Electerm

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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.

Sponsors

Atlas Cloud provides OpenAI-compatible AI APIs and model access for AI-powered workflows in electerm.

PackyCode — Access leading AI models through PackyCode with one API endpoint and one API key. Enjoy fast, reliable access with automatic failover and dedicated high-speed routes for Codex and Claude Code. Get started with $1 in free credits, a discount on your first top-up, and savings of up to 80% on eligible routes. Pay in RMB with no currency conversion markups or extra top-up fees.

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Thanks to APIMart for sponsoring electerm! APIMart is a low-cost API platform for AI image & video generation — GPT-Image-2 from $0.006/image, 160+ images per dollar. One async API covers both image and video: submit a task, get an ID, fetch results via polling or callback. Batch tens of thousands of images without timeouts, switch models without changing code. Pay-as-you-go with no monthly fee — sign up here to get started.

ApiSmart provides unified access to leading AI models through a single API. Use one API key to connect with LLM, image, and video models through an OpenAI-compatible interface, without managing multiple providers separately. Switch models easily, simplify billing, and improve reliability with intelligent routing and automatic failover. Build and scale AI applications faster with one streamlined API platform.

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/riscv64/ppc64le/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, 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(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
• Deep link support: Open connections with URLs like telnet://192.168.2.31:34554 or ssh://user@host:22 - see Deep link support wiki
• Command line usage: check wiki

Install

• For Mac user: brew install --cask electerm
• With snap: sudo snap install electerm --classic
• For some Linux distribution, you can find it from OS default App store(Ubuntu, Deepin, Mint...).
• For some linux OS, the rpm, deb, or snap release may not work, you can try the tar.gz or .appImage release.
• For Windows users, you can install it from windows store, command-line installer winget and scoop is also recommended:

# winget https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli
winget install electerm.electerm

# scoop https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop
scoop bucket add dorado https://github.com/chawyehsu/dorado
scoop install dorado/electerm

• Install from Debian repository (for Debian/Ubuntu-based systems) with apt command

Check https://repos.electerm.org/deb

• Install from npm

npm i -g electerm

Upgrade

• Auto upgrade: When a new version is released, you will get an upgrade notification after you start electerm again. You can then click the upgrade button to upgrade.
• Download: Just download the latest edition, reinstall.
• Npm: If you install from npm, just run npm i -g electerm again.
• If use Snap or some other distribution system, these systems may provide upgrades.

Known issues

https://github.com/electerm/electerm/wiki/Know-issues

Troubleshoot

https://github.com/electerm/electerm/wiki/Troubleshoot

Discussion

Discussion board

Support

Would love to hear from you, please tell me what you think, submit an issue, Start a new discussion, create/fix language files or create pull requests, all welcome.

Sponsor this project

github sponsor

https://github.com/sponsors/electerm

kofi

https://ko-fi.com/zhaoxudong

wechat donate

TRON TRN20

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Dev

# May only works in Linux
# needs nodejs/npm, suggest using nvm to install nodejs/npm
# with nodejs 24.x

git clone git@github.com:electerm/electerm.git
cd electerm
npm config set legacy-peer-deps true
npm i

# start vite dev server, requires port 5570
npm start

# in a separate terminal session run app
npm run app

# code format check
npm run lint

# code format fix
npm run fix

Test

npm run b
npm run prepare-test
cp ./src/build/.sample.env ./.env

# edit .env, fill your test host/username/password, may only works in mac OS
npm run test

Test build

# May only works in Linux
# Install yarn first(to do yarn autoclean)
# See https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/install

# Build linux only with -l
npm i
npm run b
npm run pb
./node_modules/.bin/electron-builder --linux tar.gz
# or replace tar.gz to rpm/deb/AppImage
# check dist/ folder

# build for linux arm/
./node_modules/.bin/electron-builder --linux --arm64

Video guide

• https://electerm.org/videos

Change log

Visit Releases.

Contact author

zxdong@gmail.com

License

MIT

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