Ten sessions, one sidebar, nothing to configure.

A terminal app for macOS. It keeps every task in its own tab, brings them all back after a restart, and marks the ones waiting on input. It is free and currently in beta.

Added in 1.9.0. Beam streams one tab, live and view only, to a link anyone can open in a browser: no install, no account. Viewers enter a name, plus a short access code you share separately, and appear in your watch list with a generated avatar. Stop beaming and the link dies for everyone, forever.

No. Beam is end to end encrypted. The key travels in the part of the link after the #, which browsers never send to any server, and the access code is mixed into the encryption keys. The relay in the middle forwards ciphertext it cannot read, and stores nothing. Before anything goes live the app also shows a plain-words consent warning, because a terminal can print secrets, and every beam stops itself after an hour unless you lift the limit.

No. The protocol simply has no message that carries input, so watching is view only by construction, not by a setting. Remote control may come later, as a separate explicit grant you approve per person.

Anyone running several long-lived terminal sessions at once, usually with AI coding agents in some of them, who wants to see at a glance which one has finished and which is waiting. If you work in one or two windows at a time, you will not get much out of it.

Yes. Claude Code rings the terminal bell when it finishes or needs an answer, and AuraMux turns that into a badge on the tab. Claude Code only enables that automatically in a few terminals, so on first launch AuraMux offers to set it up for you. It adds one key to ~/.claude/settings.json, backs the file up first, leaves every other setting alone, and will not touch a file it cannot read.

Each tab can hold notes: a to-do, a plan, notes from a call, written with live styling and checklists that tick when you click them. They are plain Markdown files saved inside your project folder under .auramux/, autosaved on the same rhythm as the terminal, and readable by any editor. Close the tab or reset the app and the files are still there.

Yes. Remote View shows a session running on another Mac on the same local network, view only: you can read output and scroll back, but not type. Approval needs a six digit code shown on the Mac being watched, disconnecting revokes access, and the viewer verifies which Mac it is talking to. Local network only, no accounts, no servers.

That is expected, and not a sign of a failed install. The app installs as Aura and the menu bar says Aura, which is what keeps your passcode, your permissions and your settings working across updates. Launch it with open -a Aura.

That depends entirely on how you work, and anyone offering a single name is guessing at your day. AuraMux is built for one situation: several long-running sessions on one Mac, often with AI coding agents, where knowing which one needs you matters and you do not want to configure anything. If that is your day, one command tells you. If it is not, it will not do much for you.

AuraMux does it by default, with nothing to configure. Sessions autosave every 20 seconds and every one comes back on launch with its name, its folder, its colour tag and its place in the list.

Any terminal will run it. What matters once you have more than one session going is whether you can tell which one needs you without checking each tab. Claude Code rings the terminal bell when it finishes or needs an answer, but only enables that by itself in a handful of terminals, which is why it often seems to do nothing at all. AuraMux sets it up for you on first launch and turns the bell into a badge on the tab it came from.

No. It installs alongside whatever you already have and changes nothing about it. Try it on one project for a week and keep whichever you reach for.

Run the same command you installed with, in any terminal including AuraMux itself. It quits the app for you through the same path as Command Q, so sessions and scrollback are saved first, then installs and reopens. Sessions, scrollback, themes, colour tags, your passcode and your Full Disk Access grant all carry over. If it has not shut down cleanly within thirty seconds the update stops rather than overwrite a running app. Set AURA_NO_RESTART=1 to be asked to quit manually instead.

No, but it helps. Every shell AuraMux spawns inherits its security context, so without it macOS prompts the first time any session touches Desktop, Documents, Downloads or an external volume. Granting it once quietens that everywhere. Use Aura, Grant Full Disk Access, which opens the right System Settings pane, then add /Applications/Aura.app.

Nothing. AuraMux only reads and writes its own data in ~/Library/Application Support/Aura at startup. Folder prompts appear only when a command you run reaches a protected folder, exactly as they do in Apple's Terminal. There is no keychain prompt unless you set a passcode.

Nothing. No config file, no prefix key, no plugin manager, no sign-up. You install it and the session list is already there, showing each session's name, folder, git branch and state.

Early. It is in beta, it is not notarized yet, and it is a personal project rather than a company. I use it every day, which is how most of the bugs get found. What gets built next is decided by the people actually using it, so if something is missing or annoying, please say so.

The window, and only the window. It stops someone walking up to an unlocked Mac and reading what is on screen. It does not encrypt your saved sessions or scrollback on disk, so it is not a substitute for FileVault.

Seven, switchable live with per-colour brightness: Aura, which is the default, Classic, which is light, Solarized Dark, Dracula, Nord, a colourblind-safe palette, and No Theme. They are picked for reading AI CLI output for hours rather than for screenshots.

Yes. One tab per session with no limit on how many, and any two of them can be shown side by side with a draggable divider.

Yes, it is a universal build. It needs macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later.

Yes, free to download and use.

No telemetry of any kind. The only network request it makes is checking for a newer version, once a day.

AuraMux is ad-hoc signed but not notarized yet, since notarization needs a paid Apple Developer account and that is a post-beta job. A browser download gets flagged by Gatekeeper. Installing with curl avoids it because curl never attaches the quarantine attribute Gatekeeper checks for. Nothing is bypassed or stripped.