One fast terminal. Every OS.

oterm is a fast, keyboard-first terminal that works the same on macOS, Windows,
and Linux — built for developers and DevOps engineers who live in the shell.

Most terminals make you fight them: combining tabs is awkward, moving a session to
another monitor is painful, and there's no clean way to get your layout back the next
morning. oterm is the terminal that remembers how you work and gets out of your
way — real login shells, recursive splits, tabs, and a layout that comes back
exactly as you left it.

Download oterm — free for personal and commercial use.
No account, no licence key, any number of machines.

Why developers pick oterm

• Split your work the way your brain works — recursive horizontal + vertical
  splits, draggable dividers, and a new split opens in the same directory you were
  already in.
• Tabs that stay out of the way — the tab bar only appears with 2+ tabs, every
  tab keeps its shells alive in the background, and Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+P finds any tab
  by typing.
• Hand commands from your AI pane straight to the shell — run claude or codex in
  one pane, select the command it printed, and send it to another pane. It lands at
  the prompt without running, so you read it before it executes.
• Pick up exactly where you left off — window geometry, tabs, split trees,
  per-pane directories, styling, and tab goals all restore on launch.
• SSH without the boilerplate — a built-in connection manager over your existing
  ~/.ssh keys. oterm never stores private key material and launches ssh directly,
  never through a shell.
• Portable, secure configuration — one human-readable JSON file, $HOME-token
  portable, written atomically with 0700/0600 permissions.

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Who it's for

Advanced developers and DevOps engineers who run many shel