Get Console App Reviews

This app is a fantastic console app for the ipad / iphone. Works great on all my equipment and while i know theres a lot of comments to the use of redpark rj45 cable, i prefer that cable as its a smaller easier to pack cable. Its easy to have some adapters at hand for it. Also good to mention this works on Motorola tut systems. Direct serial works amazing, telnet and ssh both do as well. As a future improvement it would be great to see an option to proxy for individual saved telnet / ssh configs.

This app is very neat and simply does the job. As a heavy iPad user, this saves me from having to carry a laptop to the datacenter.

I have this app, but it doesnt currently support 115,200 baud. I have been told this will be supported with the next cable using USB. This will be a great asset to the design engineering community replacing putty and USB to Serial cables on laptops. Good Job, Chris

Ive tried many console applications for iOS, but none that combine a hardware serial adapter with an excellent telnet/SSH implementation. The features within the console software are clearly well thought out and the product of working with people who actually need and use this type of software.

I am a Cisco Academy Instructor and this app has opened many doors for instuction. I just got the app yesterday....and the students barely let ME play with it! I teach 11th and 12th graders and it is pretty hard to actually impress them since they have grown up using technology but they LOVED this app. Some of their comments: It was AWESOME! Easy to use, pretty cool. Can we all get iPads now and get rid of the computers? I plan to use this to view student configs while they are doing labs. I can check for correctness, change configs as desired without them seeing what I am doing, and allow students to troubleshoot other students configs.

This is hands down the best terminal app out there - ive pretty much tried them all of them now - does serial connections, telnet, ssh - imports your existing sessions from SecureCRT and Putty (I had 300 saved connections in SecureCRT on my laptop - now all in Get Console). I havent had it crash on me yet. This latest version does Dropbox for log files etc, and also finally does multisession, and also does full terminal scripting. Ive used the fancy screen sharing thing as well which worked well. All in all very good. Keep up the good work.

I would give it five stars if it would save IP addresses. When you SSH or Telnet to a switch or router, you use IP addresses and not Hostnames. Hostnames are good for websites and not switches or routers. You can use IP addresses, but it does not save them.

When I first purchased this app and the cable I ran in to a couple issues. The first, and in my opinion most important part of any app, thing I discovered is that the developer is both actively working on improvements and very responsive to issues and ideas. You can feel comfortable knowing that your $65 investment in the app and cable are going to be viable for some time to come. That said, the limitation in the current version is with the particular SSH implementation. It does not support v1, which yes, I do run in to. The dev has informed me this is changing soon though with more features on the way. That is about the only limitation I have found. The tie in to Dropbox, ability to script, import putty and SecureCRT profiles, built in password manager, etc. all set this app apart from anything else in the app store. Another cool feature also unique is the ability to share a session over the web with an engineer that is sitting remote. In the real world that can be very useful. I look forward to future improvements and would not hesitate to recommend this app to anyone.

For serial connectivity (only feature of app I tested), this app works flawlessly. I was able to make a quick terminal game (ASCII Space Invaders!) via UART connectivity with an ARM LPC2148 micro controller. Printing on iPad made it that much more fun.

This app works as advertised for the most part however clipboard support for loading config files is a little tedious, the copy to clipboard option does not work. You have to open a switch config for example in another program and then paste to console. Support from dev via website e-mail is also painfully slow.

Ssh, etc nice. Love the cut and paste. Bought it to use with serial console cable, and it does not recognize the cable. The app store blurb references the db9 cable, but when you go to their website,zoops, sorry, only works with the rj cable.

Amazing, say good bye to carrying my laptop around to fix all my access points and Cisco switches. Works smoothly as promised and is customizable. Would recommend strongly.

Only reason I have iPad was to use this app. Unfortunately it seems you need an external keyboard to prevent on screen keyboard from sitting on top of active cursor. If you lower screen rollback and use in portrait mode it works - but I need the scroll back. Great program other than the fact that it is useless to me.

Installed on an iPhone 4S with ios6 and it doesnt work at all. It feels like a fake app. No character echo of what I type, app crashes, app doesnt connect. Ripped off for 10 dollars, similar experience with tinyterm older version that shouldnt even be in the store. All very disappointing.

There are so many great things its hard to list. What I like best is to be able to join a remote console connection over 3G. I wish the cable were cheaper, it really should be 5$ or so. The price of the app is totally justified. With cheap cables Id give one to everyone with a phone - remote console on demand...

I highly recommend this app for any consultant, sys admin, network admin, or anyone in need of a serial connection. This app is great when used with the Redpark C2-RJ45V cable and adapter to serial. I used to cringe when I needed to take out my laptop and USB to serial adaptor. Great job on the app.

This app is wonderful. Ive been using it with ipad mini and redpark lightning console cable. Not only is it great for console use but its by far the best telnet app Ive seen on any tablet. The ability to create your own scripts is amazing and makes for quick and easy logons, not to mention you can arrange all the saved connections by folder. It can log activity, allow remote seasions, and act as a tftp server. What more could you ask for? The reviews complaining about the keyboard being in front of the active command line just need to dock the keyboard. This app is worth the money no doubt about it. If you work with switches and routers often then there is no reason to hesitate about buying this app and the redpark cable.

The Cable I bought is very fragile where it connects to the iPad. Also, the latency in typing will drive you crazy. The best part of this app is I can capture the console out put and email it to my computer.

I can connect wirelessly with Aircosole and this app. You guys did a great job, huge time saver! Nothing else like it on the market.

I use Get-Console on my iPad2 along with the Airconsole adapter. The app is great. It supports a “Connection Manager” which allows directories so that you can organize your connection objects. Each connection object allows custom settings and you can create a login script and assign it to the connection. As soon as the connection comes up the script logs you in. There is a lot more you can do with the scripting engine besides login scripts. It is fully integrated with Dropbox and you can configure it to automatically log every connection and save it to dropbox. There is “CMD” button that allow you to save often used commands for quick entry and you can save complete text files in dropbox and instantly paste them into a device or paste what is in the clipboard. It supports Telnet, SSH and Serial using either the RedPark cable or the AirConsole. The Airconsole is the best $70 tool I have ever purchased. It provides a serial console connection over wifi. But it also has an Ethernet jack so you can connect to a console port for serial and then connect the ethernet port for TFTP (built into the Get-Console App). Plus it has a DHCP server built in. You can connect the Airconsole Ethernet port to any device that is configured for DHCP and it will hand out an address. Now you just connect your iPad or laptop to the Airconsole and you have Ethernet access to the device. I use it to configure iLo on HP servers all the time. Battery life is about 5 hours but you can charge it while using it. Almost any device with a USB port will charge it so it’s never a problem in a rack with servers. With the Airconsole device I don’t need to bring a laptop any longer. I have Serial, telnet and SSH right on the iPad with a great application. If I have wifi at the site I don’t even need the Airconsole! Plus, it works over VPN so if the site doesn’t have wifi but I have 3G coverage I just connect the VPN and use telnet/SSH for existing switches. I have only had a couple questions and the developers were very quick to respond. At one point I smashed the usb/serial cable in the hinge of a wall mount rack and they gave me a big discount on the replacement! I purchased an app that scans the network using SNMP. At a customer site I run that, grab the output and create the connection objects in a short time.