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Tintpad for Mac

Hotkey to open terminal at the right repo with Claude Code, Codex, or any agent, ready to go.

By sorkila. Free and open source, MIT licence.

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Tintpad at a glance

Version
0.4.1
Released
17 September 2026
Download size
4.7 MB
Works on
Apple silicon and Intel
Licence
MIT
Category
Developer Tools
Developer
sorkila
GitHub stars
15

About Tintpad

It falls out of your notch. Hotkey, repo, Return: your terminal opens with Claude Code, Codex or any agent already running. Free, MIT, local-only macOS.

How to install Tintpad on a Mac

  1. Get OpenDMG. It is a free app store for open source Mac apps. Download OpenDMG.
  2. Search for Tintpad and press Get. OpenDMG downloads version 0.4.1 from sorkila's own GitHub release.
  3. 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 Tintpad 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: Tintpad.dmg (4.7 MB).

What is new in Tintpad 0.4.1

**Tintpad**: press ⌥⌘Space and a black drop falls out of your Mac's notch with your repos
inside. Return opens your terminal at that repo with your coding agent (Claude Code, Codex, …)
already running. Hands off to the terminal you already use. Native, local-only, free and open
source.

### New in 0.4.1
- **A new icon.** A lit glass capsule above a navy pad, built in Icon Composer.
- **Free, with nothing to unlock.** The Supporter tip, its license key and the tinted chips are
 gone. The drop is black and white for everyone, and Buy me a coffee stays in About.
- **The left fade tells the truth.** The token strip fades its left edge only when repos are
 actually scrolled out of view, and the first repo sits at its true start again.

### Install
- **Download `Tintpad.dmg` below**, drag to Applications, launch. macOS 14+.
- or `brew install --cask sorkila/tap/tintpad`
- The build is signed with a Developer ID and notarized, so it opens past Gatekeeper. Auto-updates via Sparkle.

### What's inside
- **The drop**: a pure-black capsule that falls from the camera housing (a floating pill below
 the menu bar on notchless Macs). Stark black and white, springs all the way down, a crossfade
 under Reduce Motion.
- **The contract**: AGENT and MODE chips say exactly what Return runs, in each agent's own
…

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