Terminal for iOS gets particularly interesting because you can interact with iCloud Drive from it, so you can make and modify directories and files on the fly, and if you split screen the Files app with Terminal app you can watch it all unfold.

Because the command line is completely sandboxed, it can also offer a nice and relatively safe way for beginners and more novice users to explore the command line, since all of the commands included in Terminal for iOS will work in Terminal for MacOS, as well as other unix environments. We have the full supported commands list further below if you’re interested in this, as does the apps description in the iOS App Store. Optionally, you can Get OpenTerm from GitHub here and then side load the app onto iPhone or iPad with these instructions using Xcode and a Mac.ĭownload the app to your device, the icon looks much like the same-named app on the Mac, and launch it on your iPhone or iPad to have some fun. Get OpenTerminal for iOS on the App Store for free.Update: the developer changed the name to OpenTerm from Terminal, but the application otherwise remains the same. Terminal for iOS works great on both the iPad and iPhone, and while it’s probably best suited for iPad due to the larger screen size, it’s still fun to play with on an iPhone with a smaller display. Terminal is a sandboxed command line environment for iOS that has over 30 commands currently available, covering many of the most used command line tools and commands you know and love, like cat, grep, curl, gzip and tar, ln, ls, cd, cp, mv, rm, wc, and more, all available right on your iPhone or iPad.

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