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✓ GoodGreat work, but missing core features of basic commands. Can't ssh on anything but port 22, which really limits usefulness..Version: 1.4
✓ ExcellentWhat a joy to use. Perfect for those odd bits of script and small tasks that are too complicated to perform any other way on iOS. This app also means I don’t need to ssh to my server as often as I can now do so much locally. The only negative comment is that editing command lines after pasting from the clipboard can be a bit messy. Thanks for a great app, Martin.Version: 1.7.4
✓ It really worksThis is the first command line app that just worked. It is faster than my Mac Pro on typical cmds. Way cool..Version: 1.7.4
✓ HelpHow do I get python to work.Version: 1.10.3
✓ I love it!Thanks so much to the developer of this amazing shell. I’ve been trying to find a way to turn my iPad into a coding sandbox for a while, to exercise new coding ideas without having to boot up my laptop. This is just what I was looking for. Not sure if the Apple restrictions would allow for it, but it would be amazing if node/npm could be ported to this environment..Version: 1.6.4
✓ Add a help screenSo the help screen that’s already in it does not specify all the commands you can use.Version: 1.1
✓ Great!Good work. Gives the IPad another layer of productivity..Version: 1.6.6
✓ Remote shut off commandMe and my friends have messed around a bit with the app but I don’t know how to use the remote shutoff command. If you could give me a template that would be great. THANKS!.Version: 1.9.4
✓ Awesome experienceA-shell is really good terminal emulator and environment, it makes an ipad with keyboard a powerful tool 😉.Version: 1.10.1
✓ Omg!!! REALLY???This app is truely amazing. The ios Shortcut support opens up a world of possibilities for me. Thank you so much!.Version: 1.8.1
✓ Great terminal appVery versatile and powerful app.Version: 1.11.3
✓ GoodI have been using the LibTerm app and I recently discovered this app. It seems good so far. The ed command seems to work weird.Version: 1.3
✓ Definitely A best shell for iOSThis app is amazing. Best Python compiler among free apps..Version: 1.11.3
✓ New userLiking the app a lot so far... any plans for "git" or "golang" support?.Version: 1.6.3
✓ Decent Shell experienceAt last, a decent Shell for iOS!.Version: 1.6.1
✓ Amazing, can we add readline shortcuts?<C-p> <C-n> <C-y> I noticed these readline shortcuts are missing. We have <C-a>, <C-k>, <C-d>, <C-l>... can we get the others mentioned above? These are very nice to have thanks for the great emulator awesome work!! Would be neat to have fzf, rg, etc too :).Version: 1.5.0
✓ Great peace of workI enjoy writing code on my iPhone ever since I stumbled upon this app. My recommendation is that Golang should be added to it. Golang compiler please.Version: 1.11.0
✓ Great shell terminal for IPAD.Excelent app to use git and vim. I can coding and push/pull with my repo on IPAD now..Version: 1.9.4
✓ The best terminal appFor an ios app this does nearly everything you need, you can use vars, functions (only works on sh shell, type sh) and aliases. Ssh as well and run python code. Comes with vim which is excellent..Version: 1.12.1
✓ At last, a real terminal appI’ve grown frustrated with several terminal and/or ssh clients that offered limited features, only supported old ciphers, etc. a-Shell is a real working terminal, and is as useful for working with remote BSD and Linux boxes as a terminal app on MacOS. Bravo!.Version: 1.10.7
✓ UsefulThank you v v much for the helpful tool!.Version: 1.8.1
✓ Needs ssh commandThis app is excellent. Can you please provide a package manager or at least ssh command?.Version: 1.8.8
✓ Really shines with integrated SSH clientWhile the ability to navigate around the iOS file system is novel, what I really like is the simple integration of SSH into a-Shell. I can remote login to my home server seamlessly. And a-Shell supplements my keyboard with crucial-to-terminal keys that Apple doesn’t provide: Tab, Control, and Esc..Version: 1.5.1
✓ Simply Awesome!This is exactly what I was looking for (and trying to build as a web app lol). I finally have a use for my iPad !! lol Seriously tho, this is the coolest app to hit the App Store since Pythonista! I’m gonna build so much cool stuff to run on this. 🤓❤️ this 💻 !!!! Yes it has its stupid and unnecessary restrictions, but IMO that’s just Apple being Apple. Not the developer’s fault lol. This is the closest I’ve ever seen to a real computer on iOS. It’s totally amazing and u gotta try it..Version: 1.5.1
