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86 open-source developer and terminal tools

Open Source Terminal & Dev Tools for Android

The most popular open-source developer and terminal tools for Android on GitHub are RustDesk, Godot Editor 3 and Magisk. appsgit lists 86, 69 of them on F-Droid, each with its license, last commit and store links.

Updated Oct 8, 2026

Open Source Terminal & Dev Tools for Android

Showing the top 48 of 86 by GitHub stars. Every entry is listed in the sitemap and the JSON API.

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What are the best open-source developer and terminal tools?

By GitHub stars, RustDesk is the most popular (125,384 stars), followed by Godot Editor 3 and Magisk. Each page lists the license, the last commit and the F-Droid, Google Play or App Store link when the project publishes one.

Which of these apps work on iPhone?

10 of the 86 open-source developer and terminal tools listed here run on iOS, including Apidash and GitSync, and 84 run on Android.

Are these apps on F-Droid?

69 of the 86 are on F-Droid, which builds them from source. 62 of those have no anti-features (such as ads, tracking or a non-free network service) flagged by F-Droid; each app page lists any that are.

How are these open-source developer and terminal tools chosen?

Apps come from the F-Droid index (apps whose source code is on GitHub), GitHub topics such as android-app, flutter-app, ios-app and jetpack-compose, and a short hand-checked list of official apps that are not on F-Droid. An app is listed only if its license is OSI-approved or FSF-free (F-Droid's license first, then GitHub's), the repository has a README and a commit in the last six months and is not archived, and it has 100+ GitHub stars (F-Droid apps) or 300+ stars (everything else). Libraries, SDKs, templates, samples and demo apps are left out. Source-available apps are never listed.