# Backtick: Terminal Widgets — Your day as a live terminal.

> Your day as a live terminal. (iPhone/iPad app by Elvis Mederos.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/backtick-terminal-widgets/id6802400384 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Elvis Mederos](https://appshunter.io/developer/1895300240)
- Category: Utilities, Productivity
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 3 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-09-08
- Data updated: 2026-09-10
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/backtick-terminal-widgets/id6802400384/reviews.md

## What is Backtick?

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

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pro | $4.99 | one-time |



## Version history (last 1 release)

### 1.0 — 2026-09-08

No release notes.

## More apps by Elvis Mederos

- [Dialed: Watch Collection](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/dialed-watch-collection/id6763406788)

All apps by Elvis Mederos: https://appshunter.io/developer/1895300240

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