a-Shell
Nicolas Holzschuch Developer Tools
a-Shell is a developer tools app by Nicolas Holzschuch earning an estimated < $5k/mo on the App Store with 30k installs a month. Below are its 5 current App Store screenshots.
- Revenue
- < $5k/mo
- Downloads
- 30k/mo
- Rating
- 4.6 (556)
- Price
- Free
a-Shell App Store screenshots
a-Shell ships 5 screenshots on its App Store listing, one fewer than the Developer Tools median of 6. It ships a single English set, while 26% of Developer Tools apps localize theirs.
How much does a-Shell make?
a-Shell generates an estimated < $5k per month in App Store revenue, from around 30k downloads a month. Its listing holds a 4.6-star rating across 556 ratings. The app has been on the App Store since 2019. Figures are monthly estimates of worldwide App Store performance.
How a-Shell compares
Against the 3,846 top-grossing apps tracked here, a-Shell ranks #3,402 overall and #59 of 148 in Developer Tools. That places it below the Developer Tools median of $5k/mo.
Ranked against the 3,846 top-grossing App Store apps tracked on RevShot. See every Developer Tools app by revenue.
About a-Shell
a-Shell is a complete local terminal emulator, allowing to run most Unix commands on your iOS device. You can transfer files using scp and curl, edit them with vim and ed, process them using grep, awk and sed. You can work with git repositories using lg2. Most commands are compiled for iOS native Arm64 format, making them fast and well integrated with the BSD Unix that powers iOS/iPadOS. a-Shell includes Python, Lua, Perl, JavaScript, C, C++ for programming and TeX (texlive 2025, with Tikz and LuaTeX) for text processing. There are also multiple network utilities: nslookup, ping, whois, ifconfig... Type help for help, help -l to get the full list of commands.
From the App Store listing.