✓ Very cool, but a bit limited?This is a very VERY cool app. I love the fact that you are able to actually access real phone files and change them, unlike some fake ones I’ve seen out there. It has many of all the Linux commands as well, which is awesome. One thing I am confused is why it doesn’t have the sudo command, and why I “need permission” to access some files. Overall, as a new Linux user, I find this to be VERY cool. If anyone can help with the permission issue, that would be much appreciated..Version: 1.6.5
✓ ReviewSo far, pretty good. App runs well, I can use python on it (3.9.2+) and it’s one of the best terminal apps on IOS. I’d recommend trying it out! I hope the developer will add the package ‘nano’ in the future, it’s really useful. Apart from that it’s great! Thanks for making such a good app for Apple users! :D.Version: 1.7.2
✓ Missing nanoThis app is great, but the absence and inability to install nano using sudo install nano takes it down just a tiny notch. Nano is just such a simple and easy text editor. My go to for programming. Plz give.Version: 1.12.1
✓ Excellent toolSuch a light-weight tool and works so well! Definitely recommended.Version: 1.8.5
✓ Wonderful app, some suggestionsImpressive shell on IOS. when I use “pip install tensorflow”command, it will always go wrong: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement tensorflow.Version: 1.3
✓ An Amazing AssetA-Shell is an amazing asset for the iPadOS/iOS ecosystem. A fast, feature rich terminal, full python (including modules) and vim support (including plugins), symbolic linking from iCloud files to on-device locations, curl, and much more, it makes the iPad a full computing environment. Thank you for spending what must be many hours on this, and know that this app is used daily..Version: 1.8.1
✓ Thank You !Now I have used it and am delighted to have a shell terminal (or is that terminal shell?). Anyway, thanks :).Version: 1.4.1
✓ PromisingThis is promising! If job control and better completions are added to the shell it would be very good. Also, git being added would allow for a great dev environment..Version: 1.2
✓ The notable boundary-pusher of local command line functions on iOS/iPadOSThere are now quite a few terminal emulator-esque apps on the App Store, but I've been using a-Shell since it was joined only by Blink (from which it was forked) and iSH. As it was then, a-Shell remains the only one of these with which one can actually accomplish command line tasks *locally* beyond screwing around. I am ultimately not a command line native, and I don't have the basic theory beneath my use of Python scripts, yet I've been able to accomplish startlingly powerful things within this app, thanks in large part to gracious and immediately-available support via the project's Discord server. If you've found yourself here by way of a Siri Shortcut's requirement, I would encourage you to take the time to investigate the commands said shortcut(s) run - try running them yourself!.Version: 1.10.2
✓ Amazing shell for iPadVery happy with this shell. Some hiccups are unavoidable but overall quite happy. I am trying to learn more command line stuff and my laptop recently gave up on me. This has been a lifesaver!!.Version: 1.11.3
✓ Love the terminal butI love the terminal but it needs modifier keys on the keyboard. How does one ctrl+c and many other common keybindings? It would be a wonderful terminal if the author would add ctrl, alt, and the super keys. So the developer responded to this review and thank you for explaining where the modifier keys are however it would have been nice to have this information. The icons don’t look like the modifier keys. IMHO the author should use words instead..Version: 1.9.1
✓ Epic ImplementationIt’s very pleasing that we can have such terminal environment in iOS and iPadOS. Still, I have a suggestion: a package manager. If we have access to a package manager like macOS’s Homebrew or Linux’s APT, it would be incredible! I know it’s a hard work, but it would be worth it. I would love to help with doing that, and I’m sure there are other people who feel that way as well. Best of Luck!.Version: 1.5.1
✓ Needs some quality of life improvementsHi dev, if you read this please implement tab completion of commands and parameters for commands. Please also add more buttons on the helper bar (hyphen, double quote, semicolon). the existing tab completion should list all commands matching user input, e.g. if user types pip and hits tab it should list all commands starting with pip including pip, pip3, pip3.9, etc. Thanks for the great app and keep up the awesome work!.Version: 1.7.1
