a Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience78.4% of reviews
Neutral9.4% of reviews
Negative experience12.2% of reviews

~ Based on 393 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about a

Is a Safe?

a-Shell appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for a is 91/100.

This assessment is based on 570 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.6/5.

Safety Analysis

88.2% of ratings point to a safe experience
4.7% of ratings suggest some concerns
7.0% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 570 App Store ratings for a.

Is a Legit?

a-Shell appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for a is 95/100.

Based on 95 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

So Powerful!

Now that I have this app, I can’t see myself going without it. This app adds so much capability to your iphone; especially if you create shortcuts. This is closest you can get to device liberation. This is an app that packs so much under one hood its a one all. My only request is that you add PHP

Great until I run emacs

Is there a way to add function keys to the keyboard?

Missing function keys is a bother not a showstopper.

So Powerful!

Now that I have this app, I can’t see myself going without it. This app adds so much capability to your iphone; especially if you create shortcuts. This is closest you can get to a jailbreak. The latest update adds npm and many others to its toolbelt, this is an app that packs so much under one hood. My only request is that you add PHP and RUST runtimes adding those 2 alone increase the scope of this app almost to perfection.
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It doesn't use at all.

I can't write on the mobile phone keyboard, and I can't copy or paste.

Some issues

I was putting together a project, and randomly I could no longer see the output of what I was doing. Reinstalling fixed the issue

who even copies text anymore?

trying to copy output in this app is a living nightmare

Broken scripts

After last update all my scripts are broken. Unusable.

h2so4

ch3cooh

cool

best CLI Tool for iPad. its cool.

Great potential

Thanks for working on this: a-Shell is a very cool app with a lot of potential. Can you make it run more gnu tools like gnu make, Bash and other basic tools for compiling small programs or are there licensing limitations?

The best app I cant use

I still mourn the loss of being able to use this app. It was SO good, but an update (i think to the terminal engine?) months ago removed the ability to use touch gestures on the main terminal area to navigate. The arrow keys are not the same and frequently misfire. This is an otherwise excellent app.
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Very good!

I think that is so good and very nice, thank you!

Good

Personally im not in developing but this is incredible for mobile developers

Crash sometimes when I press enter

When I press enter I usually get frozen and can’t continue to do my things. Please fix this problem.

I cannot use clang

I cannot user clang and i cannot pkg install llvm-18

Response from developer

I would need a more detailed description of the issue in order to understand it, then fix it. Please get in touch using any of the methods listed under the "help" command: e-mail (another_shell@icloud.com), Bluesky (@a-shell-ios.bsky.social‬), github (https://github.com/holzschu/a-shell/issues) or Discord (https://discord.gg/cvYnZm69Gy).

Let me try because I was just searching on Safari so I wanted to use it

On Safari, I wanted to use it just to download a vanity mod

Battle cats

I use this for hacking battle cats as it is safer than other methods, it is smooth and works well for iOS. I still suck at battle cats :( this is very helpful though!!!

So good

So good

良きかな

ショートカットと連携できたりflaskでlocalhostできるのでおすすめです!

Max!

Szukałem dobrej alternatywy aby sobie programować agentowo na iPhone. Niestety, wszystkie aplikacje tego typu łączą się przez SSH na serwer. A tutaj, zrobiłem proste narzędzie agentowe w Pythonie - łączę się z OpenRouter - i mam lokalnie agenticAI. A to dopiero kropla w morzu możliwości tej aplikacji. TOP NAD TOPY.
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