tTerm for Mac: a local terminal with the cloud inside
tTerm now has an app for the Mac. It opens your computer's shells in blocks and works without an account, and once you sign in, your servers from the cloud appear in the same window. Free, macOS 11 or later.
Why an app as well
tTerm Web is the cloud terminal: your servers' terminals live in the cloud and open from any browser. But work often starts on your own computer: builds, git, docker. For that you needed a separate terminal, with tTerm in a browser tab beside it. Now your Mac and the cloud are in one window.
What it does
- Blocks on your own Mac. This Mac's bash or zsh, every command a block with its output, exit code and time. An input line with history and Tab, and tTerm asks before a dangerous command. The history stays on the Mac for 30 days.
- No account needed. This Mac's terminals, history and notes are kept on the Mac itself. You need an account only for the cloud.
- The cloud in the same window. Sign in through your browser, and your servers, their notes and search across everything with ⌘K open next to the Mac's terminals.
- Your Mac from anywhere. The app opens this Mac to tTerm Web: its terminal is there from a browser and from your phone. tTerm lives in the menu bar and starts with your Mac.
- It updates itself. Every six hours tTerm checks for a new version and installs it when nothing is in the way. If you would rather decide, choose in Settings → Updates to be asked first.
How to install
Download tTerm on the download page, open tTerm.dmg and drag tTerm to Applications. The app is signed with our own certificate, not an Apple Developer ID, so the first time macOS asks you to confirm, and the download page shows how. After that tTerm opens as usual, and macOS does not ask about updates.
What's next
Soon the app will find the servers and keys in ~/.ssh on this Mac and move them to the cloud in a couple of clicks. Then Windows and Linux. The app's code is open, like all of tTerm: github.com/tterm-net/tterm-app, AGPL v3.