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, wire four buttons — that's it.
Pip-Boy, Game Boy, cassette deck, Teletype — the shell you always wished macOS came with.
macOS 14+ · one-time purchase · signed & notarized
real PTY 4 buttons, forever 84 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.
Four buttons. Forever.
Terminal plus three swappable panels — music, widgets, telemetry. That is the entire UI. There is never a fifth button.
84 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, grain, 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. ⌘P jumps to any skin or session.
Filesystem is the database
Skins and widgets 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. The screen is a live shell; the buttons are yours to wire.
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 84 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 84 bundled palettes.
02
Draw the terminal square
Tell Terminajig where the screen lives on the skin.
03
Wire four buttons
Bind Terminal plus three panels. Done — that is the whole UI.
One-time purchase
$10 once · yours forever
- ✓ Lifetime license & free updates
- ✓ Every skin + 84 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 a one-time $10 purchase. Lifetime license, 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.
How do I get it after buying? +
You receive a license key by email plus a download link to the signed, notarized DMG. Paste the key once to unlock — that is it.