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 --classiccurl -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
♥ UI: Fullscreen for VNC/RDP/Spice would take full size of screen (#4536)
♥ UI: Responsive tab UI for mobile mode
♥ Support Riscv64 Linux (#4532)
♥ Support ppc64le Linux (#4531)
♥ Support save download to mobile device disk
♥ Support 'select text' context menu for touch device in terminal for easy text select copy operation
♥ Update theme list, add dicker's hackdio from @mastwet
♥ #4533 Allow left side panel min width to be 200px
♥ UX: Support more key combination in shortcut bar custom editor
♥ Support save history command to quick command or run in multi terminals
♥ #3648 Support restore session in local terminal
♥ #4472 Add 'Disable Confirm For Large Clipboard Content' terminal setting
Bug fixes
♥ UI: Fix theme form UI, avoid scroll bar
♥ UX: Fix open sync setting function
♥ Fix memory leak
新功能/界面/更新
♥ 界面：VNC/RDP/Spice 全屏时会占据整个屏幕尺寸 (#4536)
♥ 界面：移动模式下响应式标签页界面
♥ 支持 Riscv64 Linux (#4532)
♥ 支持 ppc64le Linux (#4531)
♥ 支持将下载保存到移动设备磁盘
♥ 支持触屏设备在终端中通过“选择文本”右键菜单方便地选中复制文本
♥ 更新主题列表, 添加了 @mastwet 的 dicker's hackdio
♥ #4533 允许左侧面板最小宽度为 200px
♥ 体验：快捷栏自定义编辑器支持更多按键组合
♥ 支持将历史命令保存为快捷命令或在多个终端中运行
♥ #3648 支持在本地终端中恢复会话
♥ #4472 新增“禁用大剪贴板内容确认”终端设置
问题修复
♥ 界面：修复主题表单界面，避免出现滚动条
♥ 体验：修复打开同步设置功能
♥ 修复内存泄漏问题
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