Appearance

You’ll be looking at a dense canvas for hours at a stretch, so the theme, the direction your tree grows, and where the terminal panel sits are here to keep that legible and comfortable — and to fit the shape of whatever tree you’re building.

The TermTree Theme Gallery showing previews of Midnight, Daylight, Dracula, Nord, Tokyo Night, Gruvbox, One Dark, Solarized Light, and Latte

Dark and light theme

Toggle between dark and light mode with Cmd+Shift+T / Ctrl+Shift+T, or from View > Toggle Theme in the menu.

Theme Gallery

TermTree ships nine built-in app themes, each covering the mind map canvas, terminal panel, and editor. Click the palette icon in the toolbar to open the Theme Gallery and pick one:

Theme	Mode
Midnight	Dark
Daylight	Light
Dracula	Dark
Nord	Dark
Tokyo Night	Dark
Gruvbox	Dark
One Dark	Dark
Solarized Light	Light
Latte	Light

The mind map canvas follows whichever app theme is active — there’s no separate mind map color picker. Your theme choice is saved and restored on next launch.

Tree layout

Control the direction your tree grows. TermTree offers eight layouts:

Eight small tree diagrams in two groups. Single-direction layouts, with the root anchored on one side and branches fanning one way: Rightward (the default), Leftward, Downward, and Upward. Two-sided layouts, with the root centered and branches balanced on both sides: Clockwise, Anti-Clockwise, Left to Right, and Right to Left

Layout	Description
Rightward (default)	Single-direction tree, growing left to right
Leftward	Single-direction tree, growing right to left
Downward	Single-direction tree, growing top to bottom
Upward	Single-direction tree, growing bottom to top
Clockwise	Classic two-sided mind map, root centered, branches split across both sides
Anti-Clockwise	Classic two-sided mind map, mirrored ordering of Clockwise
Left to Right	Classic two-sided mind map, branch split variant
Right to Left	Classic two-sided mind map, branch split variant

Switch layouts from View > Layout in the menu, or from the layout gallery in the toolbar.

Language

TermTree’s interface is available in 11 languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, and Russian. Change it from Settings > General > Language (Cmd+, / Ctrl+,). The new language applies once you choose Apply or OK — no restart needed.

Terminal panel position

The terminal panel can be docked to the right (default) or bottom of the screen. Pick one from the Window menu — Terminal Panel: Right or Terminal Panel: Bottom.

The divider between the mind map and terminal panel is draggable — adjust the split ratio to your preference.

Viewport controls

Zoom

Shortcut	Action
`Cmd+=` / `Ctrl+=`	Zoom in
`Cmd+-` / `Ctrl+-`	Zoom out
`Cmd+0` / `Ctrl+0`	Reset to 100%

You can also use the zoom controls in the toolbar (−, percentage indicator, +).

Pan

Hold Space and drag the canvas to pan around the mind map.

Fit and center

Fit to Screen — Adjusts zoom so all nodes are visible. Available in the View menu and toolbar.
Center View — Centers the viewport on the currently selected node.

Minimap

Toggle the minimap from the View menu or toolbar. It shows a small overview of your entire tree.

Settings

Open Settings with Cmd+, / Ctrl+,. It has four pages:

Page	Controls
General	App theme, language, UI font
Mind Map	Connection line width and style, node spacing, animate active connections
Terminal	Terminal font size, default shell
Autolink	Autolink rules — see Mind Map