Terminal Candy is a real, native macOS terminal you live inside. Pick a skin — Game Boy, cassette deck, Pip-Boy, or your own art — draw the terminal square right on it, and get to work. Ships with 84 palettes (Dracula, Nord, Tokyo Night…), a visual Skin Builder that turns any image into a terminal, CRT effects, a ⌥Space global hotkey, and a community skin marketplace. 14-day free trial, then $10 once — no subscription. macOS 14+, Apple Silicon.

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. 🙏

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.