iPhone + Mac · works with Claude Code

Leave the desk.
Keep shipping.

aTerminal turns your fleet of Claude Code agents into something you can listen to. Replies read aloud as you walk. A chime when an agent needs you. Your voice as the keyboard. The work gets done — you get your day back.

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Free & open source to self-host · Agent Cloud from $19/mo flat

A young man walking out of a dim office into a bright, sunny world, earbuds in, phone loose in his hand

A day with aTerminal

The best terminal session is the one you're not sitting at.

Agents don't need you watching them work. They need you reachable for the thirty seconds that matter. Everything else is yours.

Slumped at a laptop in a dingy office under fluorescent light

3:47 PM — THE OLD WAY

Six terminals. Zero life.

Fluorescent lights. Watching cursors blink so the work doesn't stall. The agents are fine — you're the one stuck.

Dancing out of a dim office corridor toward a bright doorway, earbuds in

5:02 PM — THE HANDOFF

Pods in. Walk out.

He queues the work, pops his earbuds in, and leaves. The fleet keeps running on his machine. It knows how to reach him.

Walking a sunny street, speaking casually to a phone held at chest height

5:20 PM — A CHIME, NOT A SCREEN

"support-bot replied."

Siri reads it over his music, mid-stride. He answers out loud: "Now clear the support queue." Sent. Still walking.

At a concert with friends at night, glancing at a phone, thumb mid-swipe

10:36 PM — HIS CALL

Swipe. Later.

Front row with friends. Another chime — he swipes it away. The agents keep working. The moment stays his.

Tremendous output. Zero desk. The world is too beautiful to spend it staring at a terminal.

I want my day back

The product

A terminal built for ears.

Every feature exists to answer one question: how much of your agents' work can you follow — and direct — without looking at a screen?

Tap any reply. Hear it.

Every message is read aloud with word-by-word karaoke highlighting, true pause and resume, adjustable speed — even your own Personal Voice.

Catch up on everything

Been away? The Continue listening pill reads every reply you haven't heard, oldest first — including one still streaming in.

Two chimes you'll know anywhere

A warm two-note rise when an agent replies. A soft double knock when one needs you. They mix over your music without stopping it.

Your voice is the keyboard

Dictate replies with on-device speech recognition. On AirPods: press to talk, double-press to send, triple-press to replay — phone locked, hands free.

A real terminal, when you want it

Flip from the readable agent view to a full PTY with tmux history, one-tap chips for continue, /status, ⌃C, and an esc/ctrl/tab key bar.

One inbox for the whole fleet

The Agent Feed collects every reply and every "needs you" across all sessions. Unheard dots show exactly what you've missed.

Announcements, not interruptions

Replies arrive as communication notifications: Siri speaks them into your AirPods over ducked music, and you answer by voice — or swipe: later.

One glance = which agent

Every session gets a deterministic signature color across the whole app. A dozen agents stop looking like a dozen identical windows.

Know your burn

A token usage dashboard self-computed from your transcripts: last 5 hours, last 7 days, burn per hour, input/output/cache breakdown.

Yours, end to end

Your machines — the apps talk straight to your Mac over SSH Your network — private Tailscale tailnet, no middleman relay Your keys — biometric-gated Ed25519 in the Keychain, host-key pinning No accounts, no backend — pushes go straight from your Mac to Apple And when it breaks — the Connection Doctor names the broken leg ("Tailscale is off", "your Mac is asleep") instead of "connection timeout"

Agent Cloud

Your permanent agent workshop — running while you live.

The apps are free and point at your own Mac. Agent Cloud is for when you want agents that outlive your laptop lid: a dedicated server, yours alone, with Claude Code, tmux, and your skills ready at first boot.

24/7
agents that keep working
~30s
wake-on-connect from sleep
1
tenant per server — never shared
daily
encrypted backups, 30-day restore

Yours alone

Single-tenant hardware with a locked-down network: no inbound ports, no shared anything, hardened instance metadata, abuse monitoring.

Your Claude account

You run /login yourself on first connect. We never see, store, or relay your credentials — that relationship stays yours.

Your network

The server joins your own Tailscale tailnet on boot. Same apps, same workflow — your workshop is just always reachable.

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Pricing

Flat. Never a surprise bill.

Metered cloud pricing punishes you for using the thing you bought. Agent Cloud is a flat price — run your agents without doing meter math.

Self-host

$0

free forever

  • Mac + iPhone apps, open source
  • Point at your own Mac, mini, or Linux box
  • Every listening, voice, and fleet feature
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Agent Cloud

$19

per month, flat

  • Your permanent agent server, managed
  • Claude Code + tmux + skills at first boot
  • Sleeps when idle, wakes in ~30 seconds
  • Daily backups · your Claude account, your code
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Agent Cloud Pro

$59

per month, flat

  • Always-on for overnight & scheduled agents
  • Bigger server, 100 GB, extended backups
  • Priority support
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Why we exist

Terminals are walls of tiny text. We built the one you can listen to.

Around one in six developers is dyslexic — and for them, a wall of monospaced output is a wall. aTerminal is accessibility-first by design: listening, speaking, and glanceable color aren't bolted on, they're the founding idea. It turns out ears beat eyes for everyone who runs more than one agent.

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Two apps. One workshop.

Free and open source. Self-host on your own hardware forever — Agent Cloud is there when you want the always-on version.

macOS

Launching this weekend

aTerminal for Mac

The cockpit. Runs your sessions in tmux, manages projects and worktrees, and is the box your agents live on. Notarized direct download.

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iOS

Launching this weekend

aTerminal for iPhone

The companion. The agent view, the chimes, Siri announcements, voice replies, and a real terminal — your whole fleet in your pocket.

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Early access

Be first out the door.

Join the list and we'll send both app downloads the moment they're live — plus first-in-line access to Agent Cloud.

Questions, answered.

Does this work with my existing Claude subscription?

Yes. aTerminal drives the real Claude Code CLI running on your machine (or your Agent Cloud server). You sign in to Claude yourself, with your own account — aTerminal never sees, stores, or proxies your credentials.

Do I need Agent Cloud?

No. The apps are free, open source, and fully featured pointed at your own Mac or Linux box. Agent Cloud is for people who want their agent workshop always on and professionally backed up, without babysitting hardware.

What do I need to get started?

A machine running Claude Code, Tailscale (free tier is fine) so your phone can reach it privately, and the apps. Setup is minutes, not an afternoon.

Is this an official Anthropic product?

No — aTerminal is an independent project that works alongside Claude Code. We think it's the best agent CLI in the world; we just gave it ears and legs.

What about agents other than Claude Code?

Claude Code is first-class today. The architecture is agent-agnostic (tmux sessions + transcripts), and support for other CLI agents is on the roadmap.