RACE is a terminal multiplexer that replaces grid tiles with an infinite, zoomable canvas where terminals are windows you place, resize, group and pan around. It’s designed to externalize workspace context so you rely on spatial memory instead of tabs or shrinking panes: canvases persist with their viewports, themes and layouts, shells run in detached PTY hosts so sessions survive RACE restarts (with replayed output and recovered scrollback), and a custom renderer targets very high frame rates for fluid zooming and panning. Available for macOS (trial limits: up to 5 terminals per canvas and 3 canvases) and an x86_64 Linux beta (14-day full feature runs), a license is €29.90.
Feature specifics matter: live mirrors show the same shell in multiple views, groups let you move and zoom sets of related terminals, pinning fixes terminals on-screen while the canvas moves, and an inactivity monitor highlights finished jobs. The bundled MCP server exposes about 33 automation tools for reading, typing, creating and arranging terminals (agents are optional). Themes (611 built-ins plus Alacritty theme support), image placement, full keyboard fidelity (Kitty protocol), focus mode, smart selection, scrollback keys, live config reloading and exhaustive session persistence make RACE both a visual workspace manager and a resilient terminal runner for multitasking developers.
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