JuiceSSH is gone. Here is where to go next.

What actually happened

Sonelli Ltd published JuiceSSH in December 2012. The last release was 4 February 2021. On 11 December 2025 the listing came down, which means it can no longer be installed from the Play Store, cannot be restored to a new phone from your Play library, and will not receive another update.

Existing installs keep running. That is the trap. An SSH client is the one app where "still runs" and "still safe" are different questions, because it is holding the private keys to your servers.

• A build from early 2021 predates Android 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16. Every one of those releases changed background execution, storage or permissions.
• It ships the crypto libraries that were current in 2021. Nothing has been patched since.
• There is no export. Your hosts, your identities and your keys are in its database, and it never offered a way to get them out.
• The one-time Pro purchase cannot be re-bought or restored on a new device, which is what most of the complaints left online are about.

Sideloading the APK from a mirror site solves the install problem and makes the security problem worse: a 2021 binary from an unverified source, holding the keys to your infrastructure. Do not do this.

What to move to

There are four realistic options on Android in 2026, and the honest answer depends on what you were using JuiceSSH for.

If you want the closest thing to what JuiceSSH was - a phone-first client that manages hosts and keys and gets out of the way - that is what Termphin was built to be.

Migrating off JuiceSSH without locking yourself out

This is the part people get wrong, and getting it wrong on a box you can only reach from your phone is a bad afternoon. Do it in this order, while JuiceSSH still opens.

1. Write down your hosts first. There is no export, so open JuiceSSH and copy out every hostname, port, username and jump-host setting. Do this before you uninstall anything.
2. Generate a fresh keypair in the new client. JuiceSSH will not hand you its private keys either. Termphin generates ed25519 or RSA and can import an existing OpenSSH PEM key if you have one stored somewhere else.
3. Add the new public key to <code>authorized_keys</code> - while the old one still works. Append it, do not replace it. You want both keys valid at the same time.
4. Log in with the new key and confirm it works on every server. Every server. The one you forgot is always the one that matters.
5. Only now remove the old key. Delete the JuiceSSH key line from authorized_keys, then uninstall.
6. Revoke its Google account access. JuiceSSH held Google account permissions for its cloud sync. Check your Google account's third-party connections and remove it.

What Termphin does differently

The reason JuiceSSH hurt to lose is that it was a real Android app rather than a terminal emulator with SSH bolted on. Termphin starts from the same premise and fixes the thing that made phone SSH miserable.

• Sessions survive the connection dropping. A small agent on the server keeps your shell running when the train goes into a tunnel, and reattaches you to it - not just when the app is backgrounded, but when the network actually dies.
• Keys never leave the device. Every secret is sealed with authenticated encryption under a key held in the Android Keystore. There is no account, so there is no cloud vault to lose the password to.
• A real SFTP browser, with an editor, image preview and transfers that report actual byte counts instead of a spinner.
• Snippets for the commands you run on every box, with their output kept.
• Port forwarding, a PIN or biometric lock, and 14 terminal colour schemes, light and dark.
• Free, with no in-app purchases - there is no Pro tier to be stranded without.

Will this one disappear too?

Fair question to ask, given why you are here. Two honest answers.

The parts that matter most are open source and public: the terminal renderer and the server agent are both in public repositories, so you can read exactly what runs on your machine and on your server, and neither disappears if a Play listing does.

The rest is a promise from one developer, which is worth what any such promise is worth. What we can offer instead of a promise is that your data is on your device in a form you control, and that nothing about Termphin requires our servers to stay up. There are none.

Frequently asked questions

Is JuiceSSH really gone?

From the Play Store, yes - it was unpublished on 11 December 2025 and cannot be installed by new users or restored to a new device. If it is already on your phone it keeps working, but it has not had an update since February 2021 and will not get another one.

Can I still use JuiceSSH if I already have it?

It runs, but you are running four-year-old crypto and a build that predates five Android releases, and it is holding your server keys. Treat it as something to migrate off deliberately rather than something to keep until it breaks.

Can I export my hosts and keys from JuiceSSH?

No. It never had an export function, and the removal did not add one. You will need to note your hosts down by hand and generate a new keypair in whatever you move to.

What about my JuiceSSH Pro purchase?

A one-time unlock tied to a delisted app cannot be restored on a new device, and there is no route to a refund this long after purchase. This is the most common complaint about the shutdown and there is no good answer to it.

Is Termphin free?

Yes, and there are no in-app purchases. The persistent-session agent, SFTP, snippets, port forwarding and key management are all included.

Can I use my existing SSH keys?

Yes, if you have them outside JuiceSSH - Termphin imports OpenSSH PEM private keys and can generate ed25519 or RSA 2048/4096 keypairs itself. Keys stored only inside JuiceSSH cannot be recovered from it.