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
♥ Support client side data encrypt for electerm cloud sync
♥ Support privateKey/certificate file path in bookmark
♥ Support arrow/enter keys to select/open bookmark in bookmark panel
♥ Support payload check before sync to cloud
Bug fixes
♥ Fix bookmark duplicated render by @davinyue
♥ Fix support for webdav http sync
♥ Fix ssh MFA logic
♥ Fix cursor hide issue when open folder select dialog in Windows (#4605)
新功能/界面/更新
♥ 支持 electerm 云同步的客户端数据加密
♥ 支持书签中使用私钥/证书文件路径
♥ 支持在书签面板中使用方向键/回车选择/打开书签
♥ 同步到云端前支持数据量检查
问题修复
♥ 修复书签重复渲染问题（由 @davinyue 提供）
♥ 修复 webdav http 同步支持
♥ 修复 ssh MFA（多因素认证）逻辑
♥ 修复 Windows 下打开文件夹选择对话框时光标隐藏问题 (#4605)
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