Description

a-Shell 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. You can 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 includes Python, Lua, Perl, JavaScript, C, C++ for programming and TeX (texlive 2023, 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 shells at the same time, with different commands, in different directories. You can edit a file in one window with vim and process it in the other with python.

Compile your C or C++ programs to webAssembly using clang or clang++, and execute the resulting binary. A complete webAssembly SDK is included (WASI-libc).

a-Shell is the complete version. If you need a smaller app, and you don't need a C compiler, a TeX engine, or numpy and matplotlib, there is a-Shell mini.

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4.91 out of 5

23 ratings in Brazil

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Very smooth and fast

I really love this app! It’s fast and smooth. Vim works like a charm on it and I can very easily ssh into my home computer, and it’s incredibly fast

It’s a shell!

Your app is awesome, a shell on the iPad is a step closer to being able to do more kinds of work on it. And it’s free! I’d love to get node running on this, is there any way we can contribute with development?

Looks great

Python, Vim and LaTeX makes this a great tool. Unfortunately some SSH commands seem to hang the app like ssh-keygen. Lack of crypto related virtual devices I guess? Also it would be great if git-core was included.

It’s great to have a Linux shell on iOS!

Lots of tasks can be easily accomplished using a shell. Congrats to the dev on building this!

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Chart	Category	Rank
Top Free	South Korea Developer Tools	7
Top Free	Hungary Developer Tools	8
Top Free	Taiwan Developer Tools	10
Top Free	Finland Developer Tools	12
Top Free	Switzerland Developer Tools	14

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Keywords

termius, terminal, a-shell

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