Prompt 2 Reviews – Page 15
5/5 rating based on 165 reviews. Read all reviews for Prompt 2 for iPhone.
Prompt 2 is paid iOS app published by Panic, Inc.
Much improved
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This app has improved greatly since its initial, defective release. I cannot find any flaws with it. It runs better than expected.
Great
Jbwhaley
Exactly what you'd expect from Panic. Polished and thoughtful. Incredibly useful. Buy it.
Missing iCloud Sync
ikanspelwel
Great program, works without issues and the latest updates and UI changes are very welcome. The HUGE issue is that you can't 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 can't imagine it would be that much more coding to support it. Please add iCloud Sync!!
Close to great
chardros
This is the best SSH client on the App Store. I've bought and tried them all. That's not saying a whole lot as the competition is pretty bad. Prompt 2 is good, but could be great, if it weren't 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 don't always update to the proper terminal size and it requires some sequence to force a screen re-draw. When you're 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 you're 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 don't 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 doesn't interfere with your actual work - it doesn't support iCloud sync. To be fair, most of it's 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, it's so nice that it just works here. It's 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. I'm hoping some of the annoyances described above get addressed in time, and I'll surely be back to update this review if that happens.
Great App, but recent update removed feature
clueo8
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 it's very difficult to see the screen output without being able to hide the keyboard. Please bring this feature back for iPhone 5s/5se users!
Best SSH app; needs minor touch up!
Modest Go player
I really like this SSH app. It tries to do only the necessities and I think it overall does that very well. I have several suggestions that I'm certain others also have: 1. The color themes are very low contrast compared to what I'd prefer. Just try weechat with either of the dark themes - the channel name on the bottom bar is not very readable. On my own computer I used Gnome Terminal's tango color scheme. 2. Prompt 2 hides the onscreen keyboard on app switch, then shows the onscreen keyboard upon return to Prompt 2. When using curses apps this triggers multiple resizes, effectively making the SSH session unusable for a few seconds upon switching back to Prompt 2. This behavior is much more obvious when using tmux over a slow connection. 3. The top bar is always visible when in landscape mode on the iPhone 6+, halving the total possible vertical height thought possible. 4. Maybe I missed something, but for some weird reason Prompt 2 insists on running bash on login, which is completely irresponsible since SSH is used outside of UNIX-likes; not to mention not everybody uses bash on UNIX-likes. Can't Prompt 2 simply default to allowing the login shell to run?
Best SSH client for iOS
androook
This is the only ssh client with polish and an amazing feature set to match.
Great SSH terminal emulator
EddyGeez!
This is my current favorite SSH client for iOS. Great design and good functionality. Great enhancement in recent updates that allow selecting a font size from 7-24pt instead of being limited to just Small / Medium / Large. Plus, no more issues running `top`. Yay. It's nice that you can export the private key for generated keys. It's always good to not feel "locked in", especially for something like SSH keys. To sync devices, Panic does make you sign up for their own "Panic Sync" service instead of just using the iCloud Drive everybody already has. I'd like to at least see iCloud as an option. Finally, I'd like to see support for port forwarding in a future release, especially if Panic can figure out some way to keep the session active while in the background...