
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 --classichttps://snapcraft.io/electermflatpak 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.Electermflatpark.orgcurl -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 electermhttps://repos.electerm.org/debsudo 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 electermhttps://repos.electerm.org/rpmnpm 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
♥ SFTP: type any key in the file list to filter it, always on, replacing the old filter icon (#4648) by @rebelancap
Bug fixes
♥ Fix SSH login for bookmarks without a password (regression from 5.7.5) (#4647)
♥ Fix socks/http proxy connection when the proxy address is IPv6 (#4643) by @Pharex38
♥ Don't let session keepalive submit a half-typed command (#4641) by @Pharex38
♥ Fix version compare when versions have a different number of parts (#4642) by @Pharex38
新功能/界面/更新
♥ SFTP:在文件列表中直接输入关键字即可过滤,默认开启,替换了原来的过滤图标 (#4648)(由 @rebelancap 提供)
问题修复
♥ 修复无密码书签的 SSH 登录问题(5.7.5 引入的回归)(#4647)
♥ 修复代理地址为 IPv6 时的 socks/http 代理连接问题 (#4643)(由 @Pharex38 提供)
♥ 会话保活不再提交输入到一半的命令 (#4641)(由 @Pharex38 提供)
♥ 修复版本号段数不同时的版本比较问题 (#4642)(由 @Pharex38 提供)
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