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Package name

  • electerm

License

  • MIT

Last updated

  • 25 September 2026 - latest/stable
  • 25 September 2026 - latest/edge

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Open-sourced terminal/ssh/sftp/telnet/serialport/RDP/VNC/Spice/ftp client(Linux, Mac, Windows, Android, HarmonyOS, iOS).

Open-sourced terminal/ssh/sftp/telnet/serialport/RDP/VNC/Spice/ftp client(Linux, Mac, Windows, Android, HarmonyOS, iOS).

Besides mainstream Windows/macOS/Linux/Android, electerm also supports HarmonyOS, iOS, and older systems — Ubuntu 18, Windows 7, macOS 10+, and special Chinese Linux distributions such as UOS, Kylin, and LoongArch (both old-world and new-world), as well as RISC-V (riscv64) and PowerPC 64-bit little-endian (ppc64le) Linux.

[Homepage / Downloads](https://electerm.org) · [Theme](https://theme.electerm.org) · [Docker](https://github.com/electerm/electerm-web-docker) · [Online demo](https://demo.electerm.org) · [Android](https://github.com/electerm/electerm-android) · [HarmonyOS](https://github.com/electerm/electerm-harmony) · [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/cn/app/electerm/id6792971552) · [Huawei AppGallery](https://appgallery.huawei.com/app/detail?id=org.electerm.electerm) · [Microsoft Store](https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9NCN7272GTFF) · [Snap Store](https://snapcraft.io/electerm) · [deb repo](https://repos.electerm.org/deb) · [rpm repo](https://repos.electerm.org/rpm)

🌐 [electerm online](https://cloud.electerm.org) — Public free online electerm app 🤖 [electerm AI](https://ai.electerm.org) — Free AI for electerm users 💻 [electerm-web](https://github.com/electerm/electerm-web) — Web app version running in browser (including mobile device)

## Features

  • Works as a terminal/file manager, ssh/sftp/ftp/telnet/serialport/RDP/VNC/Spice client
  • Support Window 7+(X64/ARM64), HarmonyOS,Android, iOS, Mac OS 10.15+(x64/arm64), Linux(x64/arm64/Loong64 new world & old world), even old Linux with glibc 2.17+ like UOS/Kylin/Ubuntu 18.04 etc
  • Global hotkey to toggle window visibility (similar to guake, default is ctrl + 2)
  • 🇺🇸 🇨🇳 🇧🇷 🇷🇺 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 🇹🇷 🇭🇰 🇯🇵 🇸🇦 🇩🇪 🇰🇷 🇮🇩 🇵🇱 Multi-language support([electerm-locales](https://github.com/electerm/electerm-locales), contributions/fixes welcome)
  • Double click to directly edit (small) remote files.
  • All kind of auth methods: publicKey, password, ssh agent, certificates, otp, netbird etc.
  • Support Zmodem(rz, sz), and [Trzsz](https://github.com/trzsz/trzsz)(trz/tsz).
  • Support ssh related features: tunnel, connection hopping.
  • Customizable UI: themes, background image, transparent window(Mac, win).
  • Global/session proxy.
  • Quick commands/triggers to do predefined tasks and automattic operations
  • Sync data including bookmarks to github/gitee secret gist/webdav/custom server/electerm cloud
  • Quick input/mirror input to one or all terminals.
  • AI assistant integration (supporting multiple LLM API formats — OpenAI Chat Completions, OpenAI Responses, and Anthropic Messages) to help with command suggestions, script writing, and explaining selected terminal content, create bookmarks/themes, and agent mode to directly do terminal operations
  • MCP (Model Context Protocol) widget for AI assistants and external tools integration - see [MCP Widget Usage Guide](https://github.com/electerm/electerm/wiki/MCP-Widget-Usage-Guide)
  • Deep link support: Open connections with URLs like telnet://192.168.2.31:34554 or ssh://user@host:22 - see [Deep link support wiki](https://github.com/electerm/electerm/wiki/Deep-link-support)
  • Command line usage: check [wiki](https://github.com/electerm/electerm/wiki/Command-line-usage)
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