Join the a-Shell beta Available on iOS

If you're part of a *very* small crowd that:
a) uses a terminal on iOS or iPadOS, and
b) uses VoiceOver in your workflow,
a-Shell is currently upgrading its rendering system (moving to SwiftTerm by @migueldeicaza.bsky.social ) and I'm looking for more beta-testers.
testflight.apple.com/join/WUdKe3f4

Version 1.17.4 is out on the AppStore (both apps). It fixes issues with Python, shh-agent and lg2.

Version 1.17.3 of a-Shell is now avaibable on the AppStore.
It has a series of bug fixes: ssh-agent, opencv, rsync for local folders, lg2...

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.

Version 1.17.0 of a-Shell is now avaibable on the AppStore.
- big change: Python has been upgraded to version 3.13
- (a-Shell only): now includes scipy, scikit-learn, seaborn...
- new command: rsync (a long requested command)
- tons of bug fixes: less, nnn, scp...

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.

Join the a-Shell beta Available on iOS

The next version of a-Shell is currently available for TestFlight beta testing, with two major Python-related changes:
- version number updated from 3.11 to 3.13
- added scipy and the packages that depend on scipy, like scikit-learn, seaborn, networkx...
testflight.apple.com/join/WUdKe3f4

Join the a-Shell beta Available on iOS

The next version of a-Shell is currently available for TestFlight beta testing, with two major Python-related changes:
- version number updated from 3.11 to 3.13
- added scipy and the packages that depend on scipy, like scikit-learn, seaborn, networkx...
testflight.apple.com/join/WUdKe3f4

« ÉCOURTER UN FICHIER AUDIO (SANS PERTE DE QUALITÉ) SUR IOS – ÉPISODE 2 » by @geekend.bsky.social
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FFMPEG depuis un iPhone ? C’est possible. Le meilleur couteau suisse pour les fichiers audio / video, dans la poche comme il se doit.
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(a-Shell only):
- fixed an issue with dvipdfmx and user-installed fonts.

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

Version 1.16.1 of a-Shell (a terminal for iOS) is now out on the AppStore:
- a new command, "repeatCommand", will execute the command given in argument at regular intervals. repeatCommand with no arguments shows the current command, and "repeatCommand --stop" will stop the repetition.

Good news copyparty runs on iOS with a-shell · Issue #328 · 9001/copyparty I used a-shell to run copyparty and it worked. The only thing I tried was to upload something which also worked. A-shell also inhibits the lock-screen, so it runs until you lock your phone or exit ...

I'm getting reports of people using copyparty on their iPhones using a-Shell. I did not see that one coming, but I'm happy if it can help.
github.com/9001/copypar...

Version 1.16.0 of a-Shell is now out with the texlive-2025 binaries.

The TestFlight version of a-Shell has the texlive-2025 binaries (and you can install a basic texlive-2025 distribution with "pkg install texlive-2025"). If you're an a-Shell TeX user, can you test it before I make it the official release?

You're welcome!

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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)

a-Shell has two types of binaries: native binaries, compiled to Arm64, and WebAssembly binaries. The former have to be embedded with the app, the latter can be downloaded on demand with "pkg". I regularly add new WebAssembly commands. The latest are "morse" and "age", the encryption tool. Enjoy.

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".

Two big news today:
- a-Shell has reached one million installs (cumulated for both apps: 539k for a-Shell, 461k for a-Shell mini)
- we have a new version on the AppStore: 1.15.9
What's new: h.265 encoding for ffmpeg and HEIF decoding for ImageMagick, updated bc, plus *tons* of bug fixes.

That's one of our goals: to let you access the files on your iPad.

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*.

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.

Version 1.15.7 is out on tha AppStore (a-Shell and a-Shell mini).
It fixes issues with the WebAssembly interpreters: how they scan directories, and how they set modification/acces dates.
The bad news is there's a backward incompatibility: if you installed zip or xz, you'll have to reinstall them.

New account, for all announcements related to a-Shell (the iOS terminal app).
New release is version 1.15.7, coming soon, with minor changes.