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Conduit

Phone terminal for reaching servers

WHO USES ITServer operators · Security-key users · Android users

Install to use

SSH, Mosh, SFTP terminal for Android and iOS with no account; hardware keys over USB/NFC

★ 379▲ 3 HN

379 stars · checked on GitHub GitHub check 30 h late · no 7-day star increase observed (GH Archive) (as of ) · 3 Show HN points observed

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Conduit on a phone — an SSH terminal running nvim, with the Esc, Ctrl, Alt, Tab and arrow key row above the keyboard
Conduit on a phone — an SSH terminal running nvim, with the Esc, Ctrl, Alt, Tab and arrow key row above the keyboard
Conduit on a phone — an SSH terminal running nvim, with the Esc, Ctrl, Alt, Tab and arrow key row above the keyboard
Conduit on a phone — an SSH terminal running nvim, with the Esc, Ctrl, Alt, Tab and arrow key row above the keyboard

TESIGN TAKE

A phone terminal with hardware-key auth and Mosh, no account or subscription attached, with the source under Apache-2.0.

INSTALL

AT A GLANCE

LICENSE
Apache-2.0
USAGE
Commercial use, redistribution OK. Keep notices; mark changes.
LANGUAGE
Dart
PLATFORM
android · ios
ACTIVITY
last commit 54 days ago () · latest release v1.4.14 () · 33 releases
COMMUNITY
3 contributors · 36 open issues (incl. PRs) · made by: an individual
SOURCES
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WHY IT MATTERS

Hosts, keys and trusted fingerprints stay on the device — no account, no cloud sync, no subscription. Mosh runs on dart_mosh, a clean-room Dart implementation, so a session survives Wi-Fi drops and cellular handoffs; ed25519-sk and ecdsa-sk FIDO keys work over USB and NFC on Android and NFC on iOS (tested with YubiKey). On Android arm64 it can also open a local Arch Linux shell, with pacman, through proot — no server involved.

BUILD FROM THIS

  • Per-host tmux auto-attach plus run-on-connect snippets make a phone-side server check routine; hardware-key auth with agent forwarding covers a jump-host workflow.

WHO IT'S FOR

Server operators
SSH/Mosh on the move with tmux auto-attach
Security-key users
SSH auth from a phone with YubiKey or other FIDO keys
Android users
a local Arch Linux shell with pacman, no server needed

START IN 5 MINUTES

# 1. App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6780054869
# 2. Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gwitko.conduit
# 3. F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.gwitko.conduit/ (or track GitHub releases with Obtainium)
# 4. Add a machine in the app, import a private key from a file or generate an ed25519 key on device, then connect
# (No shell install commands in the README — store-distributed)

CAVEATS

  • Conduit's own code is Apache-2.0. Android builds with the local shell redistribute Termux-packaged third-party binaries (proot and others) under their own licences, GPL/LGPL included, listed in THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md. The local Arch Linux shell is Android arm64 only, not iOS. The Google Play build omits the /mnt/android shared-storage mount (all-files permission). iOS hardware keys are NFC only. The app is free per the homepage. Last push 2026-07-24.

RECEIPT

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Conduit on a phone — an SSH terminal running nvim, with the Esc, Ctrl, Alt, Tab and arrow key row above the keyboard
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