Mantel
The lightweight macOS terminal for agentic coding with per-project colors and icons.
Mantel is a lightweight macOS terminal app that assigns each project its own unique color, icon, and name, making it easy to distinguish between multiple terminal windows at a glance. It is built on top of the standard macOS Terminal, requiring no learning curve, and automatically detects which project directory you are in to adapt visuals dynamically. It targets developers and non-power-users running multiple AI coding agents or dev servers simultaneously across projects.
Mantel wraps the macOS Terminal with a project-aware layer that automatically detects the current directory and applies a unique color, icon, and name to each window or tab in real time.
Developers, founders, and product managers running multiple AI coding agents or dev servers across projects on macOS
Background.
- Status
- launched
- Business model
- one-time
- Company
- 83 Ventures
Founders
- Robert Clemenstwitter
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