CaretYour servers, in your pocket.
Pure SSH. No agent. No backend.
Caret is a cross-platform server cockpit for iOS, Android and macOS. Connect to any Linux box over plain SSH — open a full interactive terminal, watch live resource graphs, manage Docker, and run your saved command snippets. Nothing is installed on the server, and there is no cloud in between: the app talks straight to your machines.
Everything an ops session needs
One focused toolkit instead of a shell prompt and five web dashboards. Built for developers who live in the terminal but want their phone to keep up.
Full SSH terminal
A complete interactive terminal powered by xterm — run vim, htop, tail logs. Multiple tabs, auto-reconnect on a dropped link, and one-tap execution of your command snippets.
Live monitoring
Real-time CPU, memory, disk, network and load charts. An aggregated status overview across every server, with history kept locally on your device.
Docker management
List containers, start / stop / restart, inspect details and stream live logs — across all your servers from a single screen.
Pod deploy templates
A graphical docker run builder. Capture a deployment as a template once, then roll it out to many machines with a single tap.
Command snippets
Save the commands you run all the time. Pick a server, jump into the terminal, and the snippet runs automatically.
SFTP files
Browse, upload and download remote files over SFTP — no extra tooling on the server. (Rolling out across upcoming releases.)
Security by design
Your credentials never leave the device.
Caret has no backend of its own and ships no telemetry. Connections go directly from your phone or Mac to your server.
How it is built
- UI
- Flutter (Dart 3)
- SSH / SFTP
- dartssh2
- Terminal
- xterm.dart
- Storage
- SQLite + Secure Storage
Keys stay in the secure enclave
Passwords, private keys and passphrases live only in the operating system keystore — Keychain on iOS / macOS, Keystore on Android. They are never written to the app database.
No agent on the server
Caret speaks standard SSH. There is nothing to install on the remote box and nothing for it to phone home to.
No middleman cloud
There is no Caret server. The app connects straight to the hosts you configure — your traffic never passes through us.
Everything is local
Server configs, monitoring history and snippets are stored in an on-device database. Delete a server, or the app, and it is gone.
Caret is almost ready.
Coming to the App Store, Google Play and macOS. iOS, Android and Mac from a single codebase.