Retro PC
Handheld · green phosphor
Cream-plastic handheld. Green-on-black phosphor CRT, soft scanlines, and a little sage smiley button.
Native macOS · SwiftTerm
Your terminal,
as a gadget.
A native macOS terminal you live inside. Pick a skin, define the terminal square — that's it.
Pip-Boy, Game Boy, cassette deck, Teletype — the shell you always wished macOS came with.
macOS 14+ · free to download · a $10 license unlocks the shell · signed & notarized
real PTY multi-session 86 palettes GPU CRT effects ⌥Space from anywhere no Electron
A real terminal, dressed up right.
Everything a daily-driver shell needs, wrapped in a gadget you actually want to look at.
Real PTY, real terminal
SwiftTerm under the hood: full VT emulation, scrollback, xterm mouse, true color. A real shell you actually work in, not a toy.
Make your own gadget
The built-in Skin Builder turns any device PNG into a terminal — draw where the screen goes, magic-wand the background, drop it in, and it loads live. No restart.
86 palettes in the box
Solarized, Dracula, Nord, Gruvbox, Game Boy DMG, C64, Synthwave '84, Vaporwave. Swap the whole look instantly.
GPU-composited CRT
Scanlines, phosphor glow, screen curvature, color grade — rendered on the GPU, not faked with a PNG overlay.
Summon from anywhere
A global ⌥Space hotkey drops the terminal in over any app — no Accessibility permission required.
Filesystem is the database
Skins are just folders. Drop one into Application Support and it loads live — no registry, no restart, no compile.
One terminal. Many gadgets.
Each skin is a real device chassis, with a live shell behind the screen.
Unit-07
Field radio · amber
Military field radio. Olive-drab chassis, knurled VOL/CHAN knobs, amber-phosphor screen, hard tactile keys.
terminajig $ play ▶ side A — loading… █
Cassette Futurism
Boombox · amber · in the works
80s cassette-deck energy — chrome accents, a tape bay, and a warm amber CRT. Landing in an update.
…plus 86 curated color palettes, from Game Boy DMG to Synthwave '84.
Set up in three moves.
01
Pick a skin
Choose a device chassis — or one of 86 bundled palettes.
02
Draw the terminal square
Tell Terminajig where the screen lives on the skin.
03
Launch it
Open Terminajig and your shell boots inside the gadget — skin, screen, real terminal. That is the whole UI.
Free to download
$10 one-time · unlocks the shell
- ✓ Lifetime license & free updates
- ✓ Every skin + 86 color palettes
- ✓ Companion Skin Builder
- ✓ Signed & notarized DMG
- ✓ Multi-session tabs, CRT effects, ⌥Space hotkey
macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon & Intel
Questions
Which Macs does it run on? +
macOS 14 (Sonoma) and up, on Apple Silicon and Intel. Terminajig is an opinionated, fully native Mac app — there is no Windows or Linux build.
Is it a subscription? +
No. Terminajig is free to download and try. Unlocking the full shell is a one-time $10 license — lifetime, free updates, no account required to keep using it.
Is it Electron? +
No web shell, no Chromium. Pure SwiftTerm + AppKit, so it launches instantly and sips memory.
How do skins work? +
A skin is a folder — one PNG and one JSON file. Drop it into Application Support and it loads live. Anyone can build one; no compiler required. A companion Skin Builder ships in the box.
Do I have to pay before I can try it? +
No. Download the signed, notarized DMG for free and start using Terminajig right away. When you are ready to unlock the full shell, buy a $10 license and paste the key once — that is it. Your key arrives by email.