macOS 11+Apache 2.0Rustwgpu

OnePrompt

A terminal drawn like an ink painting.

Text is written in by hand, ink bleeds into hand-made paper, and deleting a file cuts its name through with a sword. Under the art is a real terminal with tabs, splits, regex find and true colour.

GitHub →Releases →

3hand-made themes

6light and dark looks

Rust + wgpuGPU rendered

Apache 2.0open source

Under the art is a real terminal: tabs, splits, regex find, true colour, IME, mouse and images.

Themes

Three themes, six looks

A theme is the whole look: surface texture, how ink behaves on it, palette, font, cursor, and its own animations. Each comes in a light and a dark variant.

Tsushima

Sumi on washi, after the ink-painting cutscenes of Ghost of Tsushima and Ghost of Yotei.

Golden parchment browning towards the edges, with water-stain tide lines and a flick of crimson splatter.
Bold sumi swept with a slanted brush nib: thick-and-thin strokes, dry-brush streaks, ink that bleeds along the fibres.
The cursor is a dab of cinnabar seal ink, different in every cell.
Dark variant: the cutscenes inverted, parchment drawn through a field of ink.

Deleting

Strikes what you delete

Run rm and every mention of that file on screen is cut through: in ls output, in the command that deleted it, anywhere. Tsushima cuts it with a sword that flings blood, which splats and dries to a faint stain. Chalkboard draws a quick chalk line.

Clearing

Crumbles what you clear

Cmd+K, or clear in the shell: the writing smoulders from the right, breaks into glowing specks and is blown away. Logbook sets the old page alight, and the Chalkboard crumbles into dust. Only the pane you cleared changes.

Switching

A sword fight between themes

Switching to Tsushima plays one to five quick slashes: a sweep, a cross, a claw, a zigzag or a flurry. The new look runs out of every cut like watercolour on damp paper, fingering and blooming into the grain. No two are alike.

Themes

A live theme picker

Cmd+Option+T opens a card per theme, each showing your current screen as that theme draws it, live. Arrow keys to choose, return to switch with the theme’s own transition. Cmd+Shift+L flips light and dark.

Settings

Tune every effect

Cmd+, opens a settings panel that stays in sync with a plain settings file. Every animation can be switched off or scaled: writing speed, bleed, drying time, dust, sounds and more.

Details

Everything it does

✍️Written by handNew text is traced along each glyph’s pen path. The ink bleeds, dries and ages.

⚔️Strikes what you deleterm a file and every mention of it is cut through.

🔥Undoes what you clearclear crumbles the writing to dust, or burns the page.

🩸Marks failuresA failed command gets a stroke of seal ink. A long one is stamped with a hanko.

📜Every theme, its own wayOpenings, switches, split dividers, closing panes, the settings panel.

🍁Alive when idleLeaves fall onto a window left alone. The cursor has a heartbeat.

🗂️A file browserCmd+B lists the shell’s folder beside it. Open Markdown, pictures and text right in the terminal.

🖼️Pictures and Markdownimgcat photo.png shows it inline. md notes.md renders in the theme’s inks.

🖥️A real terminalTabs, splits, find with regex, clickable links, IME, true colour, mouse. Claude Code-friendly.

🎨Colours that fit the paperTrue-colour programs keep their hue but move into a lightness range ink can have on the sheet.

⏳Paper that agesOver hours of use a sheet yellows, creases and collects smudges. A new tab starts fresh.

🔊Synthesised soundsOptional brush, sword, seal and chalk sounds, made from noise and tones with no recordings.

Keys

Keys you will want

⌘,Settings

⌘⌥TTheme picker

⌘⇧LLight ↔ dark

⌘D / ⌘⇧DSplit side by side / stacked

⌘FFind (⌘R for regex)

⌘KClear

⌘BFile browser

⌘ clickOpen a link or file

Install

Get OnePrompt

macOS 11+, Apple silicon and Intel

Or grab the dmg from Releases. Signed and notarized. It is an alpha, so expect rough edges.

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