Termini
Open-Source Menu Bar Terminal for macOS
Details
- External ID
- 48150675
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Termini
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- May 15, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.3053311793214863
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- macOS and desktop customization tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- menu bar terminal for macos
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 877 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #631 of 878 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 194 days after the earliest competitor.
- DuoFlip · github · 2026-09-10 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.74
- dsh-bar-macos · github · 2026-09-20 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.70
- timebar · github · 2026-09-22 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- MacStatusBarAndDock · github · 2026-09-26 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- window-sweaters · github · 2026-09-15 · 587 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- ratio · github · 2026-09-13 · 37 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Bonsplit · hn · 2026-01-25 · 245 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Calyx · hn · 2026-03-12 · 28 upvotes · similarity 0.62
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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