apps / 1543537943
a-Shell mini
Local Unix terminal (& ssh)
Nicolas Holzschuch · Developer Tools · Free · US storefront
- rating
- 4.6 ★
- ratings
- 122
- updated
- Oct 24, 2026
- released
- Dec 9, 2020
v2.3.0
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title 12/30 chars · subtitle 27/30 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…
latest US reviews
★★★★★
Perfect and Exactly what I needed
I rarely review apps. But, I came from the blink shell emulator before they pay-walled it. Honestly I’m glad that did, because I much prefer having a-shell(mini on my phone) in my tool belt. It’s fast, simple, and it may not be “pretty” like blink or ish but it’s so lightweight…
— Gabri31Cary
★★★★★
Used to be good
This app used to be pretty great. Now it's much less great, at least on an iPhone. Controls I relied on for reliable/manageable keyboard input are gone, like there's no way to scrollback in the shell history. There used to be. Maybe this is now optimized for an iPad UI? I don't…
— synathleo
★★★★★
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
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