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Terminal Candy

Last updated 2026-08-01 · benchmark checked 2026-09-26 · unchanged since 2026-08-09 — deterministic & reproducible

Terminal Candy is a native macOS terminal app that lets you wrap a real shell in any custom skin.

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Legit.Show scored Terminal Candy 78/100 on 2026-09-26, measured across all 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/terminalcandy-com/2026-09-26

Is Terminal Candy production-ready?

Legit.Show scores Terminal Candy 78 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Terminal Candy (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Discoverability; its weakest is Security. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

• Performance — 62/100
• Accessibility — 96/100
• Security — 45/100
  How this compares across the catalogue: The Web Security Baseline
• Privacy — 75/100
  How this compares across the catalogue: The Privacy Gap
• Reliability — 75/100
• Standards — 92/100
• Discoverability — 100/100

What we measured

• Security headers present: X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy.
• No Content-Security-Policy and no HSTS.
• Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
• Real Lighthouse performance run — 269 ms to first byte.
• 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
• Has a reachable privacy policy.
• Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
• Discoverable: structured data, sitemap, OpenGraph image, canonical URL.

Who built it

Peter Hough

Who it's for

macOS developers · AI agent builders · Terminal power users · Claude code runners

Pricing

One-time $10 license after 14-day free trial; no subscription

Sources and updates

Description

Taken from terminalcandy.com's own website on 2026-08-01.

Operator

Terminal Candy, as named in terminalcandy.com's terms, privacy page or footer.

Benchmark

Measured by Legit.Show from the live site, the way any visitor sees it — with no access to its code or accounts. Same method for every product, and no AI decides the score. Last checked 2026-09-26.

Put together from public information, without Terminal Candy's involvement. If anything here is wrong, tell us and a person will check it.

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