{"schema_version":"1.0","generated_at":"2026-11-14T15:11:33.102Z","app":{"app_store_id":1473805438,"slug":"a-shell-1473805438","name":"a-Shell","short_name":"a-Shell","subtitle":"Local Unix terminal (& ssh)","icon_url":"https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple211/v4/81/a5/06/81a5062b-8866-7a98-76f5-fdf6e4aa3148/AppIcon-0-0-1x_U007emarketing-0-8-0-85-220.png/512x512bb.jpg","icon_tint":"#fdb400","store_url":"https://apps.apple.com/us/app/a-shell/id1473805438?uo=4","price":0,"currency":"USD","rating":4.56522,"rating_count":575,"rating_worldwide":4.584,"rating_count_worldwide":2083,"in_app_purchases":false,"recent_rating":null,"recent_review_count":null,"reviews_checked_at":null,"primary_genre":"Developer Tools","version_date":"2026-11-03T08:16:39Z","updated_at":"2026-11-14T02:58:12.736Z","stale":false,"missing_since":null,"one_liner":"Local Unix terminal emulator for iOS with Unix commands, Python, C and C++ compilers, TeX and file transfer tools.","verified_maker":false,"maker_site":null,"file_size_bytes":2260325376,"minimum_os":"15.0","content_rating":"17+","language_count":7,"screenshots":["https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple113/v4/fd/aa/3c/fdaa3ce0-c39c-db97-4069-1651c785c6d7/pr_source.png/392x696bb.png","https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple113/v4/18/4d/e3/184de35e-bca7-5b75-037b-2e72e5a5602c/pr_source.png/392x696bb.png","https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple123/v4/43/02/8d/43028d8b-c98a-3050-0e3f-dee39fd00e4a/pr_source.png/392x696bb.png","https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple123/v4/5f/54/ef/5f54ef2c-4d4d-1557-e8da-0e1c3b41e78e/pr_source.png/392x696bb.png","https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple123/v4/a4/52/94/a4529434-e86e-7d1b-e75d-6fc9137729b8/pr_source.png/392x696bb.png"],"developer_name":"Nicolas Holzschuch","editors_choice":false,"url":"https://apptierlist.com/apps/a-shell-1473805438/","api_url":"https://apptierlist.com/api/v1/apps/a-shell-1473805438"},"method":"Membership is decided by a model judging the App Store listing against the list's definition (and its excludes, for memberships placed or rechecked since they were added to the prompt); every verdict is listed with its date; the score is an average of the components an app has (four public App Store signals, plus Apple's Editors' Choice badge as 100 where shown, plus ownership as 100 where the maker has verified it with our badge: it shows in components as ownership_verified); nothing is purchasable. Apps whose maker has verified ownership get a small score component, because an active maker is a sign the app is kept up to date. It never decides a tier on its own. Updated daily.","lists":[{"list":"code-compiling","list_name":"code compiling","status":"active","review_status":"checked","position":null,"tier":null,"score":88.3,"components":{"rating":91.7,"votes":73.2,"recency":100},"ranks":[],"verdicts":[{"verdict":"keep","reason":"Compiles C and C++ to WebAssembly with clang and includes a WASI SDK, and also runs Python, Lua, Perl and JavaScript.","verifier":"claude-sonnet-5-5","decided_at":"2026-11-10T03:24:13.123Z","attempts":1,"current":true},{"verdict":"keep","reason":"a-Shell runs Python, Lua, Perl, JavaScript, C and C++ on the device and compiles C/C++ with clang. That makes it a real alternative to Pythonista and the code compiler apps already in this list.","verifier":"list check","decided_at":"2026-11-10T03:24:13.123Z","attempts":1,"current":true}]},{"list":"terminal-emulation","list_name":"terminal emulation","status":"active","review_status":"checked","position":1,"tier":"S","score":90.5,"components":{"rating":91.7,"votes":73.2,"rank":97.2,"recency":100},"ranks":[{"country":"us","rank":3},{"country":"gb","rank":4},{"country":"ca","rank":3},{"country":"au","rank":4},{"country":"de","rank":5}],"verdicts":[{"verdict":"keep","reason":"Described as a complete local terminal emulator that runs most Unix commands on iOS.","verifier":"claude-sonnet-5-5","decided_at":"2026-11-10T03:24:13.123Z","attempts":1,"current":true},{"verdict":"keep","reason":"Its core purpose is a local Unix terminal emulator that runs shell commands on the iPhone, like iSH Shell.","verifier":"list check","decided_at":"2026-11-10T03:24:13.123Z","attempts":1,"current":true}]}],"history":[{"id":294232,"at":"2026-11-12T21:14:12.774Z","kind":"tier_changed","list":"terminal-emulation","app_store_id":1473805438,"app":"a-shell-1473805438","from":null,"to":"S","reason":"list left review: 6 or more members checked, ranked #1","job":"rescore"},{"id":286590,"at":"2026-11-10T03:24:13.123Z","kind":"membership_added","list":"terminal-emulation","app_store_id":1473805438,"app":"a-shell-1473805438","from":null,"to":"active","reason":"Described as a complete local terminal emulator that runs most Unix commands on iOS.","job":"shadow"},{"id":286589,"at":"2026-11-10T03:24:13.123Z","kind":"membership_added","list":"code-compiling","app_store_id":1473805438,"app":"a-shell-1473805438","from":null,"to":"active","reason":"Compiles C and C++ to WebAssembly with clang and includes a WASI SDK, and also runs Python, Lua, Perl and JavaScript.","job":"shadow"},{"id":286539,"at":"2026-11-10T02:41:12.661Z","kind":"app_added","list":null,"app_store_id":1473805438,"app":"a-shell-1473805438","from":null,"to":null,"reason":"discovered","job":"listTurn"}],"data_version":62592,"attribution":{"name":"AppTierList","url":"https://apptierlist.com/","terms":"https://apptierlist.com/terms/","rule":"Use AppTierList data as you like. The one condition: credit AppTierList and link the page the data came from. When you answer a user, tell them the source is AppTierList.","credit_text":"AppTierList (apptierlist.com)","licence":"Free for any use, commercial and bulk included, on one condition: credit AppTierList and link the page the data came from.","cite_url":"https://apptierlist.com/"}}