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Open-sourced terminal/ssh/sftp/telnet/serialport/RDP/VNC/Spice/ftp client(Linux, Mac, Windows, Android, HarmonyOS, iOS).

Besides mainstream Windows/macOS/Linux/Android, electerm also supports HarmonyOS, iOS, and 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.


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🌐 electerm online — Public free online electerm app
🤖 electerm AI — Free AI for electerm users
💻 electerm-web — Web app version running in browser (including mobile device)

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 Features

- Works as a terminal/file manager, ssh/sftp/ftp/telnet/serialport/RDP/VNC/Spice client
- Support Window 7+(X64/ARM64), HarmonyOS，Android, iOS, Mac OS 10.15+(x64/arm64), Linux(x64/arm64/riscv64/ppc64le/Loong64 new world & old world), even old Linux with glibc 2.17+ like UOS/Kylin/Ubuntu 18.04 etc
- Global hotkey to toggle window visibility (similar to guake, default is ctrl + 2)
- 🇺🇸 🇨🇳 🇧🇷 🇷🇺 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 🇹🇷 🇭🇰 🇯🇵 🇸🇦 🇩🇪 🇰🇷 🇮🇩 🇵🇱 Multi-language support(electerm-locales, contributions/fixes welcome)
- Double click to directly edit (small) remote files.
- All kind of auth methods: publicKey, password, ssh agent, certificates, otp, netbird etc.
- Support Zmodem(rz, sz), and Trzsz(trz/tsz).
- Support ssh related features: tunnel, connection hopping.
- Customizable UI: themes, background image, transparent window(Mac, win).
- Global/session proxy.
- Quick commands/triggers to do predefined tasks and automattic operations
- Sync data including bookmarks to github/gitee secret gist/webdav/custom server/electerm cloud
- Quick input/mirror input to one or all terminals.
- AI assistant integration (supporting multiple