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CybaTerm

v1.0.0macOS 14+Apple siliconSigned & notarizedComing soon

The cyberpunk terminal for Mac. Neon themes, glowing text and a drawer full of live widgets, in a fast native macOS app from PWR Industries LLC.

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CybaTerm 1.0.0 (build 19) · macOS 14.0 or later · Apple silicon only · Developer ID signed & notarized by Apple · Direct download from this site · Coming soon

CybaTerm in the Neon Tokyo theme with Neon Glow and the Netrunner Deck prompt, with the Pulse, Sys Stats and World Clocks widgets in the drawer

Overview

CybaTerm is a native macOS terminal with a cyberpunk soul. It’s the fun one: one fast terminal, wrapped in one of 20 neon themes, with 14 prompt choices, the Metal-powered Neon Glow, and a widget drawer of up to 5 panes filled with live latency graphs, a real-audio equalizer, system stats and a glitchy ASCII face that talks back.

Themes + editor

Built-in neon themes, plus a theme editor with a live preview to tune every color or build your own.

Prompt choices

12 prompt looks, from Neon Basic to Mainframe 3270, plus Keep my prompt and Auto.

GPU

Neon Glow

A Metal renderer that makes every character glow. Switch to Clean any time.

Widgets

Useful, eye candy and fun, in a drawer of up to 5 panes beside the terminal.

▶ CybaTerm promo with narration · about 55 seconds, sound on, captions included. Demo host “cybadeck”.

Read the transcript

00:00Time to jack in, runner. This is CybaTerm: a cyberpunk terminal, native to the Mac.
00:07Every glyph burns in Metal Neon Glow. Preem chrome for console cowboys.
00:12Twenty color themes, or cook up something nova in the theme editor.
00:17Fourteen prompt styles, from Neural Link to Kanji Rain.
00:20Slide out the widget drawer: Pulse, Matrix rain, Radar and Live SSH Stats.
00:26Now Playing rides a real-audio equalizer and Glitch Face has 122 things to say.
00:32Too much neon? Kill the glow or dial it down.
00:36Scanlines, widgets and font size: your rig, your rules.
00:40Built native in Swift, with SSH, and notarized by Apple.
00:44No telemetry. Your keys stay in the Keychain, on your Mac.
00:49CybaTerm. Jack in at pwr.industries

Download

Direct download · Coming soon

CybaTerm 1.0.0 isn’t available to download yet. It will be a direct download from this site, not the Mac App Store, signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple so macOS opens it without warnings. This page will link to it as soon as it’s ready.

macOS14.0 Sonoma or later

MacApple silicon only

SignedDeveloper ID, notarized by Apple

Version1.0.0 (build 19)

The Now Playing equalizer follows your Mac’s real audio on macOS 14.2 or later. On 14.0 and 14.1 it shows a demo animation.

Screenshots

8 shots

Demo user and demo data only. Click any screenshot to view it full size.

CybaTerm in the Outrun Sunset theme with the Holo Card prompt, and the Globe Trace, Hex Stream, Glitch Face and Busy Mode widgets in the drawer — Outrun Sunset · Holo Card promptGlobe Trace, Hex Stream, Glitch Face and a Busy Mode feed.

CybaTerm in the Green Rain theme with the Glitch prompt and Hack Mode on, every widget slot showing a fake hacker feed — Green Rain · Hack ModeEvery slot turns into a Busy Mode feed.

CybaTerm in the Arasaka theme with the Corp Terminal prompt and Neon Glow off, with World Clocks, Sys Stats and Pulse in the drawer — Arasaka · Clean modeCorp Terminal prompt with Neon Glow switched off.

Prompt styles Built-in and A to E stacked in one session, in the Tron Grid theme, with Radar Sweep, Hex Stream and World Clocks widgets — Prompt styles: Built-in, A–ETron Grid theme, with Radar Sweep and World Clocks.

Prompt styles F to K stacked in one session, in the Synth Pulse theme, with Glitch Face, a Busy Mode feed and Matrix Rain — Prompt styles: F–KSynth Pulse theme, with Glitch Face and Matrix Rain.

CybaTerm in the Ice Breaker theme with the Signal Bars prompt driven by the Pulse widget, plus Ping Grid and Sys Stats in the drawer — Pulse + Signal BarsLive latency from Pulse drives the Signal Bars prompt.

The CybaTerm Theme Editor listing the 20 built-in themes, with color wells for every field and a live preview of the terminal and a Sys Stats widget — Theme EditorColor wells for every field and a live preview.

