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Termini

Open-Source Menu Bar Terminal for macOS

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HN · launched May 15, 2026 · 6 upvotes (top 69%) · 1 view

Niche: macos menu bar utilities · 312 launches, 25 in the last 7 days ▼ -19% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • Developer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

Yes A menu bar terminal app for macOS can be quickly assembled using Swift/SwiftUI or Tauri wrapping standard pseudoterminal (pty) bindings and an embedded terminal emulator.

Discussion

5 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: Native terminal app with keyboard shortcuts, SwiftTerm

Concerns raised: Unclear value proposition vs opening terminal directly, Screen real estate trade-off vs context switching

Feature requests: Always-on-top window that stays visible when clicking outside, Keep terminal showing even when losing focus (for CLI agents)

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 2235 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #1618 of 2236 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 194 days after the earliest competitor.

  • transnap-oss · github · 2026-10-12 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.75
  • DuoFlip · github · 2026-09-10 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.74
  • MenuBarHome · github · 2026-11-08 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.72
  • dsh-bar-macos · github · 2026-09-20 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.70
  • timebar · github · 2026-09-22 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.69
  • window-sweaters · github · 2026-09-15 · 587 upvotes · similarity 0.68
  • MacStatusBarAndDock · github · 2026-09-26 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.67
  • uma · github · 2026-10-12 · 40 upvotes · similarity 0.67

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