CRTerminal for Mac
Opinionated terminal emulator with a modern approach to navigating tabs.
By mbcltd. Free and open source, Apache-2.0 licence.
CRTerminal at a glance
- Version
- 1.18.1-185
- Released
- 28 September 2026
- Download size
- 7.3 MB
- Works on
- Apple silicon and Intel
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Category
- Developer Tools
- Developer
- mbcltd
- GitHub stars
- 7
About CRTerminal
Beautifully opinionated terminal emulator, with advanced session navigation and GPU-accelerated retro presets
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How to install CRTerminal on a Mac
- Get OpenDMG. It is a free app store for open source Mac apps. Download OpenDMG.
- Search for CRTerminal and press Get. OpenDMG downloads version 1.18.1-185 from mbcltd's own GitHub release.
- Open it. The download is checked against its SHA-256 fingerprint and its signature is checked on your Mac before it lands in Applications.
Updates to CRTerminal show up in OpenDMG and install with one button. No account is needed.
Prefer to do it by hand? The developer's file is on GitHub: CRTerminal.dmg (7.3 MB).
What is new in CRTerminal 1.18.1-185
## What's Changed * Diagnose frozen tabs; fix a lost render wakeup and git pile-ups by @mbcltd in https://github.com/mbcltd/CRTerminal/pull/80 **Full Changelog**: https://github.com/mbcltd/CRTerminal/compare/v1.18.0-183...v1.18.1-185
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