panic Sync is offered but also offer iCloud sync. I cant imagine it would be that much more coding to support it. Please add iCloud Sync!!

This is the best SSH client on the App Store. Ive bought and tried them all. Thats not saying a whole lot as the competition is pretty bad. Prompt 2 is good, but could be great, if it werent for several annoyances: 1. When switching out of the app and back in (via swipe gestures or alt-tab via keyboard), the "extra keyboard" row will appear and then disappear if you have disabled it in settings. This does bad things to things like vim and tmux as they dont always update to the proper terminal size and it requires some sequence to force a screen re-draw. When youre swapping in and out of the terminal frequently, this goes from a slight annoyance to extreme aggravation. 2. You automatically lose 10% of your screen real estate to a mostly useless "tab bar" across the top. This would be useful if youre managing connections to lots of hosts, but if your use-case is connecting to a single host and using something like screen or tmux, this tab bar is again an annoyance. Screen real-estate on these iOS devices is at a premium. This bar should be an option, or be easily toggled (and please dont make it appear then disappear like the extra keyboard row should you ever implement this). 3. Lastly, and this is minor compared to the first two as at least this doesnt interfere with your actual work - it doesnt support iCloud sync. To be fair, most of its competitors do not either, though some do/did. I pay for lots of iCloud space. I sync everything over it. Just let me use it. Now for the good parts! This does maintain your connections nicely when swapping in and out of the app. Also, it supports some of the custom fonts you may run to show things like git prompts, or fancy tmux/Vim status bars. If you use these things as I do, its so nice that it just works here. Its the only ssh app on iOS to accomplish that. The performance is decent, though I kind of feel like screen redraw performance could be improved a little. Like I said, this is a good app. Just not great. Another thing it has going for it, is a steady stream of updates. Im hoping some of the annoyances described above get addressed in time, and Ill surely be back to update this review if that happens.

I love this app, but a recent update removed the "hide keyboard" button from my iPhone 5S. I saw it still exists on the larger phones (6/6s) but its very difficult to see the screen output without being able to hide the keyboard. Please bring this feature back for iPhone 5s/5se users!

Really great app. Im a happy ssher.