---
title: "a-Shell mini - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads in United States | Apple App Store"
description: "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,"
---

# a-Shell mini — United States
> *Local* Unix terminal (&amp; ssh)

![a-Shell mini App Icon](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple211/v4/ce/3c/d8/ce3cd828-2b9e-1587-e306-d9de4d8cabe0/AppIcon-mini-1x_U007emarketing-0-8-0-85-220-0.png/434x0w.png)

**Developer:** [Nicolas Holzschuch](https://apptail.io/developer/nicolas-holzschuch-jhrb)
**Category:** Developer Tools
**Rating:** 4.6/5 (105 ratings)
**Price:** Free
**Bundle ID:** AsheKube.app.a-Shell-mini
**Store:** Apple App Store
**Country:** United States
**Version:** 1.17.5 (released 2026-01-29)
**Original Release:** 2020-12-09
**Languages:** German, Japanese, French, Chinese, English, Spanish, Korean

**App Store Link:** [Download on Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/app/id1543537943)
**AppTail Page:** [https://apptail.io/app/a-shell-mini-Fwx/united-states](https://apptail.io/app/a-shell-mini-Fwx/united-states)

## a-Shell mini Description
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 includes native ffmpeg and convert for fast image and video conversion.

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 mini 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 mini uses iPadOS 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. 

a-Shell mini is a minimalist terminal, designed to have a very small footprint (less than 250 MB). If you need more commands, please consider a-Shell, which has more Python packages, more JavaScript modules, Perl, make, a C and C++ compiler and TeX.

## a-Shell mini Screenshots
- [Screenshot 1](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource124/v4/6f/01/d8/6f01d8dc-1444-c8ac-978e-d5cd1e0ea536/ae3b010c-493d-4197-8e2a-4bda0e286b31_Simulator_Screen_Shot_-_iPhone_11_Pro_Max_-_2019-10-15_at_21.56.20.png/1242x2688.png)
- [Screenshot 2](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource124/v4/2f/3f/0e/2f3f0e28-af7a-9b4c-afe6-2985c7b70cd9/2767f759-d1ed-471a-a5d5-cf9ae5272156_Simulator_Screen_Shot_-_iPhone_11_Pro_Max_-_2019-10-15_at_21.59.08.png/1242x2688.png)
- [Screenshot 3](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource124/v4/97/17/1a/97171a73-a9a1-a349-9b4c-4266e28f4003/8c3ea3c4-beca-494f-a6d9-7bbe36939dcf_Simulator_Screen_Shot_-_iPhone_11_Pro_Max_-_2019-10-15_at_21.58.04.png/1242x2688.png)
- [Screenshot 4](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource124/v4/5a/2e/d5/5a2ed5c2-eefd-d512-89ab-031c01d921a3/40a6e64e-44f6-4e3d-8781-c7603d603636_Simulator_Screen_Shot_-_iPhone_11_Pro_Max_-_2019-10-15_at_21.57.26.png/1242x2688.png)
- [Screenshot 5](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource114/v4/c6/a0/7b/c6a07b03-b6c5-1547-f31c-e0c58167ee29/d90f88ce-78fb-40c3-83ce-c19a7fb56cdf_Simulator_Screen_Shot_-_iPhone_11_Pro_Max_-_2019-10-15_at_21.56.32.png/1242x2688.png)

## a-Shell mini Rating Breakdown in United States
- 5 stars: 87 (83%)
- 4 stars: 7 (7%)
- 3 stars: 3 (3%)
- 2 stars: 1 (1%)
- 1 stars: 7 (7%)

## a-Shell mini Reviews in United States

### ****- "Deletes itself"
Works fine until it decides to delete itself.
-- BiggBoyy177, 2024-07-21

### ***** "Great"
Great app.  Is it possible to includes libx265 codec for the buildin ffmpeg?  Don’t like hevc videotoolbox
-- SuperBanana509, 2024-05-04

### ***** "Best shell for me"
Tried many other shell apps. This and the full a-shell are now the only ones I use. No fuss, multiple window support… no need to look at any similar apps, this is the shell you need.
-- pemayes, 2024-03-20

### ***** "a bug"
can&#039;t run   &#039;python -c &quot;import requests&quot;&#039; in shortcut, show error &quot;no moduled named requests&quot;.

but it work in shell
-- qcyunying, 2024-02-11

### ***** "Instagram download"
Yes
-- GucciLix, 2023-09-03

### ***** "A useful shell for SSH, other IT functions"
I find this app very useful for core operations like SSH to servers for management, pinging devices on the network, plus finding uptime on my iPhone, ifconfig info, etc.

There’s a lot of functionality built into this pared down version of its sister app, a-Shell (the full featured app). a-Shell Mini omits all the Python and other scripting libraries in favor of a smaller footprint, which is fine by for my needs. Again, if you want to do development, go for the full version.

