Secure ShellFish, SSH/SFTP storage in the iOS Files app
Every iOS app can reach the files on your own server.
- Answers
- Which iOS app connects SSH/SFTP storage to the Files app?
- Topics
- Freedom · SSH · cloud · data · howto · iPhone · linux · server · tablet
- Full article on willem.com
- https://willem.com/en/2020-09-16_syncing-files-seamlessly-between-smartphone-and-tablet/
Summary
Secure ShellFish. After testing different apps in 2020 I found it the best, because it plugged into the native Files app through the iOS storage provider APIs, so any app that reads local storage could reach files on my server.
Full text
I use my iPhone to send files, screenshots and photos through apps like Slack, WhatsApp, iMessage and Signal. Because Secure ShellFish hooks into the iOS storage provider APIs, all of those apps can reach the files on my NAS directly, as if they were local storage. On the computer side anything that can write files over SSH works; I keep a shared folder on the NAS up to date with Unison on Debian GNU/Linux, and the phone simply sees the result. That gives me my files on both tablet and smartphone without iCloud Drive or DropBox.