Termux

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “I wrote an entire programming language inside my Android phone with Termux”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-29

• “thankfully it does from Termux so I have some way of manipulating the files with standard Linux tools”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-17

• “Termux saved me on a few homework assignments in university.”

  POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2026-06-11

• “a chunk of Odysseus was built *from a phone* -- mobile shells (Termux), the PWA install, and on-device agents. So "works on mobile" isn't an afterthought, it's where a lot of it actually happened.”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-05-31

• “I usually have this time as a downtime for lightweight C coding in Termux”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-27

• “noodling around with code under termux while away from my desk, it was awesome”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-05-25

• “Termux and DOSBox are great for running or writing software on a phone”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-05-25

• “does not work under Android, at least in termux compiled with clang/gcc”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-05-07

• “The biggest loss for me was Termux. I had lots of scripts and such that I ran, plus just having a Linux environment in my pocket was nice.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-29

• “opening a web server in termux on my phone and having the other side download from my hotspot every time i want to transfer a file”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-04-28

• “Termux, SimH, VAX780 emulator, OpenVMS 7.2 takes about 5.4 Gb for all of it.”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-23

• “MNN on a Snapdragon via Termux — the attack surface is zero if the port never leaves the device. Sovereign infrastructure isn't just about privacy, it's the simplest security posture available.”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-04-08

• “Termux is the only thing on Android which has not precisely sucked in my own 15+ years' experience with the platform”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-04

• “Gnome Terminal and Termux in Ubuntu 24.04 were unusable even with 1000 hacks.”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-04-01

• “take the advantage of Termux power, namely the fact that you can install things like Openclaw or Gemini-cli”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-03-24

• “run a full Linux desktop environment (via Termux), something you really can do”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-03-14

• “That really did destroy my deep thinking time, and lasted for about 3 days before I deleted termux.”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2026-03-02

• “I've given up on setting up a Termux Python dev environment on an old Arm tablet”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-02-24

• “I engineered the entire python agent swarm to run flawlessly on an old $30 Android phone using Termux (pulling only 2 Watts)”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-02-23

• “Could just use yt-dlp from Termux but this is more convenient”

  LUKEWARM · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-02-20

• “on a forked and accessible version of Termux I vibecoded into existence”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-02-20

• “Termux and tmux are useful for crazy coding sessions from your phone/tablet”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-02-12

• “Termux development is fully functional. I do the same happily, even for the joy of it to pass time in transit.”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-02-11

• “termux+wireguard lead to a surprisingly generally stable connection”

  POSITIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-02-03

• “I cannot think of how I would have done it at all without termux.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-02-03