Termux

Raised as a usability problem by 13 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2016–2026), in 11 threads.

People raised many different problems with Termux, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 14 complaints

Termux is painful without extra keys; touch text selection keeps randomly bugging out2026-01-27
Termux's accessibility was poor, so a blind user needed custom patches to use it2026-01-26
Pip install numpy doesn't just work; must install as system package2024-05-29
Hardcoded prefix makes the app unusable in secondary profiles2023-04-30
Typing shell commands on a touchscreen keyboard is too slow and annoying2022-11-21
Hidden features like the helper bar and sharing are hard to discover and undocumented2019-03-09
Scrolling backwards through a manpage is laggy and slow in Termux2018-03-12
Help text for while loop was misleading, so the user couldn't find the missing 'done' keyword2018-01-01
Many dev tools like create-react-app and rustup fail, so development keeps ending in frustration2017-10-23
Touch keyboards are awkward for doing terminal work2017-10-23
Can't figure out how to reach a Flask app run inside Termux from the browser2017-10-23
Shortcuts close the window and sessions share one window with no clear way to open more2017-08-18
Copying text requires awkward long press, dragging both selection ends, then clicking Copy2017-08-17
Can't edit project files from other editor apps when npm dependencies install2016-12-20