iSH Shell User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience80.1% of reviews
Neutral8.3% of reviews
Negative experience11.6% of reviews

~ Based on 396 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is iSH Shell Safe?

iSH Shell appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for iSH Shell is 94/100.

This assessment is based on 1,230 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

92.8% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.6% of ratings suggest some concerns
4.6% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 1,230 App Store ratings for iSH Shell.

Is iSH Shell Legit?

iSH Shell appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for iSH Shell is 90/100.

Based on 90 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Very cool

Very lightweight and functional even on older iOS versions. Works great on my iPhone SE first gen. I managed to install yt-dlp and some other fun things like neofetch on it. Very neat little Linux container to play with. My only dislike is that it is a bit slow, but that isn’t much of a problem. I have nothing bad to say about this app. 5 stars.
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It’s internal Python is too old

It’s internal Python is too old

Doesn’t fully work

Things like “sudo” and “python” and a lot of others are not inputted Into app..

He was #1

Yep. This thing has gotten me into coding n stuff. I like it a lot! My girlfriend hates it lol

Serious Bugs

I recently installed iSH and it says content unavailable in the files app and the console goes fuzzy.

Great Linux app

I used this to mod my 3DS because my computer broke recently and this app worked perfectly as if I was using my computer. Simple and easy to use (if you know what you’re doing) and my 3DS is fully modded and I’m playing tomodachi life rn❤️✌️😼

Real good

Can run all alpine commands, you might as well make a server out of it! I tried running rm -rf /*, and I got error code 2! Realistic!

Perfect!

I’m using this with an iPad mini 6 and a Logitech Keys-To-Go. I have wanted linux on my iPad for the longest time. It’s great! For anyone who is reading this review and is not the developers, if your external keyboard isn’t working, just turn off full keyboard access. Anyway, that sums up my review!
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hoi lag

edit big C file kinda laggy with Neovim

最强 App

没有之一

Useful

Sadly its not maintained anymore

Beautiful example of how to not be stupidly greedy

The app works great. It’s a perfect replacement for the constant low-quality garbage in the App Store.

Soooo close

On the one hand, this app is a technical marvel. On the other hand… it’s hard to interact with. For example, the app presents a single, four-way arrow key, which you are supposed to hold and drag. It is essentially impossible to input a single arrow key press, which is a ubiquitous part of terminal usage. When you select text to copy, the interface jitters all around. These problems seem trivial compared with the complexity of the technical challenges this app has overcome, but nonetheless they prevent the app from being very useful.
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the best iphone app for script kids, linux shell users

If you learn the basics of busybox and alpine linux this app will balloon the capabilities of your iphone. I’m sure there are many limitations (for two, it opens blurry sometimes and i have to close it and reopen, and using custom fonts seems to not work great) but it feels like nearly everything I normally do in a TTY simply works. The ability to ssh into my main pc or link together commands and scripts to do advanced sorting and archiving on files or write code with TMUX and neovim while im out and about feels like a new horizon for nerds who feel stuck with IOS.
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Useless on iOS 26

No network. :(
localhost:~# ifconfig
ifconfig: /proc/net/dev: No such file or directory
ifconfig: ioctl 0x8912 failed: Not a tty

Super Useful and Completely free!

Allowed me to use important CLI tools on my phone when I had no access to my PC highly recommend!

Best mobile linux terminal I’ve ever used

This is the best software ive ever used and all of the commands are super easy and navigation is perfect. Ive tried many different mobile terminals and this one allow for easy ssh into remote servers and is absolutely perfect from customization to functionality.

Not useful

Packages from default apk does not work. Tested on micro. Every restart rewrites resolv.conf… Persistance is bad. No network stack, only ping. Breaks af on every task I try. For what is it? Ssh client? Calling ls or cd on empty pr default directories? Installing from apk breaked during non persistent resolv.conf so nothing works ok.
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Amazing

It is the best and the only Terminal app that really works.

Very Impressive

This VM is extremely impressive. It’s definitely not for people who haven’t used command-line Linux distros before.
It’s a VERY barebones alpine Linux install; it doesn’t even have the sudo packages by default.
It’s crazy how the developer was able to make a (mostly) functional Linux VM that works on iOS. Plus there are no ads or subscriptions :)
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