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.
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 536 ratings. The app has been on the App Store since 2019. Figures are monthly estimates of worldwide App Store performance.
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.