# ConnectBot

9 Hacker News commenters recommended ConnectBot and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Free SSH client that people switch to from JuiceSSH, praised for port forwarding and reliable remote access to home machines.

## Why people recommend it

- Free replacement for JuiceSSH (1 comments): "Replaced JuiceSSH two years ago with ConnectBot as a "free" alternative. Never looked back." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46770208))
- Port forwarding works well (1 comments): "ConnectBot worked quite well as an ssh client for me, including port forwarding" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46780175))
- Reliable SSH access to home (1 comments): "I just use ConnectBot to ssh to my house." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46520132))
- Good enough for SSH (1 comments): "I have found ssh sufficiently good" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46492436))

## What people warn about

- Keyboard leaves more to be desired (1 comments): "its keyboard has always left more to be desired" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46776308))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Mosh](https://hackerapproved.com/p/mosh.md): 61 recommend
- [SSH](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ssh.md): 57 recommend
- [Termius](https://hackerapproved.com/p/termius.md): 33 recommend
- [Moshi SSH and Mosh terminal for iOS](https://hackerapproved.com/p/moshi.md): 16 recommend
- [Echo SSH and mosh client for iOS](https://hackerapproved.com/p/echo-ios-ssh-and-mosh-client.md): 14 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "ConnectBot", https://hackerapproved.com/p/connectbot/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).