Features

Themes and the Theme Editor

20 built-in themes, including Neon Tokyo, Green Rain, Blade Runner, Synth Pulse, Tron Grid, Outrun Sunset, Arasaka and Cyber Sakura
Every theme sets all 16 ANSI colors plus the window chrome, glow, CRT scanlines, prompt colors and font
The Theme Editor has a color well for every field and a live preview. Built-in themes are protected: your edits are saved as an override, and Restore Default undoes them
Import, export or make a new theme from the current one. Themes are .cybatheme files that reload live when you save them

Neon Glow and rendering

Neon Glow, built on Apple’s Metal, makes every character glow. Switch between Neon Glow and Clean with the GPU Glow button, Text › Toggle Neon Glow (⌃⌘G) or Settings › Rendering
Pick the Metal or Classic renderer and the Fast or Classic parser, all switchable live
Stays smooth when output floods in, with typing and scrolling at full speed

A terminal plus a widget drawer

One terminal running your normal login zsh with your own dotfiles, which CybaTerm never edits
Beside it, a widget drawer of up to 5 panes. Add Pane adds a slot, Pin keeps one fixed, and Shuffle rotates the unpinned slots every 30 seconds
Hack Mode (⌃⌘H) turns every slot into a fake hacker feed, then puts your layout back
Command palette (⇧⌘K) for widgets, themes and more

Shell integration

⌘↑ and ⌘↓ jump between prompts, and ⇧⌘C copies the last command’s output
A notification when a long command finishes
The cyba command switches prompts, themes and widgets from the shell
Session logging to plain-text files on your Mac (⇧⌘L)

Prompt styles

14 choices: 12 looks plus Keep my prompt and Auto. Pick one from Shell › Prompt Style or with cyba prompt.

Id	Style	What it looks like
builtin	Built-in (Neon Basic)	Clean two-line box prompt using the theme’s prompt character
a	Neural Link	Two-line HUD with exit status and run time on the right, plus an SSH tag
b	Glitch	Katakana tag, color-split user name, hex error code on failure
c	Corp Terminal	`[SYS:ONLINE] [NODE:] [SEC:] [PATH:] >>` megacorp console
d	Minimal Neon	Underlined path and a neon rule, with a bolt on SSH
e	Netrunner Deck	`[DECK:user]─[NODE:host]─[ICE:CLEAR]`, which shows ICE BREACH after an error, plus a trace of the last command
f	Router CLI	Cisco/Juniper style `host(dir)>`, with `#` when root
g	Mainframe 3270	All-caps JOB/NODE/USER/DSN, ABEND RC on error, READY
h	Signal Bars	▂▄▆█ bars for how fast your last command ran (or live Pulse latency), plus session uptime
i	Kanji Rain	One line with a new katakana word on every command and glowing ⟩⟩
j	Hazard Mode	Striped `/!\ HAZARD` warning band. Can switch on automatically for root or production hosts
k	Holo Card	Boxed HOST/USER/PATH/GIT card that collapses to one line after you press Enter
mine	Keep my prompt	Uses your own prompt (Powerlevel10k, Starship, …)
auto	Auto	Your own prompt if you have one, otherwise the theme’s default style

Every style takes its colors from the active theme and updates live when you switch themes. Each built-in theme has a default style; Arasaka, for example, uses Corp Terminal.

Widgets

25 widgets

25 widgets in three flavors. The drawer beside the terminal holds up to 5 at a time. Swap them from the widget library, the command palette or cyba widget.

The Pulse widget: live latency and packet loss for four hosts, all up, with sparklines — PulseLatency, loss and up/down for up to 8 hosts.

The Ping Grid widget showing three hosts at 0.1 ms — Ping GridRound-trip time per host.

The Grok Bot widget with Screen ON and the red Screen Shared badge — Grok BotScreen sharing is opt-in, with a red badge.

Useful · 16

Pulse: new in 1.0: latency, loss and up/down status for up to 8 pinned hosts
Sys Stats: clock, live CPU and memory, network, host name
World Clocks: up to 6 labeled time zones
Now Playing: Apple Music or Spotify controls, ASCII cover art, and an equalizer that follows your audio
Neon Weather: 3-day Open-Meteo forecast with ASCII icons
Ping Grid: green/red tiles with round-trip time per host (0.5–60 s interval)
Port Watch: TCP ports listening on this Mac
Git Pulse: branch, changed files and recent commits for your current folder
Processes: top processes by CPU
Docker: running containers (if Docker is installed)
Clipboard: recent copies, kept in memory only
Cert Expiry: days until a domain’s TLS certificate expires
Network Map: the devices on your local network, from your Mac’s ARP table
Live SSH Stats: CPU, memory, load and disk of the server you’re SSH’d into
Log Tail: live tail -F of a remote log, with errors highlighted
Grok Bot: chat with Grok, using your own xAI API key stored in the Keychain

