NAME
Download — free during the beta
SYNOPSIS
iPhone and iPadApp Store. The full mobile app: hosts, sessions, agents and the terminal. Needs iOS 26 or iPadOS 26 or later. Coming soon
Mac App StoreSandboxed. For remote work; updates through the App Store. Needs macOS 26 or later. Coming soon
Mac direct downloadNot sandboxed. Everything, including a terminal on the Mac itself. A disk image you drag to Applications. Needs macOS 26 or later. Coming soon
DESCRIPTION
Aburi Term is in beta. It costs nothing while it is, and there is no account to make. It will have faults, so please tell us what breaks.
MAC VERSIONS
Apple requires every Mac App Store app to run in a sandbox. The sandbox is a wall around the app: it limits which files and programs the app can touch. That is good protection, and it is fine for connecting to servers.
A terminal on your own Mac needs to go through that wall. It has to start your shell, read your home folder and run the tools you installed. The sandbox refuses those, so the App Store version leaves the local terminal out.
If you only connect to servers, take the Mac App Store version. If you also want a terminal on the Mac itself, take the direct download.
| ON THE MAC | MAC APP STORE | DIRECT DOWNLOAD |
|---|---|---|
| SSH, Mosh and SFTP to remote hosts | Yes | Yes |
| Tunnels and port forwards | Yes | Yes |
| Hosts, key vault, themes, split panes | Yes | Yes |
| tmux and Zellij on remote hosts | Yes | Yes |
| Approve agents running on remote hosts | Yes | Yes |
| A terminal on this Mac, with your own shell | No | Yes |
| Homebrew tools, git and tmux on this Mac | No | Yes |
| Approve agents running on this Mac | No | Yes |
| Reads ~/.ssh/config by itself | You pick the file | Yes |
| Files anywhere on this Mac | Only files and folders you pick | Yes |
| Runs inside Apple’s App Sandbox | Yes | No |
| Updates | Through the App Store | Built in: the app checks this site and installs updates signed by us |
NOTES
- The direct download
- The disk image is signed with our Apple Developer ID and checked by Apple’s notary service, which scans it for malicious software before macOS will open it. Because it is not sandboxed, the app and every program you run in its terminal have the same access to your files and network as you do.
- Several devices
- Use any mix of versions. Pair an iPhone or iPad with your Mac to approve agent requests from it, and turn on sync to share hosts through your own iCloud.
- After the beta
- We have not set a price for after the beta. If that changes, this page and the App Store will say so before you pay anything.