A-Shell
a-shell-ios.bsky.social
A-Shell
@a-shell-ios.bsky.social
Local terminal for iOS. Run Unix commands locally on your iPad or iPhones. Support, questions, announcements.
This is also the first version of a-Shell compiled with the iOS 26 SDK. You'll notice that the buttons became significantly larger. It's both a good news (easier for user interaction) and a bad news: you can fit fewer buttons on the screen.
November 6, 2025 at 7:06 AM
In my opinion, they both have good points and bad points. But you can add that to the plus column of a-Shell: is present on Bluesky.
November 6, 2025 at 7:00 AM
(a-Shell only):
- fixed an issue with dvipdfmx and user-installed fonts.
August 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Other changes:
- added TIFF and XML support to ImageMagick, updated ImageMagick to version 4.7.0
- added libopus support to ffmpeg
- fixed one issue with ffmpeg and hardware encoding that happens with iOS 26.
- fixed a bug when copying screen content
- fixed several issues with wasm3
August 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
You're welcome!
January 14, 2025 at 8:32 AM
I can suggest myself. It's actually more of a local terminal, that lets you run commands on your iPad, but one of these commands is ssh, so you can also connect to distant computers.
There's also @secureshellfish.app, La Terminal, Blink Shell (hi guys)
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January 6, 2025 at 6:20 PM
And now I have to get back to everyone who asked for h.265 encoding, to whom I replied: "I can't do it, libx265 is covered by the GPL", and update the reply with: "actually I did it, using libkvazaar, which is BSD-licensed" (thanks, guys).
Encode your videos with: "-c:v libkvazaar -tag:v hvc1".
December 9, 2024 at 10:26 AM
That's one of our goals: to let you access the files on your iPad.
December 4, 2024 at 8:23 PM
The changes also mean that ripgrep is now compatible with the Wasm3 engine. You'll have to reinstall it (pkg install rg), but once it's done, it's blazingly *fast*.
November 21, 2024 at 3:52 PM
Sorry for this backward incompatibility, I'm trying really hard to avoid them but this one was just unavoidable. It reverts a bad decision I made 4 years ago.
On the plus side, a-Shell is now immune to the year 2038 bug.
November 21, 2024 at 3:51 PM