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Command Book is a native macOS app built with SwiftUI that gives your long-running terminal commands a permanent home. Instead of juggling terminal tabs for dev servers, background workers, Docker containers, and log tails every morning, Command Book lets you save each command once with its working directory, environment variables, and pre-commands, then run them instantly whenever you need them.
The app includes auto-restart on crash (nicknamed "Honey Badger mode") to keep dev servers running through file change errors, a โK command palette for keyboard-first workflows, automatic URL detection that keeps your dev server addresses accessible regardless of output scrolling, and a full CLI for running saved commands directly from the terminal. At 21 MB with no Electron or Chromium, it stays lightweight and fast.
Free personal license available. Pro edition is a one-time $14.99 purchase with no subscription, no account required, and no tracking. No VC, no enterprise upsell. Feedback welcome. Windows version is under consideration.
Command Book
iTerm2Command Book's answer
Swift and SwiftUI for a fully native macOS experience.
Command Book's answer
Command Book is a dedicated command/process manager for developers, not a terminal emulator. Instead of replacing your terminal, it works alongside it as a companion for long-running commands. It's a native macOS app built with SwiftUI at just 21 MB. No Electron, no Chromium. It combines a GUI with a full CLI, so you can manage commands visually or from your terminal.
Command Book's answer
Terminal emulators are great for interactive work but terrible as process managers. Command Book fills that gap. You save a command once with its working directory, env vars, and pre-commands, then run it forever without remembering the setup. Auto-restart keeps crashed dev servers running. URL detection means you never lose track of your dev server's address. And at 21 MB with no subscription or tracking, it's lightweight in every sense.
Command Book's answer
Developers who juggle multiple long-running processes every day. Web developers running dev servers and background workers, data scientists kicking off training runs, DevOps engineers managing Docker containers and log tails. Anyone who opens 4-6 terminal tabs each morning just to get their environment running.
Command Book's answer
After years juggling commands for dev projects, I was tired of rebuilding my terminal setup every morning. Five or six tabs, each needing the right directory and env vars, and when something crashed mid-day I'd hunt through tabs to find it. I looked for a tool that managed long-running commands as saved, reproducible, auto-restarting processes. It didn't exist, so I built it for myself. It was such a delight, I turned it into a product.
I've had so many problems with terminal in my Mac.. thanks for this tool. It's like really useful
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Execute commands using terminals like Windows Terminal, iTerm2, or built-in options on macOS and Linux. Customizing themes, fonts, and shortcuts can optimize your workflow. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago
iTerm2 is the classic macOS terminal. It's stable, feature-rich, and supports Agent Teams split-pane mode (requires it2 CLI installation and enabling the Python API). - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago
I had a setup that worked perfectly for me, 3 screens (Actually 2 screen + Macbook Pro) One with IDE (WebStorm, Vscode and from time to time just sublime). Second with Terminal (started with iTerm2 and moved to Warp with Oh My Zsh and bunch of plugins) And last with Browser (Web or DB). - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago
Claude Code comes with a notification hook. Some terminals support it natively (iTerm2, Kitty, Ghostty) but most donโt, and even when they do, itโs a system notification which is easy to miss if you step away. - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago
For the longest time I've used iTerm2 as a replacement for Terminal. It's fast, it's native, it's not yet another lipstick-on-an-Electron-wrapper type of thing. Only Ghostty comes close to it, and even though it's faster and resizes better, it misses some of the features I've grown to depend on. - Source: dev.to / 10 months ago
Warp Terminal - The terminal for the 21st century. Warp is a blazingly fast, rust-based terminal reimagined from the ground up to work like a modern app.
MobaXterm - Enhanced terminal for Windows with X11 server, tabbed SSH client, network tools and much more
iTerm - iTerm is a full featured terminal emulation program written for OS X using Cocoa.
PuTTY - Popular free terminal application. Mostly used as an SSH client.
Kitty terminal - Super fast, GPU and OpenGL based terminal emulator with tiling support
KiTTY - KiTTY is a fork from version 0.70 of PuTTY. It adds extra features to PuTTY.