Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Terminal Candy
A native macOS terminal you can skin and theme
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Hi HN community, I’m Zach, founder and CEO of Warp, and am excited to show you Warp, a fast Rust-based terminal that’s easy to use and built for teams. As of today, Warp is in public beta and any Mac user can download it. It works with bash, zsh, and fish. The terminal’s teletype-like interface has made it hard for the CLI to thrive. After 20 years of programming, I still find it hard to copy a command’s output; I always forget how to use `tar`; and I always have to relearn how to move my cursor. To fix fundamental accessibility issues, I believe we need to start innovating on the terminal,…
2022 · warp.dev · its alternatives →
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Hi hi, I made a little Halloween themed game this week to show off my new terminal. You can play it in the browser. at https://joel.tools/halloween/ Two years ago, I started building an experiment tracking tool for myself as I have been venturing into ai research, and it has morphed into a terminal with rich content support and a bunch of fancy features. https://github.com/JoelEinbinder/snail/ I can't recommend people start using snail for important stuff today, but I think the game is fun and it shows off a lot of the capabilities of the…
2023 · joel.tools · its alternatives →
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Print your name in style. Contribute to arsham/figurine development by creating an account on GitHub.
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Buy geeky-feminist tees (+more) from the terminal.
2017 · codercat.club · its alternatives →
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Pichon for Mac▲270Best design graphics at your fingertips, just drag and drop
2021 · icons8.com · its alternatives →
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TerminalWidget▲136Put script output in your Desktop/Home screen widgets.
Aug 2026 · terminalwidget.app · its alternatives →
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A native macOS terminal app built on Ghostty for running and supervising coding agents - yuuichieguchi/Calyx
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Mantel▲75Stop confusing your Claude Code sessions & terminal windows
May 2026 · getmantel.app · its alternatives →
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I run a lot of Claude Code and Codex sessions in parallel. I was using Ghostty with a bunch of split panes, and relying on native macOS notifications to know when an agent needed me. But Claude Code's notification body is always just "Claude is waiting for your input" with no context, and with enough tabs open, I couldn't even read the titles anymore. I tried a few coding orchestrators but most of them were Electron/Tauri apps and the performance bugged me. I also just prefer the terminal since GUI orchestrators lock you into their workflow. So I built cmux as a native macOS app in…
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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If you live in the terminal, kitty is made for you! Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based. - kovidgoyal/kitty
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Whereas this is mostly a terminal eye-candy project to get you street cred, it does have some serious aspects. Firstly it solves the age-old problem of low-contrast text, like when you `ls` a broken symlink and the red background colour is too near your current theme's foreground colour. Tattoy solves this by using none other than the web's WCAG 2.1 contrast algorithm for accessible text. Secondly, an explicit design goal is that Tattoy should be able to polyfill new terminal protocols, the `xwayland` of the TTY if you will. Say if we want to experiment with completely deprecating ANSI…
2025 · tattoy.sh · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I’m Mike, the founder and creator of Wave, a cross-platform open-source terminal that supports inline rendering, modern UI, and persistent sessions. I love the command line; I’ve been using it for over 25 years, starting with a Linux box I made with spare parts in my college dorm room. But while other devtools have been modernized, the terminal has been stuck, with the same basic functionality for over 40-years. What if your command line terminal could display more than just text? That’s crazy right (I can hear the screams of thousands of graybeard sysadmins). Not all the time, but…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Node.js scratchpad for macOS with direct access from menubar
2019 · tinyscratchpad.netlify.com · its alternatives →
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Style definitions for nice terminal layouts 👄. Contribute to charmbracelet/lipgloss development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Screensavers for your terminal. Contribute to cxreiff/ttysvr development by creating an account on GitHub.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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spacecake▲79Run Claude Code agents in terminal with a visual editor
Feb 2026 · spacecake.ai · its alternatives →
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Figgy▲152A better native Figma app for Mac with dark mode ✨
2019 · ravenyu.gumroad.com · its alternatives →
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