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ShellPilot

Manage Your Server from Your Phone

When something breaks and you're not at your desk, ShellPilot puts your servers in your pocket. Connect over SSH, run the commands you need, and get your infrastructure back to healthy — from anywhere.

Free on Google Play

Servers don't wait for you to be at a laptop. An alert fires during dinner, a deploy needs a restart on the weekend, a disk fills up overnight. ShellPilot is built for those moments: a full SSH client that lets you actually administer Linux servers from an Android phone, not just peek at a dashboard.

The common admin tasks are all within reach. Restart a stuck service with systemctl, check what's eating CPU with htop, free up space by clearing old logs, reload nginx after a config change, or run a quick database query to confirm data looks right. Because it's a real terminal, anything you'd type at a desk works here too.

Container workflows are first-class. Connect to a Docker host, run docker ps to see what's running, restart a container, tail its logs, or exec into it for a closer look. The extended keyboard gives you the pipe, slash, and Tab keys that container and shell commands lean on constantly.

Multiple servers stay organized through saved profiles — staging, production, a personal VPS — each one tap away with its own credentials. Combined with SFTP for pulling configs and logs onto your phone, ShellPilot covers the realistic shape of incident response and routine maintenance away from the office.

What you get

Full SSH terminal for real server administration

Restart services, reload configs, manage processes

Docker workflows — ps, restart, logs, exec

Tail and review logs on the spot

Run database queries over SSH

Multiple saved server profiles (staging, prod, VPS)

Built-in SFTP to pull and push files

Password and SSH key authentication

Fingerprint lock to protect access

Works over Wi-Fi and mobile data

How to manage a server from your phone

1
Install ShellPilot
Download ShellPilot free from Google Play to administer your servers over SSH.
2
Add your servers
Create a profile for each host with its address, port, username, and password or SSH key.
3
Connect when needed
Tap a saved profile to open a terminal session the moment an alert or task comes up.
4
Run admin commands
Restart services, check Docker, tail logs, or query a database — exactly as you would at a desk.

Who uses ShellPilot

Respond to a 2am alert

Monitoring pings your phone. Open the production profile, find the problem with htop and journalctl, restart the service, and confirm recovery — without finding a laptop.

Restart a Docker container

A container is misbehaving. Run docker ps, docker restart, then tail its logs to verify it came back clean.

Free up a full disk

Disk usage alert overnight. SSH in, find the offender with ncdu, clear old logs, and you're back under threshold.

Frequently asked questions

Can I really administer a Linux server from a phone?

Yes. ShellPilot is a full SSH client with a real terminal, so any command you'd run at a desk — systemctl, docker, journalctl, database CLIs — works the same from your phone.

Does it handle Docker containers?

Yes. Over an SSH session you can run docker ps, restart containers, tail their logs, and exec into them, with the extended keyboard providing the pipe and Tab keys those commands need.

Can I manage more than one server?

Yes. You can save a separate profile for each server — staging, production, a personal VPS — and connect to any of them in one tap.

Is it secure?

Connections use the SSH protocol with password or private-key authentication, and you can lock the app itself behind fingerprint authentication.