Eye candy · 5

Matrix Rain: falling code: katakana, binary, hex or your own characters
Hex Stream: scrolling memory hex dump
Radar Sweep: rotating sweep with contacts
Globe Trace: spinning ASCII Earth with trace arcs, or a real traceroute
Audio Visualizer: mic level bars, or a demo mode

Fun · 4

Busy Mode: a fake hacker feed in many styles: AI training, firewall, port scan and more
Glitch Face: an ASCII face that glitches in with about 120 ominous or funny lines
Trace Incoming: a fake “trace incoming” call alert
ASCII Cam: your camera as live ASCII art, off until you press Start Camera

Release notes

Version 1.0.0 (build 19) Current

The first stable release.

New

Pulse widget: live latency and packet loss for up to 8 hosts, with sparklines, red DOWN rows and optional up/down alerts (toast or sound). It can also drive the Signal Bars prompt.

Privacy & security

Grok screen sharing is now opt-in. The Grok Bot widget only sends what’s on your terminal screen if you turn on Screen: ON. While it’s on you’ll see a red SCREEN SHARED badge, each shared message is marked, and a notice appears every time. It’s off by default, and existing installs are switched off once.
Keychain secrets stay on this Mac. Saved keys, like your xAI API key, are moved to “this device only” Keychain storage, so they don’t sync to other devices. Nothing is lost during the move.
Share My SSH Login with Widgets is now on by default. SSH widgets can reuse the connection you already logged into, so hosts that use a password or 2FA work. Your credentials are never logged.

Fixes

Fixed a crash that could happen during very heavy terminal output, for example when you cat a huge log (present since 0.7.8).
Theme editor: invalid themes now show an error instead of disappearing. Delete, in-place rename and duplicate all work. Re-imported themes no longer overwrite existing ones. Built-in themes are protected, and the prompt character is checked as you type.

Faster

Smoother rendering during big output floods: the display is capped at 30 fps while output pours in, but typing and scrolling stay full speed. CPU use is 16–37% lower on heavy output.
Matrix Rain, Radar Sweep and Busy Mode use less CPU.

Changed

CybaTerm’s focus is a fun, fast terminal. From 1.0 on, new features are widgets and themes.

Help & resources

CybaTerm Help Center: getting started, themes, prompts, widgets, SSH, Grok, shortcuts and troubleshooting
Keyboard shortcuts · Troubleshooting
CybaTerm privacy policy
Report a bug in CybaTerm
Questions? Email [email protected]

Privacy

CybaTerm has no telemetry, analytics, ads, crash-report upload or account, and it opens no listening ports on your Mac. Version 1.0.0 has no update check and no license check. Widgets connect to the internet only when you add and use them, and secrets like your xAI API key stay in the macOS Keychain on this Mac only. The Grok Bot widget only sees your terminal screen if you turn Screen: ON, and shows a red SCREEN SHARED badge while it does. Read the CybaTerm privacy policy →

FAQ

Can I download CybaTerm yet?

Not yet. CybaTerm 1.0.0 is coming soon as a direct download from this site. This page will link to it as soon as it’s ready.

Is CybaTerm on the Mac App Store?

No. CybaTerm will be a direct download from this site, signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple.

Which Macs does it run on?

Macs with Apple silicon running macOS 14.0 Sonoma or later. There’s no Intel version.

Does CybaTerm have split panes or tabs?

No. CybaTerm is one terminal plus a widget drawer of up to 5 panes. It’s built to be a fun, fast terminal, and new features come as widgets and themes.

Will it change my shell config?

No. CybaTerm runs your normal login zsh with your own dotfiles and never edits them. Pick Keep my prompt or Auto to keep Powerlevel10k, Starship or your own prompt.

How do I get updates?

CybaTerm 1.0.0 doesn’t check for updates. Automatic updates are planned.

Does CybaTerm collect any data?

No. There’s no telemetry, no analytics and no tracking, and CybaTerm opens no listening ports. Widgets like Neon Weather and Grok Bot connect only when you use them; the privacy policy lists every connection.

Where are my passwords and keys stored?

In the macOS Keychain, stored for this Mac only so they don’t sync to other devices. When widgets share your SSH login, your credentials are never logged.

Can Grok see my screen?

Only if you turn on Screen: ON in the Grok Bot widget. It’s off by default, and a red SCREEN SHARED badge and a notice on every send show while it’s on.