Shell Keyboard Downloads & RevenueShell Keyboard · App Store
56 days old
Shell Keyboard is #5 in Developer Tools Paid in United States and charting in 14 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 11 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperNguyen Nguyen
CategoryDeveloper Tools
Price1.99 USD
Released
Rating★ 4.0 (2)
Version1.3.0
Age rating4+
First seen by us
25 Sep 2026
25 Sep 2026✏️Description updated💰Price rise✏️New iPad screenshots📈Hit #1📦Updated to version 1.3.0💰Price rise📈Hit #1📦Updated to version 1.2.0🆕Its developer released another app: Palim: Scratchpad🆕First spotted by AppInsider
Full timeline · 40 events
- ✏️Shell Keyboard: description updated· PH
- 💰Shell Keyboard: price rise49.00 PHP → 129.00 PHP · PH
- ✏️Shell Keyboard: new iPad screenshots· PH
- ✏️Shell Keyboard: new screenshots9 screenshots (was 9) · PH
- 📈Shell Keyboard hit #1Top Paid · Developer Tools · IT
- ✏️Shell Keyboard: description updated· 15 countries
- ✏️Shell Keyboard: new iPad screenshots· 15 countries
- ✏️Shell Keyboard: new screenshots9 screenshots (was 9) · 15 countries
- 📦Shell Keyboard updated to version 1.3.0• iPhone Duo: Shell Keyboard now supports Apple's foldable. Open it, and the keyboard gets the iPad's 60% and 75% layouts, 75% by default, with a number row, F1–F12 and inverted-T arrows. Close it, and it's the iPhone keyboard. It switches as you fold and unfold.
• On the 75% layout, the arrow keys now sit inside one clean inverted-T outline.
Still no Full Access, no network, and nothing you type is ever read, stored or sent.… more - 💰Shell Keyboard: price rise0.99 GBP → 1.99 GBP · GB
- 📈Shell Keyboard hit #1Top Paid · Developer Tools · GB
- 💰Shell Keyboard: price rise1.99 AUD → 2.99 AUD · AU
- 💰Shell Keyboard: price rise2.99 AED → 7.99 AED · AE
- 💰Shell Keyboard: price rise6.90 BRL → 12.90 BRL · BR
- 📈Shell Keyboard hit #1Top Paid · Developer Tools · FR
- 💰Shell Keyboard: price rise0.99 USD → 1.99 USD · US
- 💰Shell Keyboard: price rise4.99 SAR → 9.99 SAR · SA
- 💰Shell Keyboard: price rise150.00 JPY → 300.00 JPY · JP
- 💰Shell Keyboard: price rise99.00 INR → 199.00 INR · IN
- 💰Shell Keyboard: price rise19000.00 IDR → 39000.00 IDR · ID
- 💰Shell Keyboard: price rise0.99 EUR → 1.99 EUR · DE
- 💰Shell Keyboard: price rise8.00 CNY → 15.00 CNY · CN
- 💰Shell Keyboard: price rise0.99 CAD → 2.99 CAD · CA
- ✏️Shell Keyboard: description updated· BR, AE
- ✏️Shell Keyboard: new iPad screenshots· BR, AE
- ✏️Shell Keyboard: new screenshots9 screenshots (was 6) · BR, AE
- ✏️Shell Keyboard: description updated· 6 countries
- ✏️Shell Keyboard: new iPad screenshots· 6 countries
- ✏️Shell Keyboard: new screenshots9 screenshots (was 6) · 6 countries
- 📦Shell Keyboard updated to version 1.2.0New in 1.2:
• iPad gets a real keyboard: 60% and 75% layouts, the compact boards terminal users already know. A number row, Caps Lock, F1–F12, Home/End/PgUp/PgDn and inverted-T arrows, all on one screen, and Shift types the symbol printed on each key. iPad now opens in the 75% layout; to go back, open the keyboard's Settings → Layout → ShellKey.
• Themes: seven color themes for the keyboard, including Void (pure black) and High Contrast.
• Appearance: keep the keyboard light or dark everywhere, or let it match each app.
• The app now shows what's new, previews every theme, and explains where the keyboard's settings live and why.
Still no Full Access, no network, and nothing you type is ever read, stored or sent.… more - 📈Shell Keyboard hit #1Top Paid · Developer Tools · DE
- 🆕Shell Keyboard: its developer released another app: Palim: Scratchpad
- 📈Shell Keyboard hit #1Top Paid · Developer Tools · CA
- 📈Shell Keyboard hit #1Top Paid · Developer Tools · US
- 📦Shell Keyboard updated to version 1.1.0Minor improvements to the Shell Keyboard app.
