electerm — Free Open-Source Terminal/SSH/SFTP/Telnet/Serial Port/RDP/VNC/Spice/FTP Client
Free and open-sourced terminal/ssh/sftp/telnet/serialport/RDP/VNC/Spice/ftp client (Linux, Mac, Windows, Android, HarmonyOS, iOS)
Besides mainstream Windows/macOS/Linux/Android/HarmonyOS/iOS, electerm also supports 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.
Features
Everything you need in a terminal client
Open-Sourced All-in-One Client
Free and open-sourced terminal, file manager, and SSH/SFTP/FTP/Telnet/Serial port/RDP/VNC/Spice client in one app.
Secure Auth
Supports publicKey + password authentication, global and per-session proxy, SSH tunneling, Agent forwarding, port forwarding, X11 forwarding, and connection hopping.
AI Assistant
Works with all major LLM API formats — OpenAI Chat Completions, OpenAI Responses, and Anthropic Messages. Generate commands, explain commands, generate scripts, create bookmarks from natural language, and run tasks directly in Agent mode.
Free AI for electerm users →Remote File Editing
Double-click to directly edit remote files via integrated SFTP file manager with drag and drop.
Multi-tab Terminal
Multiple terminal sessions in tabs with split panes, quick input to one or all terminals.
Global Hotkey
Toggle window visibility with a global hotkey (default Ctrl+2), similar to Guake-style drop terminals.
Themes & Customization
UI/terminal themes, terminal background images, transparent windows on Mac and Windows.
Multi-language
14+ languages via community translations. Contributions and fixes welcome.
MCP & Deep Links
MCP widget for AI assistants and external tools. Open connections via URLs like ssh://user@host:22.
Cloud Sync
Sync bookmarks, themes, and quick commands to GitHub/Gitee secret gists, WebDAV, or custom servers.
Zmodem & Trzsz
Supports Zmodem (rz/sz) and Trzsz (trz/tsz) file transfer, compatible with tmux.
Cross-platform
Windows 7+ (x64/ARM64), macOS 10.15+ (x64/arm64), Linux (x64/arm64/armv7/LoongArch64/RISC-V/ppc64le), Android, iOS, HarmonyOS, including glibc 2.17+.
Download
Free and open-source — choose your platform (Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, HarmonyOS, iOS)
npm i -g electermbrew install --cask electermnpm i -g electermsudo snap install electerm --classicflatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flatpark https://dl.flatpark.org/flatpark.flatpakrepo
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
flatpak install flatpark org.electerm.Electermcurl -fsSL https://repos.electerm.org/deb/public.key | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/electerm.gpg
echo "deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/electerm.gpg] https://repos.electerm.org/deb stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/electerm.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y electermsudo rpm --import https://repos.electerm.org/rpm/public.key
sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/electerm.repo <<'EOF'
[electerm]
name=Electerm Repository
baseurl=https://repos.electerm.org/rpm/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
repo_gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://repos.electerm.org/rpm/public.key
EOF
sudo dnf install -y electermnpm i -g electermResources
Everything you need to get started
Official
Ecosystem
- Electerm Online
- APT Repository
- RPM Repository
- electerm-web
- electerm-web-docker
- electerm-locales
- electerm cloud
- electerm AI — Free AI for electerm users
- electerm theme — Create/share theme site with live preview and AI creation
- electerm-android
- electerm-harmony (HarmonyOS)
- electerm on AppGallery (HarmonyOS)
- electerm-ios (iOS)
- electerm on Apple App Store (iOS)
Release Notes
What's new in the latest version
New features/UI/Updates
♥ SSH tunnel: support remote dynamic forwarding, a SOCKS5 proxy on the remote server whose connections go out through your own network (#4658)
♥ Widget: import a widget straight from a GitHub/AtomGit repository (`owner/repo`, `owner/repo#branch`, a monorepo subfolder, `git@` URL), alongside the existing folder import
♥ Widget: a widget can now offer an AI config (endpoint, model, key) for you to review and apply with one click, instead of asking you to copy values by hand (#4591)
♥ Support exporting the selected bookmarks to a JSON file from the bookmark multi-select dialog
♥ Much faster local file listing: one round trip per directory instead of two per entry, and worker replies are dispatched through a single listener (#4663)
♥ Linux: the deb package now declares its runtime dependencies, so installing on a minimal system pulls them in instead of the app failing to start (#4659) (#2709)
♥ Improve about page UI
Bug fixes
♥ Fix `known_hosts` wildcard matching: rules like `*.example.com` never matched, and `@cert-authority` entries were treated as a host key mismatch
♥ Fix the terminal tab closing itself when the connection dropped: only a clean exit (status 0) closes the tab, a signalled or failed session keeps the tab and its output (#4629)
♥ Fix paste in full-screen apps (tmux/vim/less): a bare Ctrl+V now reaches the app in the alternate screen, only Ctrl+Shift+V is treated as paste (#4656)
♥ Fix AI parallel tool calls when the stream sends no `tool_call` index by @pcbeingused333
♥ Fix the bookmark tree select: searching now expands the branches that match, and clearing the box restores your own expansion
♥ Fix the shutdown hang on Wayland, and fall back to software rendering on the launch after a GPU process crash (#4654)
♥ Fix the local FTP server widget: FTPS now really upgrades the connection with AUTH TLS, the passive port is released when the server stops, and FTP bounce attempts are rejected
新功能/界面/更新
♥ SSH 隧道：支持远程动态转发，在远程服务器上开放 SOCKS5 代理，连接从你自己的网络出去 (#4658)
♥ 小组件：支持直接从 GitHub/AtomGit 仓库导入小组件（`owner/repo`、`owner/repo#分支`、monorepo 子目录、`git@` 地址），原有的本地文件夹导入保留
♥ 小组件：小组件可以提供一个 AI 配置（接口地址、模型、密钥），由你确认后一键应用，不用再手动复制 (#4591)
♥ 支持在书签多选对话框中把选中的书签导出为 JSON 文件
♥ 本地文件列表速度大幅提升：每个目录只需一次请求，工作线程的回复也改为单个监听器分发 (#4663)
♥ Linux：deb 包补充了运行依赖声明，在精简系统上安装时会自动装上依赖，而不是启动失败 (#4659) (#2709)
♥ 改善关于页面界面
问题修复
♥ 修复 `known_hosts` 通配符匹配问题：`*.example.com` 这类规则一直无法匹配，`@cert-authority` 条目也会被误判为主机密钥不匹配
♥ 修复连接断开时终端标签页自行关闭的问题：现在只有正常退出（状态码 0）才关闭标签页，被信号终止或异常退出的会话会保留标签页和输出 (#4629)
♥ 修复全屏程序（tmux/vim/less）中粘贴失效的问题：备用屏幕下单独的 Ctrl+V 交给程序处理，只有 Ctrl+Shift+V 才作为粘贴 (#4656)
♥ 修复 AI 并行工具调用在流式响应缺少 `tool_call` index 时出错的问题（由 @pcbeingused333 提供）
♥ 修复书签树选择框：搜索时会自动展开匹配的分支，清空搜索后恢复你原来的展开状态
♥ 修复 Wayland 下退出卡死的问题，并在 GPU 进程崩溃后的下次启动自动改用软件渲染 (#4654)
♥ 修复本地 FTP 服务器小组件：FTPS 现在会真正通过 AUTH TLS 升级连接，服务器停止时会释放被动端口，并拒绝 FTP bounce 攻击
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