It starts at nothing. Add what you want and watch the total. Nothing on it comes back next year.
Two tables, because they are two decisions. Nothing in either is a subscription.
| The app | Free | Squeezed |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0 | $9.99, once |
| Connections | ||
| Saved connections | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Concurrent sessions | 4 desktop, 2 mobile | Unlimited |
| SSH, SFTP, Telnet, Mosh, local shell | Included | Included |
| Networks and per-host overrides | Included | Included |
| Port forwarding, local, remote, SOCKS | Not included | Included |
| Jump hosts and bastion chains | Not included | Included |
| Security | ||
| Key generation, OpenSSH certificates, hardware keys | Included | Included |
| PIN, biometrics, encrypted backups | Included | Included |
| Productivity | ||
| Server monitor | 5 hosts | Unlimited |
| Snippets, broadcast, workspaces | Included | Included |
| Automation, workflows, scheduled tasks | Not included | Included |
| Split panes and layout presets | Up to the session cap, 4 panes on desktop | Unlimited |
| Speech-to-text terminal input | Not included | Included |
| Appearance | ||
| Terminal themes | 3 | All, plus import |
| App themes and Theme Designer | 3 | All, plus designer |
| Sync storage | Your own | Juiced |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0, every tier | $24.99, once |
| End-to-end, zero-knowledge encryption | Identical | Identical |
| Recovery key, Argon2id, automatic backups | Included | Included |
| Where the encrypted blobs live | WebDAV, S3, Google Drive, self-hosted | ZestSSH Cloud, hosted |
| Setup | You run the storage | None |
| Can we read your data | No | No |
Plenty of clients with this feature set cost about $10 a month. Here's how a few years of that stacks up against paying once.
| After | ZestSSH, both | A $10 / month client |
|---|---|---|
| Year 1 | $29.99 | $120 |
| Year 3 | $29.99 | $360 |
| Year 5 | $29.99 | $600 |
| If you stop paying | Keeps working | Access ends |
A licence is yours; a subscription is a lease. ZestSSH is a licence.
No. ZestSSH works fully on a single device with no account and no cloud. Sync is entirely optional, it exists only to carry your connections, keys, and snippets to your other devices. If you use one device, you can ignore sync completely and nothing is missing.
No. When you do want sync, it's free on any storage you run yourself: WebDAV, an S3-compatible bucket, Google Drive, or a self-hosted ZestSSH server. Recovery keys and automatic backups are free too. Juiced ($24.99) is only for when you'd rather use our hosted ZestSSH Cloud store instead of running your own.
Yes. You pay once and own it forever. No recurring charges, no annual renewals, no surprises on your credit card. Squeezed is $9.99 once, Juiced is $24.99 once, and Squeezed + Juiced together is $29.99 once.
All updates are included for the lifetime of the product. Bug fixes, new features, platform updates, all free. "Lifetime" means the lifetime of ZestSSH as a product, not a fixed time period.
Yes. Juiced is an independent purchase. Add it to the Free tier to use the hosted ZestSSH Cloud store, or add it to Squeezed for the full experience. Buying Squeezed and Juiced together is $29.99, a $4.99 saving over buying them separately.
Clients like Termius rent a comparable feature set for roughly $10 a month. Feature depth is close for terminal, SFTP, and sync; ZestSSH adds context-aware Networks and needs no account. The structural difference is the cost table above: a ZestSSH purchase keeps working whether or not you ever pay again, because it's a licence, not a lease.
Zero-knowledge means we mathematically cannot read your data. Your information is encrypted on your device using your master password before it reaches any storage backend. We store only encrypted blobs. Even if our servers were compromised, your data would remain unreadable. The same encryption applies whether you sync to your own backend or to the hosted store.
Your purchases are tied to your Google Play or Apple ID account. Install ZestSSH on your new device and tap "Restore Purchases" in Settings. Your Squeezed and Juiced access will be restored automatically.
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