- 🆕Shell Keyboard first spotted by AppInsider#41 in Top Paid · Developer Tools · United States
- 🆕Shell Keyboard: its developer released another app: Shell SSH
- 🆕Shell Keyboard: its developer released another app: Chordindex
- 📦Shell Keyboard version 1.0No release notes
- 🆕Shell Keyboard released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Rating
4.0 ★
2 ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#5
Developer Tools PaidMeasured
Shell Keyboard at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-11-10. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
Shell Keyboard is a specialized iOS custom keyboard that provides essential terminal control keys and ANSI escape sequences for developers using SSH or local shell applications. The app currently holds the #1 position in US Developer Tools Paid charts, with strong rankings in Germany, Brazil, and India, indicating high demand among mobile developers despite having only one user rating.
Similar apps: Blink Shell, Termius, iSH
Shell Keyboard on the App Store
App details
App ID
6811290737
Publisher
Nguyen Nguyen
On the store since
Sep 2026
Under a year
Minimum OS
iOS 16.0+
iPhone 8 and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase
Content rating
4+
Languages
1
EN
Size
3 MB
App privacy Measured
Shell Keyboard declares it collects no data at all — the rarest and most private label on the App Store.
Declared label
Data Not Collected
As declared by the developer on the App Store — Apple requires every app to publish this label. We track changes over time.
Where Shell Keyboard's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Business model: Paid app
How Shell Keyboard makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
Ads · 1 ad networks
Ads
/mo
of revenue
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Developer ToolsPaid | #5 |
 Brazil | Developer ToolsPaid | #5 |
 Germany | Developer ToolsPaid | #10 |
 Australia | Developer ToolsPaid | #6 |
 China | Developer ToolsPaid | #21 |
 Russia | Developer ToolsPaid | #5 |
 India | Developer ToolsPaid | #7 |
| Russia | Developer ToolsGrossing | #23 |
 Japan | Developer ToolsPaid | #60 |
 Italy | Developer ToolsPaid | #15 |
| India | Developer ToolsGrossing | #42 |
| Australia | Developer ToolsGrossing | #55 |
| Brazil | Developer ToolsGrossing | #59 |
 United Kingdom | Developer ToolsPaid | #92 |
 France | Developer ToolsPaid | #68 |
 Canada | Developer ToolsPaid | #103 |
 United Arab Emirates | Developer ToolsPaid | #53 |
 Indonesia | Developer ToolsPaid | #82 |
Apps near Shell Keyboard on the chart
Developer Tools Paid, around #5.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
4.0 ★
2 ratings
Measured
Ratings
2
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
under 1
4-week average
Lifetime rating
4.0★
recent stars not readable yet: new ratings are a tiny share of the total
Review momentum
62/100
faster than 70% of Developer Tools apps
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about Shell Keyboard
From recent reviews.
About Shell Keyboard
Shell Keyboard adds the keys a terminal actually needs — the ones iOS's default keyboard leaves out.
Working over SSH or in a local shell needs Ctrl, Esc, Tab, arrow keys, and function keys, none of which exist on the standard iOS keyboard. Shell Keyboard is a custom keyboard built specifically for terminal apps like Blink, Termius, Prompt, a-Shell and iSH — it sends the exact ASCII control codes and ANSI/VT escape sequences your terminal expects, the same bytes a physical keyboard would send.
NEW: IPHONE DUO
Shell Keyboard supports iPhone Duo. Open it, and the keyboard spreads out into the same 60% and 75% layouts as iPad, 75% by default. Close it, and it's the iPhone keyboard again. It switches as you fold and unfold.
A REAL KEYBOARD ON IPAD AND IPHONE DUO
Choose a 60% or 75% layout, the compact keyboards terminal users already type on. The 75% layout puts Esc, F1–F12, a number row, Caps Lock, Home, End, Page Up, Page Down and inverted-T arrow keys on one screen, and Shift types the symbol printed on each key, just like a physical keyboard. The 60% layout keeps the function keys, navigation and arrows one fn press away. iPad opens in the 75% layout; the original ShellKey layout is one tap away in Settings.
WHAT'S INCLUDED
• A dedicated terminal layer: Ctrl, Alt, Esc, Tab, arrow keys, Home/End/PgUp/PgDn, and the punctuation a shell prompt uses constantly
• Ctrl and Alt as proper modifiers — latch one for a single keypress, or double-tap to lock it on, like a hardware keyboard
• A full function-key layer: tap fn and the top row becomes F1 through F12, while every other row stays exactly where it was
• Arrow keys that match the app you're in — Normal for shells, Application for vim, tmux, less and htop, or Move the Cursor for ordinary text fields
• Return or Enter: long-press the Return key to switch between a carriage return and a line feed
• A plain QWERTY layer and a complete symbols layer, for ordinary text — hostnames, paths, commit messages — without leaving the keyboard
• Seven themes — Shell, Ember, Glacier, Dusk, Moss, Void (pure black) and High Contrast — each in light and dark, and an Appearance option to keep the keyboard light or dark everywhere
• On iPad and an open iPhone Duo, 60% and 75% layouts (75% by default), described above
• A searchable reference inside the app, listing every key alongside the exact escape sequence and hex bytes it sends
• Every key emits the exact byte sequence a real terminal expects
SETTINGS LIVE IN THE KEYBOARD
Touch and hold the key with the small gear (or tap the gear key on the 60% and 75% layouts) for Haptic feedback, Theme, Appearance and, on iPad and an open iPhone Duo, Layout. They live in the keyboard itself because, without Full Access, iOS keeps a keyboard and its app apart, and Shell Keyboard never asks for Full Access.
