SSH Tunnel App Reviews

I had an issue with port forwarding working in the app (purely my own fault) and the developer helped me resolve the issue quickly. The program works great for my application of having a server whcih has mulltiple applications all communicating over SSH. I find it quite easy to enable and disable ports without having to drop into Terminal to do so. It is also easy to export my tunnel definitions and import them to another machine. As others have mentioned the ability to have the application autmatically connect your SSH sessions on startup is quite helpful.

Yeah... authentication with key pairs is now working. Thanks a lot for this. Now this tool is a nice little helper.

… even with private keys - thx

I dont enter the passphrase for my private key into random pop-up windows. Please use the running SSH agent for authentication. I also need agent forwarding to tunnel across multiple hosts. Just use the SSH default behaviour and its configuration file.

Works well, and is a slick, useful, and nicely designed addition to my menu bar. I would love to be able to group tunnels and enable and disable by group, but thats just me ;)

Application crashes when run by root user.

I haven’t tested the other ssh tunneling clients, but this one works very well. Easy-to-use UI and lots of options. Uses your private keys and integrates well with Keychain. Keep up the good work!

I bought this app hoping to quickly manage ssh tunnels. And that’s it! I feel very comfortable with this app and it can be used by a tiny menu bar icon. One can set up with few parameters but also advanced ones! Team developers reply very fast in case any issue arises. This is a very important feature. In fact, I had two separate troubles and developers replied to me in the same day. They also added the required new functionalities in the app and/or documentation. Very good job!

Works flawlessly. Intuitive UI, reliable. Well worth the price. Nicely done. Thank you!

You need to have something

It’s simple & straight-forward.

This works great. Using it to tunnel to remote servers and utilize applications behind the firewall. Works exactly as expected.

Does what it says, and does it well. Unobtrusive and flexible. I imagine this is a small market; I would have expected to pay a LOT more for this.

A great app but it’s missing some functionality. Privileged ports cannot be forwarded for example.

I’ve tried a bunch of these apps; I’m specifically comparing this to SSH Tunnel Manager, which I was using for more than a year before trying SSH Tunnel. In short, I’m really happy with SSH Tunnel, barring one issue (for which the developer provided a very fast work-around). 1. the ability to exist as only a menu icon is (strangely) important to me, this is a nice touch which SSH Tunnel Manager doesn’t have. 2. the ability to see the actual logs of the connection is hugely helpful, again, something SSH Tunnel Manager doesn’t have 3. the interface is clear enough — again, better than SSH Tunnel Manager which occasionally lost changes as you clicked through various options 4. the ability to order the connections is nice (and important, as you’ll see below) 5. SSH Tunnel does *not* appear to use your ssh .config or ssh-agent; you need to register your keys separately and tell each tunnel to use them. That being said, registration is easy. 6. The lack of .config support was almost a deal-breaker for me since I deal with multiple servers behind bastion hosts, but the developer walked me through the process of setting up an in-app (i.e., easily done) SOCKS proxy. By putting that first in the connection list, subsequent connections can jump through that proxy and everything works wonderfully. Anyway — thumbs up. The fact that I this review is about one word for each penny I spent on this app just shows I have time on my hands this morning.

Does exactly what it says on the tin, and does it well. The new version seems to fix my occasional issue with reconnecting after sleep, as well as handling timeouts/disconnects better.

Works as described, small memory footprint.

This is an update to my review below. The dev has fixed directly all the issues I mentioned below with the 15.02.1 release within TWO DAYS of my writing about them here. So without reiterating what everyone is saying about how solid and useful this app is, I’ll add to that by pointing out how ON-IT the dev is at squishing bugs and maintaing their app’s well deserved 5-star rating. --- The newest version is a bit of a calamity for me. This was once one of my prized apps. It took me a long time to find a polished, professional grade tunnel manager for work use (Operations Engineering). Since updating every day use is frought with bugginess. Very frustrated, and the worst of it is I can’t figure out how to revert to the previous version! I’m dealing with: -Can’t enter text into the interactive password field/popup (unless opened from the SSH Tunnel window, for some reason). Opening from the menu bar app opens a window, but I can’t drop a cursor in the field. -Lost interactive password popups - upon selecting a login target the password popup appears to be lost somewhere. Maybe a full screen issue? When this happens the menu bar app is frozen, highlighted blue. Have to force quit from activity monitor or command line. I would rollback if I could but I don’t see how. I would delete the app and reinstall but I’m worried I’ll lose my extensive tunnel configurations.

The new data visualization and SOCKS/Dynamic forwarding features are fantastic! Very responsive developer as well. I use this every single day on every machine I have. The only thing I could really wish for is a full capture mode like ProxyCap (to support apps that don’t natively understand proxies), but that would just be icing on an already very nice cake!

I use it every day for remote administration. Saves me a lot of time. Wish the developer would make an iOS equivalent (I know about background app limitations, I could live with them).