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Terminal Candy
A native macOS terminal you can skin and theme
84 followers
A native macOS terminal you can skin and theme
84 followers
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.
Terminal Candy
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I'm Peter, the maker of Terminal Candy. I spend basically all day in the terminal, and I got tired of it being a grey box. So I built a terminal you live inside — pick a skin, draw the terminal square right onto the art, and get to work.
What makes it fun:
🎨 Skin it into anything — Game Boy, cassette deck, Pip-Boy, or your own image
🛠 Skin Builder — magic-wand the background off any picture, draw the terminal window on it, pick a palette. Loads live, no restart, no compiler.
🌈 84 built-in palettes — Dracula, Nord, Tokyo Night, Solarized, CRT greens, and more
🖥 Real CRT effects — GPU-composited scanlines, phosphor glow, curvature, grain
⌥ ⌥Space global hotkey — summon/hide from anywhere, no Accessibility prompt
🛍 Community skins — browse, install with one click, and upload your own
🔔 Agent alerts — sound + dock bounce when Claude Code or Codex actually needs input. Stop babysitting the window.
It's a real terminal underneath (full VT emulation via SwiftTerm), 100% native macOS — no Electron. macOS 14+, Apple Silicon.
Pricing is simple: 14-day free trial, then $10 once. No subscription. (Fun twist: publish 10 approved community skins and the $10 is on the house.) 🍬 PH treat: first 100 hunters — code STOPBABYSITTING gets it for $7.
I'd genuinely love your feedback — what device would you skin your terminal into? What's missing? I'm here all day reading every comment. 🙏
The Skin Builder turning any image into a working terminal, not just picking from presets, is the actual product. Everything else is a coat of paint on top of that.
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@irahimiam That was the bet — the preset skins are really just proof the builder works. Magic-wand a photo, draw the square, you're in. Would love to see what you make with it.
Agent alerts is your last bullet and it's the only one that makes this a daily driver instead of a weekend toy. I'd move it to the top. Anyone can picture phosphor glow, but "the dock bounces when Codex is actually waiting on me" is the sentence that gets me to pay the $10, and right now it's sitting under the Game Boy skins.
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@asadmalik901 Ha — fair, and honestly that's how I use it too. The skins are why I built it, the alerts are why it stays open all day. Might actually reorder the copy. Thanks for this.