Terminal Candy

What it does

Terminal Candy is a real, native macOS terminal you live inside. Pick a skin — Game Boy, cassette deck, Pip-Boy, or your own art — and draw the terminal square right on it. It pings you (sound + dock bounce) when Claude Code or Codex actually needs input, so you stop babysitting the window. The Skin Builder turns any image into a terminal; 84 palettes, CRT effects, ⌥Space hotkey, community skin marketplace. 14-day free trial, then $10 once — no subscription. macOS 14+, Apple Silicon.

The native macOS terminal you run Claude Code, Codex & Gemini CLI inside — reskinned into anything. Free to download and try — never a subscription.

A real shell in a native macOS app. Pick a skin, define the terminal square — that's it. A gadget, a character, a frame — anything with a live shell behind the screen. The built-in Skin Builder does the heavy lifting: magic-wand the background away, draw the terminal window right on the art, pick a palette — and it loads live. No restart, no compiler. 01 pick a skin → 02 draw the terminal square → 03 launch. That's the whole setup. Skins are a mood, not a commitment. Tap ⌘M and the chassis drops away for a clean, standard terminal — same session, same scrollback. Tap it again when the mood returns. A real one. SwiftTerm under the hood: a real PTY with full VT emulation,…from terminalcandy.com

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