Open Source Objective C Terminals

iTerm2 is a modern, feature-rich terminal emulator for macOS. It extends and improves on the built-in Terminal app by offering advanced features like split panes, profiles, search, autocomplete, instant replay of terminal history, and much more. The repository contains the full source code (primarily in Objective-C / Swift) along with UI components, extensions, and support tools. It is released under the GPL-2.0 license. The project is quite mature (with many commits and contributors) and supports scripting and automation via an API (including a Python library in the api/library/python/iterm2 path). To build it, you can compile the Xcode project included, and there is documentation and instructions linked from the project’s README (note: issue tracking is handled via GitLab, as the repository refers issues there). The code is organized into modular parts (resources, UI, helpers, submodules), and the project is actively maintained with many releases and tags.

Blink Shell is the first professional, desktop-grade terminal for iOS. It leverages the support of Mosh and SSH to establish ultra-stable and highly reliable connections, lightning-fast speeds, and full configurations. Whether you're connecting to the cloud on the go or coding from one location to another, you'll always stay connected with Blink. Even when your device goes to sleep, you can stay worry-free knowing your connections will stay intact. Blink jumps you directly into a friendly shell, with an easy and straightforward interface. You can configure Blink exactly how you want as well. It lets you choose color themes and fonts, add your own Hosts and RSA Encryption keys, and pair with your Bluetooth-coupled keyboards. It's built and configurable in every way to be your all-day-long companion.

terminal-notifier is a command-line tool to send macOS User Notifications, which are available on macOS 10.10 and higher. alerter features were merged in terminal-notifier 1.7. This led to some issues and even more issues in the 1.8 release. From now on terminal-notifier won't have the sticky notification feature nor the actions buttons. If you need them please use alerter. Sticking to two smaller specialized tools will hopefully make them easier to maintain and less error prone. It is currently packaged as an application bundle, because NSUserNotification does not work from a ‘Foundation tool’. radar://11956694. If you intend to package terminal-notifier with your app to distribute it on the Mac App Store, please use 1.5.2; version 1.6.0+ uses a private method override, which is not allowed in the App Store Guidelines.

iTerm is an enhanced terminal emulator program for MacOS X written in Objective-C. It features VT100/ANSI/XTERM emulation, full i18n support, full-screen, multi-tab and other convenient GUI features. This project is indefinitely on hold, and we recommend that you try http://www.iterm2.com/ instead.

txtkit is a visual text mining tool for exploring large amounts of multilingual texts. It's an multiuser-application which mainly focuses on the process of reading and reasoning as series of decisions and events.

This is a set of Cocoa wrapper classes to access serial ports in Mac OS X.

AppLaunch is a MacOS X tool written in Objective-C/Cocoa to launch common Unix and MacOS commands using a "graphical command line". You can say that it is the MacOS X version of Windows', KDEs, ... "Run"/"Launch" dialog.

MultiTerm aims to become an extendible Terminal Emulation which provides a high quality (nice look and feel) user interface for everyday terminal work.

OS X RS232 Serial monitor program for sending and receiving data and monitoring and controlling the handshake signals. It can be used for debugging serial connections, serial device drivers, embedded systems connected to the serial etc.

Unix users on OS X frequently have the problem of trying to copy text in a terminal window. TerminalAutoCopy is a SIMBL plugin that automatically copies text selected in a terminal window to the clipboard.

WidgetTerm is a terminal Dashboard Widget for Mac OS X 10.4 or above. This widget implements the terminal function through the Web Kit Plug-in in Objective-C powered by iTerm's open source terminal implementation.

tsMacClient is a front end for rdesktop and vnc written in Cocoa/ObjC for Mac OS X. This project is no longer being actively maintained. Checkout CoRD http://sourceforge.net/projects/cord/ as an alternative.