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a-Shell
*Local* Unix terminal (& ssh)
Nicolas Holzschuch · Developer Tools
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★ 4.56average rating
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On Oct 2, 2026 the rating count fell from 558 to 557: −1 ratings were removed overnight.
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| ★★ | 2% | |
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App info
- Developer
- Nicolas Holzschuch
- Category
- Developer Tools, Productivity
- Released
- Oct 25, 2019
- Version
- 2.2.2 (Sep 21, 2026)
- Price
- Free
- Size
- 1950.1 MB
- Requires
- iOS 14.0
- Age rating
- 16+
- Languages
- English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish
In-app purchases
noneCurrent prices, App Store US.
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| Top Free · Developer Tools | #21 |
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About a-Shell
a-Shell is a complete local terminal emulator, allowing to run most Unix commands on your iOS device. You can transfer files using scp and curl, edit them with vim and ed, process them using grep, awk and sed. You can work with git repositories using lg2. Most commands are compiled for iOS native Arm64 format, making them fast and well integrated with the BSD Unix that powers iOS/iPadOS. a-Shell includes Python, Lua, Perl, JavaScript, C, C++ for programming and TeX (texlive 2025, with Tikz and LuaTeX) for text processing. There are also multiple network utilities: nslookup, ping, whois, ifconfig... Type help for help, help -l to get the full list of commands. a-Shell can be controlled from Shortcuts: run commands in order, process files in a-Shell, get the results as text or files, transfer files to other apps... a-shell uses iOS 13+ “multiple windows” ability, so you can run multiple…
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