Burrow

SSH for iPhone and iPad

Your whole lab in your pocket.

An SSH app at its core, with the add-ons you choose.

Coming soon to iPhone and iPad

The Files add-on browsing a folder on a remote host
The Git add-on showing unstaged changes and a diff
The Remote Desktop add-on with a full keyboard

The core

SSH, done properly

The free core is a small, serious SSH client. It is useful on its own and assumes nothing about your lab.

Secure Enclave keysPrivate keys are generated on the device and never leave it.
Host-key pinningKnow it is the machine you meant, and be told when that changes.
A real terminalExtra-keys row for Esc, Tab, Ctrl and arrows, plus offline bash help.
Jump routes and port forwardingReach hosts behind a bastion and tunnel the ports you need.

Add-ons

Turn on only what you need.

Each add-on explains itself before you enable it, and you can switch it on per app and per host. Anything you leave off stays off.

  • Remote Desktop

    See and drive the screen, tunnelled over SSH.

    • VNC for Macs, RDP for Windows and GNOME
    • Full keyboard, trackpad modes, two-way clipboard
    • Web UIs and a pinnable toolbar

    You'd want this if you need to fix a dialog on a headless Mac.

  • Containers

    One view of every container on every host.

    • Portainer or the Docker API
    • Start, stop, restart, logs and stats
    • Alerts pushed to your phone

    You'd want this if you want to notice a crashed service before users do.

  • Git

    Repos on every machine, plus GitHub.

    • Status, branches, diffs and history
    • Issues, PRs and Actions
    • Pull, commit and push over SSH

    You'd want this if you need to see which machine has unpushed work.

  • Files

    Browse any host and move things around.

    • Host-to-host copy with direct rsync
    • Previews, editor, zip, permissions
    • Two panes on iPad

    You'd want this if you want to move a build artefact from one box to the NAS.

  • Cloud

    Edge hosts as part of your lab.

    • AWS, DigitalOcean, Hetzner, Bluehost and others
    • Jump routes through them
    • Status and cost at a glance

    You'd want this if you reach your lab from anywhere through a VPS.

  • AI Agents

    Coding agents, one tap away.

    • Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Ollama
    • Detached tmux sessions you can check back on
    • "Ask" from bash help

    You'd want this if you start an agent on a GPU box from the phone.

  • Lab Ops

    Runbooks with approvals and an audit log.

    • Sudo runbooks approved on the phone
    • Inventory and drift
    • A CLI for your agents

    You'd want this if you set up each new machine the same way as the others.

  • Share

    Big non-git assets, shared across machines.

    • One primary copy, per-machine pinning
    • Size limits and sync schedules
    • Global, org and repo levels

    You'd want this if you download a 40 GB model once for every GPU box.

Privacy

Nothing leaves your lab.

Burrow talks to your machines and nothing else. We do not run a service that sees your lab.

  • Keys stay in the Secure Enclave and Keychain.
  • No accounts and no analytics.
  • Only alert payloads pass through the push relay, and no lab data is stored there.
  • Add-ons run on your own servers; their data stays between your phone and your lab.

Read the full privacy policy

iPhone and iPad

Coming soon

Questions or want early access?
support@burrow.aardvarksoftware.com