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Dev tools · October 23, 2026

Trellis

More than a terminal: a native macOS workspace for devs

Trellis launched on October 23, 2026 with 76 votes, #461 of 4,962 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.

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What it does

Trellis is a free, open-source native Swift terminal for macOS: managed windows, renameable tabs, nested splits, saved SSH hosts and a local automation API with a CLI and MCP server.

Every project gets a window in the sidebar, every window its own tabs, and every tab as many panes as you need. Launch build, test and run tasks from the pane header, and draft scripts in a scratchpad right beside your shell. All native Swift, and it all comes back after a restart. Every project gets a window, every window keeps its own tabs, every tab splits as deep as you need. Close the app and it all comes back, stopped and safe, without replaying a keystroke. Put a project's windows, tabs, splits and tasks in a .trellis folder next to its code. Everyone who clones the repo gets the same layout and the same build, test and run commands, reviewed like any other file. Built on a vendored…from bearstouch.com

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