✓ Best of its kindThis developer is doing us all such a service with these free, functional and fully featured apps. I cannot recommend this enough. If you need a terminal, get downloading! The only feedback I have is there’s an absence of ssh-copy-id at present. Not the end of the world but it would be a nice convenience..Version: 1.9.2
✓ The future is now, old manUsing terminal to process Magic Lantern (look it up 😉) files and videos with ffmpeg and other CLI programs taught me the basics of terminal commands, coding, etc., but the ability to sit here 10 years later and run processes on my iPhone that required a $1500 iMac back then makes my special parts tingle. Thanks for creating this app, you the moth@fúckíń man. One question, though. How would one go about updating the native ffmpeg to the latest release on an iPhone Xr? Looks like ffmpeg 5.0 Lorentz is the latest release, and the native a-shell ffmpeg version says 4.4. Thanks..Version: 1.8.5
✓ The BestI tried several other clients to use ssh on them but they’re absolutely useless and required lots of configs to set up. This app allowed to me use ssh just as I use it with a terminal. Tnx..Version: 1.7.2
✓ Surprised Apple even signed, glad though. TyCan we lowkey emulate inside this another copy of the app or the fs unmounted from local to cloud in order to allow for chmod , chown, etc, oh and our own root file system just to emulate Linux even if it is agentless . Right now it looks like Apple wants to give us rw , r, r. Like why bother lol. At least all the python executables are integrating visually but DONT touch it or DARWIN will scream. Smh lol. Apple Apple Apple...⌫☮︎︎🔝☠️☠️☠️📲🕹🔑🗝🛒🎈📦📦📦🔐🔓🔓🔗🖇📂🆔⚛️♨️♨️♨️7️⃣7️⃣7️⃣⏺▶️⏏️🔂🔀↩️♾🔝🔚🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️.Version: 1.4
✓ Five Stars because it *exists* and because of its potential aloneI just downloaded this, and I have fiddled with it a bit, and I am astonished. My little command-line heart went pitter-pat as I was able to successfully do even the simplest things before I have even started to look at the full capabilities. Thank you!.Version: 1.12.1
✓ Hell yeah NicolasI just got the iPad Pro magic keyboard. I’ve been wanting to practice my command line and VIM. aShell will allow me to do both! And I can run Python files. Nicolas, you are the best!!!.Version: 1.4.1
✓ Pretty cool - please add pandasNumpy, scipy, a lot of other good modules. Pandas is equally valuable to many of us. Love the app!.Version: 1.7.5
✓ Awesome!Awesome terminal app! :).Version: 1.10.3
✓ Great emulatorI’m very surprised about how good this terminal is..Version: 1.5.1
✓ Outstanding work!Awesomely nerdy geeky ‘Nixy stuff! Love using..Version: 1.4.2
✓ Unable to use vi in an ssh sessionThe app seemed very slick upon first use. I figured out how to copy ssh keys in order to ssh into my server in the cloud Vim works great running on the iPad (I’m using on the iPad Pro latest) Problem is once ssh’ed into server, any attempt at editing files (using vi) the cursor disappears, nothing works, I have to kill the app UPDATE this issue is fixed by setting the terminal to emulate vt220 and doing a resize after entering the ssh session.Version: 1.5.1
✓ Great for PythonThis is a great tool to run Python directly on your iPad. As long as the programs are text based and us standard libraries (sans tk) you can do a lot of stuff. Really very handy. Thanks for such a great tool..Version: 1.10.3
✓ GoodNice app just needs a little more work.Version: 1.5.1
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✓ AwesomeIt's a surprisingly good shell for ios. Thankyou. I think some more customization would help such as larger arrow keys or maybe a built in dev keyboard with easier special char access..Version: 1.8.5
✓ The missing link - found!Just found this amazing app and it'll get a lot of use! I'll do another review when I've explored fully. The only thing missing (so far) is a donate button/facility!.Version: 1.4
✓ Task warrior for the winI love this app - first proper one that allows me to run task warrior on iOS. One thing it's missing: allowing me to store task warrior data in Dropbox/iCloud instead of the obscure container I can't figure out how to sync! Would be great so that I can use it with my macos. But still - amazing!.Version: 1.3
✓ Python packagesHi ! I like the app but couldn’t figure out if there’s a way to pip install python packages (mostly fails).Version: 1.7.0
✓ VR support anytime?Great app! I see a really cool potential for VR headset and Bluetooth mouse but maybe I’m asking for too much.Version: 1.6.6
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