BUILT FOR PRIVACY
Shell Keyboard never asks for Full Access. It cannot reach the network. It never reads, stores, or transmits anything you type — every key it sends is d
Working over SSH or in a local shell needs Ctrl, Esc, Tab, arrow keys, and function keys, none of which exist on the standard iOS keyboard. Shell Keyboard is a custom keyboard built specifically for terminal apps like Blink, Termius, Prompt, a-Shell and iSH — it sends the exact ASCII control codes and ANSI/VT escape sequences your terminal expects, the same bytes a physical keyboard would send.
NEW: IPHONE DUO
Shell Keyboard supports iPhone Duo. Open it, and the keyboard spreads out into the same 60% and 75% layouts as iPad, 75% by default. Close it, and it's the iPhone keyboard again. It switches as you fold and unfold.
A REAL KEYBOARD ON IPAD AND IPHONE DUO
Choose a 60% or 75% layout, the compact keyboards terminal users already type on. The 75% layout puts Esc, F1–F12, a number row, Caps Lock, Home, End, Page Up, Page Down and inverted-T arrow keys on one screen, and Shift types the symbol printed on each key, just like a physical keyboard. The 60% layout keeps the function keys, navigation and arrows one fn press away. iPad opens in the 75% layout; the original ShellKey layout is one tap away in Settings.
WHAT'S INCLUDED
• A dedicated terminal layer: Ctrl, Alt, Esc, Tab, arrow keys, Home/End/PgUp/PgDn, and the punctuation a shell prompt uses constantly
• Ctrl and Alt as proper modifiers — latch one for a single keypress, or double-tap to lock it on, like a hardware keyboard
• A full function-key layer: tap fn and the top row becomes F1 through F12, while every other row stays exactly where it was
• Arrow keys that match the app you're in — Normal for shells, Application for vim, tmux, less and htop, or Move the Cursor for ordinary text fields
• Return or Enter: long-press the Return key to switch between a carriage return and a line feed
• A plain QWERTY layer and a complete symbols layer, for ordinary text — hostnames, paths, commit messages — without leaving the keyboard
• Seven themes — Shell, Ember, Glacier, Dusk, Moss, Void (pure black) and High Contrast — each in light and dark, and an Appearance option to keep the keyboard light or dark everywhere
• On iPad and an open iPhone Duo, 60% and 75% layouts (75% by default), described above
• A searchable reference inside the app, listing every key alongside the exact escape sequence and hex bytes it sends
• Every key emits the exact byte sequence a real terminal expects
SETTINGS LIVE IN THE KEYBOARD
Touch and hold the key with the small gear (or tap the gear key on the 60% and 75% layouts) for Haptic feedback, Theme, Appearance and, on iPad and an open iPhone Duo, Layout. They live in the keyboard itself because, without Full Access, iOS keeps a keyboard and its app apart, and Shell Keyboard never asks for Full Access.
BUILT FOR PRIVACY
Shell Keyboard never asks for Full Access. It cannot reach the network. It never reads, stores, or transmits anything you type — every key it sends is d
Latest updates
1.3.0
• iPhone Duo: Shell Keyboard now supports Apple's foldable. Open it, and the keyboard gets the iPad's 60% and 75% layouts, 75% by default, with a number row, F1–F12 and inverted-T arrows. Close it, and it's the iPhone keyboard. It switches as you fold and unfold.
• On the 75% layout, the arrow keys now sit inside one clean inverted-T outline.
Still no Full Access, no network, and nothing you type is ever read, stored or sent.
1.2.0
New in 1.2:
• iPad gets a real keyboard: 60% and 75% layouts, the compact boards terminal users already know. A number row, Caps Lock, F1–F12, Home/End/PgUp/PgDn and inverted-T arrows, all on one screen, and Shift types the symbol printed on each key. iPad now opens in the 75% layout; to go back, open the keyboard's Settings → Layout → ShellKey.
• Themes: seven color themes for the keyboard, including Void (pure black) and High Contrast.
• Appearance: keep the keyboard light or dark everywhere, or let it match each app.
• The app now shows what's new, previews every theme, and explains where the keyboard's settings live and why.
Still no Full Access, no network, and nothing you type is ever read, stored or sent.
1.1.0
Minor improvements to the Shell Keyboard app.
Store changes
What Shell Keyboard changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
Description updated 
Price rise
49.00 PHP → 129.00 PHP
New iPad screenshots
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