Edgely Console Mobile
Android · iOS
Full-featured server management from your phone. SSH terminal, file transfers, Docker management, and more.
No account required
Free for personal use No proof of enrollment No time limit Zero telemetry
Edgely for Education Free for students, teachers and self-taught developers
Edgely Console and Edgely Database Manager are complete and free for personal use: no proof of enrollment, no trial clock, every feature unlocked. Learn SSH, Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL and AI tooling on the software engineers actually ship with.
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What free actually means, app by app
- Edgely Console and Edgely Database Manager: every feature, free for personal use.
- Edgely Guard: every audit, scan, monitor and tool is free; the deep clean itself has a monthly allowance.
- Edgely Transfer: sending a file and browsing shared folders are free; downloading and uploading from them is the paid tier.
- Console Mobile, Transfer Mobile and the IDE plugin: no paid tier at all, and no account.
Who it is for
Built for everyone learning to ship software
One free tier, written for the people who are still learning the tools rather than billing for them.
- Computer science students
- Open a shell on the university lab machine, run the homework database, move files between your laptop and your phone. Nothing to request, nothing to renew.
- Teachers and instructors
- Set a lab up without a procurement request. The class works in the same SSH, PostgreSQL and Docker tools they will meet in industry, on their own machines.
- School and university clubs
- A CTF box, a shared MariaDB, a Proxmox lab: every member installs the full app on macOS, Windows or Linux and keeps it.
- Self-taught developers
- Learning Linux, Docker, Kubernetes or Postgres on your own time costs nothing here, and the features stay unlocked once you are good at it.
In the box
What you get for free
The free tier is the whole application, not a preview of it.
- Edgely Console
- Sixteen protocols in one window: SSH, SFTP, SCP, FTP/FTPS, WebDAV, RDP, VNC, ARD, WinRM, Telnet, Serial, S3, Docker, Kubernetes, Proxmox and MCP.
- Edgely Database Manager
- PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQL Server, Oracle, ClickHouse and MongoDB, through one editor, one schema view and one export path. DB2 is coming.
- AI assistant
- Fourteen task types, from explaining a failing command to reading a log. It runs on your own key, Ollama on your machine or OpenAI or Anthropic, so a class costs nothing per student.
- MCP server
- Console and Database Manager each run a Model Context Protocol server, so an AI client works through the connections you saved, under the permission tier you grant.
- Encrypted vault
- Passwords and keys stay in an AES-256-GCM vault on the device, unlocked by a master password or by the operating system keychain.
- Cross-device sync
- Connections and settings follow you to another machine with an account. Credentials never do, and the server rejects anything that looks like one.
- Plugins
- REST Client and Broker Client install from the marketplace and run sandboxed inside the app.
- No strings
- No telemetry, no advertising, no nag screen and no expiry. An account is only needed for sync and licences.
Protocols
Database engines
Always Free
Free apps, every feature included
These apps have no paid tier, so every feature is free. You do not need an account to use them.
Edgely Transfer Mobile
Android · iOS
Send and receive files between your phone and any device on your local network. Direct, end-to-end encrypted, no cloud round-trip.
No account required
Edgely Console for your IDE
VS Code · IntelliJ IDEA · NetBeans · Eclipse
Manage servers without leaving your editor. The same plugin for IntelliJ, VS Code, Eclipse and NetBeans.
No account required
In the classroom
Classroom & club ideas
Four lab shapes that stop being about installing the tool.
- Linux administration
- One window per student, three saved hosts (web, database, application) and a key kept in the vault. The first lesson is the shell, not the installer.
- Database systems
- PostgreSQL, MySQL and MongoDB through the same editor, so the syllabus is about the query rather than about which client runs on which laptop.
- Containers and clusters
- Start a container, open a shell inside it, read its logs and look at the cluster, without leaving the app or memorising the flags first.
- AI and MCP lab
- Point an MCP client at a lab machine and have the class compare what the model proposes with what the command actually returns.
Where free stops
What the free tier does not cover
The limits are few and they are worth stating plainly, so nobody discovers one in the middle of a lesson.
- Paid work
- Using Edgely for commercial work needs a subscription. The pricing page lists each one, what it unlocks and the trial that comes with it.
- Guard's deep clean
- Every audit, scan, monitor, network tool and uninstall in Edgely Guard is free and unmetered. The cleanup operation itself has a monthly allowance on the free tier.
- Transfer's downloads and uploads
- Sending a file to a device is free, and so is browsing shared folders and remote files. Downloading from them and uploading to them is what the paid tier unlocks.
- A school-wide rollout
- Central licence management, single sign-on and audit reporting are the organization tiers, sold per seat from ten seats. Classroom and personal use stays free.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
Is Edgely really free for students and teachers?
Yes. Edgely Console and Edgely Database Manager are complete and free for personal use, which is what learning and teaching with them is. Edgely Guard and Edgely Transfer are free with their core features, and the mobile apps and the IDE plugin have no paid tier at all.
Do I need a school email or a .edu address?
No. There is nothing to prove and nothing to apply for: the free tier is open to everyone, and the desktop apps run without an account. An account only adds cross-device sync and licence management.
Can my school install Edgely on its lab machines?
Yes, for teaching and learning. If the school wants central licence management, single sign-on or audit reporting, that is an organization subscription, sold per seat from ten seats. Classroom and personal use stays free.
What does the AI assistant cost?
Nothing from us. It has fourteen task types and runs on your own key: Ollama on your own machine, or OpenAI or Anthropic. Sensitive data is redacted before anything is sent to a cloud provider, and that is on by default.
Can an AI client work on my lab machine through Edgely?
Yes. Edgely Console and Edgely Database Manager each run a Model Context Protocol server, so an MCP client works through the connections you already saved, under the permission tier you grant. Destructive tools stay refused until you grant them.
Where do my passwords go?
Into an encrypted vault on your own device, unlocked by a master password or by the operating system keychain. Sync carries connections and settings, never a password or a private key, and the server refuses anything that looks like one.
Get the same tools real engineers use, for free
Download Edgely Console and Edgely Database Manager, install them on macOS, Windows or Linux, and get to work. Personal use stays free from your first ssh command to your first production deploy.
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