Otherwise, I find a very useful tool in my IT toolbox.
-- KayEssKay, 2023-08-12

### ***** "awesome"
i use this all the time, mostly for git. lightweight and super easy to use. occasionally forgets your shortcuts for mounted folders but that&#039;s really whatever, they&#039;re easy to re-add. thanks for creating &amp; maintaining this app
-- Kavyle, 2023-06-15

### ***-- "I like the app but i need help"
So im trying to download audio but every time i do it keeps giving me a error ive tried restarting it and its still giving me a error so I don’t know what to do
-- queenfanfhchcgg, 2023-03-23

### **--- "难用的一批！连自己的绝对路径都获取不到！也不能执行自己编的程序！"
how dare you！
-- 雷厉风行雷厉风行, 2023-02-04

### ***-- "A few things"
No crash after first command, but the typed characters were not echoed, and there was no no response. Quitting and restarting fixed that one. I had trouble selecting characters to copy and paste. Tapping and double-tapping wouldn’t get a word selected reliably. I would pay a small amount if I didn’t see these problems. iOS 15.7 with 1.9.9.
-- vonlost1, 2022-10-24

### ***** "Im a picky user and this app doesn’t disappoint"
Ive tried a bunch of different shell apps. And everyone of them is clunky and gathering your network data and shoving adds in your face

This app does whats its supposed to do very efficiently and the gui is great.   I can connect to other machines with great ease. 

its easy to type of and use the arrow keys.   This is a big plus.

Thanks to the dev for making something that works.
-- Foxracer95, 2022-10-18

### *---- "Latest update broke app"
Latest update just crashes the app when attempting to open it! Same for the regular ashell app! What gives? I’ve tried uninstalling the app, restarting, and reinstalling with no luck.
-- Leonphoto, 2022-04-15

### ***** "Useful"
This is about the only app in thousands of things that actually works I use this with a ios Shortcut and works perfectly.
-- Whozae, 2022-04-02

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## a-Shell mini Store Rankings
| Chart | Country | Category | Rank |
|-------|---------|----------|------|
| Top Free | Taiwan | Developer Tools | #9 |
| Top Free | South Korea | Developer Tools | #14 |
| Top Free | Hong Kong SAR China | Developer Tools | #19 |
| Top Free | Denmark | Developer Tools | #23 |
| Top Free | Dominican Republic | Developer Tools | #28 |
| Top Free | South Africa | Developer Tools | #31 |
| Top Free | Romania | Developer Tools | #33 |
| Top Free | Switzerland | Developer Tools | #33 |
| Top Free | Pakistan | Developer Tools | #35 |
| Top Free | Finland | Developer Tools | #37 |
| Top Free | India | Developer Tools | #41 |
| Top Free | Netherlands | Developer Tools | #42 |
| Top Free | Thailand | Developer Tools | #42 |
| Top Free | Ecuador | Developer Tools | #43 |
| Top Free | Belarus | Developer Tools | #44 |
| Top Free | Kuwait | Developer Tools | #45 |
| Top Free | Vietnam | Developer Tools | #47 |
| Top Free | Mexico | Developer Tools | #47 |
| Top Free | Australia | Developer Tools | #48 |
| Top Free | Spain | Developer Tools | #49 |
| Top Free | Norway | Developer Tools | #50 |
| Top Free | Portugal | Developer Tools | #50 |
| Top Free | Ukraine | Developer Tools | #51 |
| Top Free | Italy | Developer Tools | #51 |
| Top Free | Japan | Developer Tools | #51 |
| Top Free | Hungary | Developer Tools | #53 |
| Top Free | Greece | Developer Tools | #53 |
| Top Free | United States | Developer Tools | #54 |
| Top Free | Israel | Developer Tools | #55 |
| Top Free | Philippines | Developer Tools | #55 |
| Top Free | Poland | Developer Tools | #57 |
| Top Free | France | Developer Tools | #58 |
| Top Free | Türkiye | Developer Tools | #58 |
| Top Free | United Kingdom | Developer Tools | #58 |
| Top Free | Egypt | Developer Tools | #59 |
| Top Free | Germany | Developer Tools | #59 |
| Top Free | Saudi Arabia | Developer Tools | #60 |
| Top Free | Indonesia | Developer Tools | #62 |
| Top Free | Canada | Developer Tools | #65 |
| Top Free | Singapore | Developer Tools | #65 |
| Top Free | Czechia | Developer Tools | #67 |
| Top Free | Ireland | Developer Tools | #69 |
| Top Free | Peru | Developer Tools | #70 |
| Top Free | China | Developer Tools | #70 |
| Top Free | Kazakhstan | Developer Tools | #71 |
| Top Free | New Zealand | Developer Tools | #77 |
| Top Free | Brazil | Developer Tools | #78 |
| Top Free | Austria | Developer Tools | #79 |
| Top Free | Argentina | Developer Tools | #79 |
| Top Free | Azerbaijan | Developer Tools | #82 |
| Top Free | Malaysia | Developer Tools | #86 |
| Top Free | Lebanon | Developer Tools | #89 |
| Top Free | Colombia | Developer Tools | #91 |
| Top Free | Sweden | Developer Tools | #108 |
| Top Free | Chile | Developer Tools | #117 |
| Top Free | Nigeria | Developer Tools | #130 |
| Top Free | United Arab Emirates | Developer Tools | #147 |
| Top Free | Belgium | Developer Tools | #186 |

## a-Shell mini Discovered Keywords
- a
- a shell
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