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PathDeck
Visually manage your terminal PATH, aliases & env variables.
PathDeck is an ultra-lightweight (<1.4MB), open-source macOS studio built in pure SwiftUI. It replaces chaotic terminal editing with a beautiful drag-and-drop dashboard to manage your $PATH, toggle aliases, and secure environment keys behind Touch ID.
Hey Product Hunt! 👋
I’m a new developer, and like many people here, I reached a breaking point with my terminal configuration. Every time I needed to add a development path, toggle an old alias, or update an environment variable, I had to open up terminal editors, stare at a wall of text, and pray I didn't break my entire shell setup.
So, I decided to fix it by building a native control center on the outside.
PathDeck (V1.0.0) is a lightning-fast macOS utility that turns your chaotic shell profiles into a visual, interactive workspace. I built it with pure SwiftUI and zero third-party dependencies, keeping the distribution payload under an incredibly lean 1.4 Megabytes.
🚀 Core Features:
• The Path Stack: A visual, drag-and-drop list to natively reorder your system directory paths. It also runs real-time disk checks to flag dead or broken folders in red.
• Alias Studio: A searchable registry to instantly add, edit, or toggle custom terminal shortcuts on and off without deleting them from your code.
• Touch ID Vault: Protect your sensitive environment data (like production API keys) by masking them behind native biometric encryption using the Secure Enclave.
• Time Machine Rollbacks: An automated backup manager that duplicates your profile with timestamps before the app touches a single byte of data on disk.
⚠️ The "New Dev" Safety Disclaimer:
Because I’m a new developer, I am working around the clock to catch every edge case. On my machine, the app runs perfectly and has caused exactly zero digital explosions. Plus, the automated backups mean you have a safety net. But because we are dealing with your holy grail system files (~/.zshrc), please manually back up your terminal config before your first run just in case my code decides to launch your terminal profile into orbit!
🛡️ The Gatekeeper Situation:
PathDeck is completely free and community-driven, meaning it is not uploaded to Homebrew yet. Because of this, when you download the DMG, macOS Gatekeeper is going to have an absolute psychological breakdown. It will throw up a massive alert claiming it’s from an "Unidentified Developer." Please ignore the system panic attack! The project is 100% open-source. You don't have to trust a random binary; you can audit every single line of my Swift package contents right on GitHub to ensure you are completely relaxed.
To bypass the warning, just right-click the app icon and choose "Open" the first time, or use the classic terminal command: xattr -cr /Applications/PathDeck.app
PathDeck is live, fully open-source, and ready for you to experiment with. I would love to hear your feedback, feature requests, or bug reports in the comments below!
Cheers,
The PathDeck Maker
About PathDeck on Product Hunt
“Visually manage your terminal PATH, aliases & env variables.”
PathDeck was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 4 comments, earning #2 Product of the Day. PathDeck is an ultra-lightweight (<1.4MB), open-source macOS studio built in pure SwiftUI. It replaces chaotic terminal editing with a beautiful drag-and-drop dashboard to manage your $PATH, toggle aliases, and secure environment keys behind Touch ID.
On the analytics side, PathDeck competes within Mac, Open Source, Developer Tools and GitHub — topics that collectively have 729k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how PathDeck performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted PathDeck?
PathDeck was hunted by AwesomeOddEven-NightKeys-LunarBlink. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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