LexShell
LexShell is #54 in Developer Tools Grossing in United States and charting in 2 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 24 Oct 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperLex Friedman
CategoryDeveloper Tools
PriceFree
Released
Rating★ 4.0 (4)
Version1.5
Age rating4+
First seen by us
3 Oct 2026
Installs (est.)100+ worldwide
Rating
4.0 ★
4 ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#54
Measured
LexShell on the App Store
App details
App ID
6781926609
Publisher
Alexander Friedman
On the store since
Aug 2026
Under a year
Minimum OS
iOS 17.0+
iPhone XS and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase
Content rating
4+
Languages
1
EN
Size
30 MB
Also listed in
Utilities
LexShell downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Apple publishes no download counts. iPhone downloads come from chart positions and daily rating growth per country, calibrated on Google Play install counts; lifetime installs from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Developer ToolsGrossing | #54 | |
| Developer ToolsGrossing | #88 |
Apps near LexShell on the chart
Developer Tools Grossing, around #54.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
4.0 ★
4 ratings
Measured
Ratings
4
Measured
About LexShell
Sometimes you need to SSH into a server. This app helps you do exactly that.
Remote servers, Bonjour servers — we welcome them all. We'll optionally remember the servers you frequently access from a given spot, too; so if you're always connecting to one network from the coffeeshop and another from home, we've got you covered.
With built-in support for the keyboard keys that iOS forgot (Esc, Tab, and Control-combos), a slew of themes, and a ton of functionality included for free.
Need Pro features like 1Password keys, SFTP support throughout iOS, and Snippets? Take a look at a Pro subscription.
EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Remote servers, Bonjour servers — we welcome them all. We'll optionally remember the servers you frequently access from a given spot, too; so if you're always connecting to one network from the coffeeshop and another from home, we've got you covered.
With built-in support for the keyboard keys that iOS forgot (Esc, Tab, and Control-combos), a slew of themes, and a ton of functionality included for free.
Need Pro features like 1Password keys, SFTP support throughout iOS, and Snippets? Take a look at a Pro subscription.
EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Latest updates
1.5
Some UI improvements, especially for when you're dealing with (ugh) connection errors. Now get more details about what's going wrong!
1.4
This one's for everyone who ever opened the file browser, needed something in /var/log or /etc, and hit an invisible wall. The shell always let you cd anywhere — now the file browser keeps up:
• Go up. When you're at the top of the browser, there's a new button that takes you up a level — keep tapping and you'll land at /. Anything your login can read, you can browse.
• Go anywhere. Pick "Go to Folder…" from the menu and type a path. /var/log, ~/projects, even a bare logs relative to where you signed in — LexShell checks it's a real folder and jumps straight there.
• Know where you are. Once you wander off, the title shows the folder you're actually in instead of the server's name.
And as before, if you always want a connection to start somewhere specific, set its directory in the connection editor — that's now just where browsing starts, not a fence.
This update has other improvements to syncing, SFTP, and SSH keys. The syncing improvements include syncing your saved snippets across devices. Phew!