AuraMux
A terminal I built because I could not find the one I wanted.
AuraMux keeps every task in its own session, brings them all back after a restart, and marks the ones waiting on input. It is free, currently in beta, and a personal side project rather than anything I was paid to make. This page is my account of it. The product itself lives at auramux.com.
robin@mehdee ~/dev/app ❯ claude ╭──────────────────────────────╮ │ ✻ Claude Code v2.1 · opus [1m] │ ╰──────────────────────────────╯ ❯ Refactor the checkout flow to the new API ● Reading the checkout module. ⎿ Read src/checkout/flow.ts (218 lines) ● Edit src/checkout/flow.ts +12 −5 ● Running tests… ✓ 48 passed · 0 failed · 3.1s ● Done. Checkout now uses apiClient.v2. ❯
robin@mehdee ~/dev/app ❯ npm run dev VITE v5.4 ready in 412 ms ➜ Local: http://localhost:5173/ [vite] hmr update /src/checkout/flow.ts 12:11 ✓ compiled cleanly · 89 modules ❯ git status On branch feat/checkout-v2 Changes not staged: modified: src/checkout/flow.ts ❯
The interface as it stands today. Hover or tap a label to find it. Swipe the window to see all of it.
⌘K palette⇧⌘T themes
Why
I work in a terminal most of the day, usually with an agent running. That means several things going at once, and I kept losing track of which had finished, which were waiting on me, and which I could ignore. I was also losing sessions on restart and scrolling back through output I had already read.
I asked Tod, our VP of Operations, who is in the code with me most days, whether he knew of a macOS terminal that handled any of this. He didn’t, and neither did my own searching. There are good terminals out there and I tried some of them, but none were built for this. He told me to build it myself and keep it a side hustle.
So I did. Sessions autosave every 20 seconds and restore on launch. Badges show which one needs input and which has new output. Split view handles two at a time. Seven themes, because reading CLI output all day is easier with colors picked for it.
I use it daily, which is how most of the bugs get found. I will keep maintaining it, and once people are using it their feedback decides what gets built next.
What is different about it
Not the idea of showing you which session needs attention. Other people have arrived at that too, and some have built more around it than I have.
What is different is that it asks nothing of you. No config file, no prefix key, no plugin manager, no signup. You install it and the session list is already there, showing each session’s name, folder, git branch and state. If you have tried a terminal multiplexer and given up somewhere in the setup, that is the part worth knowing about.
The other piece is Claude Code. It only turns on bell notifications by itself in three terminals, so everywhere else it finishes, waits, and nobody notices. AuraMux offers to fix that on first launch, in one click.
To be fair about the rest: iTerm2 does far more, Ghostty is faster, and a multiplexer like tmux goes places this cannot, such as a server over SSH. If those are what you need, use them. I do too.
Where to get it
Everything current lives on the product site: the full feature list, the themes, the keyboard shortcuts, the install command and why it is a command rather than a download, how updating works, and the answers to the questions people actually ask.
Free. macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later. Apple Silicon and Intel.
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