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Naqsh

A fast, borderless terminal for macOS

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Naqsh is a terminal for macOS with quiet typography by default and an optional CRT glow when you want it. Tabs, splits that open in the same folder, a command palette, and a drop-down quick terminal on a global shortcut. Command marks show where each command started and whether it succeeded. Six themes, custom accent colour, 24-bit colour, ligatures and image paste, in a native app of about 10 MB. $19 once, 14-day free trial.

PH · launched Nov 3, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 19%) · 0 views

Niche: terminal emulators and utilities · 106 launches, 1 in the last 7 days ▼ -88% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • Developer
  • Not AI
  • Commercial product
  • Mac
  • Productivity
  • Developer Tools

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Could you build this?

Partial Tabs, splits, a command palette and a quick-terminal hotkey are vibe-codeable in SwiftUI or AppKit, but a correct terminal emulator core (VT parsing, PTY handling, fast GPU text rendering) is hard.

What it would actually take: A practical build would use Swift with AppKit and an existing emulator library such as SwiftTerm, adding PTY management, shell integration for command marks, and Metal rendering for the CRT effect. The hard part is making rendering, Unicode and escape-sequence handling correct and fast, which calls for systems-level macOS and terminal expertise.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 380 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #100 of 381 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 362 days after the earliest competitor.

  • Yalqen · ph · 2026-10-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
  • Waffle · hn · 2026-04-11 · 40 upvotes · similarity 0.48
  • ApolloShell · ph · 2026-09-20 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
  • Trellis · ph · 2026-10-28 · 68 upvotes · similarity 0.46
  • Dockish · ph · 2026-11-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
  • terminal-mac · github · 2026-11-03 · 2226 upvotes · similarity 0.45
  • luish · ph · 2026-10-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
  • ShellTalk brings deterministic text-to-bash · hn · 2026-04-22 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.44

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