What's changed on the iPhone.

Every release, newest first. Everyone gets every update, and a license covers all of Hostbeam 1.

1.0

28 September 2026

Added

  • Hostbeam for iPhone. Send a screenshot, or any file, from your phone to your own server over SSH, and get its path on your clipboard. Paste it to a coding agent running there and the agent gets the picture itself, not a line of text. It is built for one moment: you are working with an agent, and you want to show it something you can only see on your phone.
  • Share a screenshot, a PDF or a recording to Hostbeam from anywhere in iOS: it sends, copies the path, and gets out of the way. Several at once go as one beam, their paths on one line. Up to 100 MB a file, and anything that looks like a secret, such as a `.env` or a private key, waits for your "Send anyway".
  • Or beam without opening the app at all: a Home Screen widget, a Control in Control Centre, and a Shortcuts action, each sending your latest screenshot to your default host in one tap.
  • Beam an image straight from the clipboard, when what you want to send did not come from the screenshot button.
  • Recent shows what you have sent, with a thumbnail, and copies its path again whenever you need it.
  • Add a host by scanning the QR the Mac app shows, or by typing it in. The phone makes its own SSH key on first launch and shows you the one command that authorizes it; if your Mac has already done that for this host, the step does not appear at all.
  • Switch where beams go in one tap from the home screen, or with a swipe in Hosts. A host's page copies its hostname, port, username or the whole SSH command, for setting it up in your SSH app.
  • Host keys are pinned. If a server's key changes, Hostbeam refuses to send until you re-trust it, rather than quietly trusting something new.
  • See how much space your beams take on a host, and clean them up from the app. Only files Hostbeam named are ever removed.
  • Free, with no limit and nothing to buy: no in-app purchase, and no licence key to enter.
  • In English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean and Chinese.

Nothing in the middle

  • Your phone talks to your server directly. No account, no sign-in, no Hostbeam relay, no telemetry. What you beam is never routed through or stored by anything of ours, because there is nothing of ours in the path.