a-Shell mini 17+

Local Unix terminal (with ssh‪)‬

Nicolas Holzschuch

Designed for iPad

    • Free

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Description

Local Unix terminal for iOS. Run Python, JavaScript, sh & all Unix commands locally on your phone, no network connection required.
Powerful when combined with Shortcuts.

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.

What’s New

Version 1.15.6

- new parameter for the "Get File" Shortcut: get file "as a copy". Use this when you encounter an issue with "Get File" and iOS 18.
- ffmpeg can add subtitles to video.

Ratings and Reviews

4.9 out of 5
12 Ratings

12 Ratings

Jim in Canada ,

Editing files on an iPad with Vim

a-shell mini is an amazing iPad app. I'm using it to edit Scriptable javascript files with Vim instead of Scriptable's built-in editor.

The developer was very responsive when I reported bug after an update.

I'm very impressed overall.

Quoc-Hao ,

Amazing minimal version

I just wanted a git cli and this is perfect.

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Data Not Collected

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