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a-Shell mini

*Local* Unix terminal (& ssh)

Nicolas Holzschuch · Developer Tools · Free · US storefront

#52 Top Free Developer Tools Apps
rating
4.6 ★
ratings
113
updated
Jul 2, 2026

v2.1.0

released
Dec 9, 2020

visible word pool · 7 words

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title 12/30 chars · subtitle 29/30 chars

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a-Shell mini is a complete local terminal emulator, allowing to run most Unix commands on you iOS device. You can transfer files using scp and curl, edit them with vim and ed, process them using grep, awk and sed. Work with git repositories using lg2. Most commands are compiled for iOS native Arm64 format, making them fast and well integrated with iOS underlying BSD Unix. a-Shell mini includes Python, Lua, JavaScript and webAssembly for programming and scripting. It also…

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latest US reviews

★★★★★

Bad update (temporarily, it's fixed!)

Edit: Great developer, it's fixed! 5 stars 🤩 This app and the full a-shell are amazing. The recent update to version 2 makes the keyboard icons comically large on the left side and unusable on the right side. Of course apple doesn't allow us consumers to install a previous…

brucebruce10

★★★★★

Can you make Ubuntu default

I need it for Ubuntu

JuanDavid9905

★★★★★

Hacks lol)

App using for nugget/misaka26, apple lol

sigmas1337

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