Desktop App

Termi Desktop App — macOS, Windows & Linux

Termi ships a native desktop app built with Electron, available for macOS, Windows, and Linux in both x64 and arm64 builds. It's a lightweight native shell around your own self-hosted Termi instance, plus a local terminal that isn't available in the browser version.

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Why use the desktop app instead of the browser?

• Local terminal access — open a shell on the machine you're actually sitting at, not just remote servers
• Remembers window size and position between launches
• Native right-click context menu and keyboard shortcuts for managing shell tabs (new/close/cycle shells, quick-open)
• Feels like a first-class app: no browser chrome, dock/taskbar integration, auto-updates on Windows and Linux

Installation

macOS

Download Termi-<version>-arm64.dmg for Apple Silicon or Termi-<version>.dmg for Intel Macs.

The macOS build is ad-hoc signed but not notarized (there is no paid Apple Developer ID behind this open-source project), so Gatekeeper will show a warning on first launch:

"Apple could not verify 'Termi.app' is free of malware…"

This is expected for an open-source, unsigned build. To open it anyway:

Option A — Right-click to open

1. Drag Termi.app into /Applications
2. Right-click (or Control-click) the app → Open
3. Click Open in the dialog — macOS remembers this choice afterward

Option B — Remove the quarantine flag

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Termi.app

Note: macOS builds do not currently self-update (unsigned apps can't). The app will notify you and link back to this page when a new version is available.

Windows

Download Termi-Setup-<version>.exe and run it. Windows SmartScreen may warn that the publisher is unknown — click More info → Run anyway. Windows builds self-update automatically.

Linux

Download the .AppImage for your architecture (x64 or arm64). No installation required:

chmod +x Termi-<version>.AppImage
./Termi-<version>.AppImage

Linux builds self-update automatically.

Connecting to your instance

On first launch, the desktop app asks for the URL of your self-hosted Termi instance (see Getting Started if you haven't deployed one yet). It then behaves exactly like the web app, with the added local-terminal and native-shell features above.

Keyboard shortcuts

Shortcut	Action
Cmd/Ctrl + 1–4	Switch between Servers / Groups / Sessions / Local Terminal
Cmd/Ctrl + T	New shell tab
Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + W	Close shell tab
Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + ] / [	Next / previous shell tab
Cmd/Ctrl + K	Quick-open a server
Cmd/Ctrl + ,	Settings

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Related pages: Getting Started · Features · Troubleshooting · FAQ