About electerm

electerm is a free and open-source terminal/SSH/SFTP/telnet/serialport/RDP/VNC/Spice/ftp client for Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Built with web technologies (Electron, React, CSS), electerm combines a full-featured terminal emulator with a graphical SFTP file manager and multiple remote connection protocols in one app. The source code is available on GitHub under the MIT License.

Features

• Works as a terminal/file manager or SSH/SFTP/FTP/telnet/serialport/RDP/VNC/Spice client
• Supports Windows 7+ (x64/ARM64), macOS 10.15+ (x64/arm64), Linux (x64/arm64/Loong64), including older Linux with glibc 2.17+ (UOS, Kylin, Ubuntu 18.04, etc.)
• Global hotkey to toggle window visibility (similar to Guake, default Ctrl+2)
• Multi-platform (Linux, macOS, Windows)
• 14+ languages via community translations — contributions welcome at electerm-locales
• Double-click to directly edit remote files
• Authentication with publicKey + password
• Zmodem (rz/sz) file transfer
• SSH tunnel support
• Trzsz (trz/tsz) support, similar to rz/sz and compatible with tmux
• Transparent window (macOS, Windows)
• Terminal background image
• Global/session proxy
• Quick commands
• UI/terminal theme customization
• Sync bookmarks/themes/quick commands to GitHub/Gitee secret gist, WebDAV, custom server, or electerm cloud
• Quick input to one or all terminals
• AI assistant integration (supporting DeepSeek, OpenAI, and any OpenAI-compatible API) for command suggestions, script writing, and explaining selected terminal content
• MCP (Model Context Protocol) widget for AI assistants and external tools integration — see MCP Widget Usage Guide
• Deep link support: open connections via URLs like telnet://192.168.2.31:34554 or ssh://user@host:22
• Command line usage — see wiki

Quick Links

Install

electerm can be installed in several ways:

macOS

brew install --cask electerm

Windows

Via winget:

winget install electerm.electerm

Or via Scoop:

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

Linux

Via Snap:

sudo snap install electerm --classic

From Debian repository (Debian/Ubuntu-based systems):

https://repos.electerm.org/deb

From npm:

npm i -g electerm

Development

electerm is built with Node.js and Electron. Requirements: Node.js 24.x.

git clone [email protected]: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

Support the Project

electerm is open-source and maintained by ZHAO Xudong. You can support the project through:

• GitHub Sponsors
• Ko-fi
• WeChat donation (scan QR code on the home page)

License

electerm is released under the MIT License.