
Backtick: Terminal Widgets
Your day as a live terminal.
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About
Backtick turns your home and lock screen into a terminal.
Not a picture of one — a working one. Panels drawn with hairline rules, a tab bar you actually tap, a cursor that genuinely blinks, and your real life inside it: calendar, reminders, weather, health, battery.
THE WIDGETS
• Terminal — five panels (overview / tasks / calendar / weather / system), switched by tapping tabs right on the widget
• Console — a navigable menu: arrows move, enter selects, esc backs out, without ever opening an app
• Clock — a live 7-segment face with ticking seconds, at zero battery cost
• Year Progress — every day of the year as a dot; watch it fill
• Elapsed — day, week, month and year as block gauges
• Month — the full month with event markers
• Timeline — upcoming events with durations drawn to scale
• Steps — today's count, distance and energy, with the week as bars
• Moon — tonight's phase as a dot matrix
• bit — a resident terminal creature. It has moods, it types little lines, its heartbeat blinks, and it reacts when you poke it. Bond over time.
LOCK SCREEN
Next-up with live countdown, open tasks, weather with sun times, elapsed gauges, four circular gauges, and an inline status line.
BUILT LIKE A TOOL
• Tick reminders off from the widget — writes straight to Apple Reminders
• Live clocks, countdowns and a blinking cursor with zero widget refreshes
• Five accent phosphors: amber, green, red, paper white, cyan
• True black. Made for OLED and dark home screens.
PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION
• No account, no sign-in, no server — there isn't one
• Calendar, reminders, health and device stats are read on-device via Apple's frameworks
• Weather comes from Apple Weather using your approximate location
• Nothing is collected. There is nowhere to collect it to.
FREE / PRO
The Terminal widget, Next Up, the inline status line and the amber accent are free forever. One purchase unlocks everything else — no subscription, no upsell treadmill.
Privacy policy: https://elv591.github.io/backtick-site/privacy.html
Terms of use: https://elv591.github.io/backtick-site/terms.html
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What's New in Backtick
1.0
September 8, 2026
1
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$4.99
Pro
All widgets, all accents, one purchase.





