How to uninstall Terax on Mac

Terax is an open-source, terminal-first AI development workspace built on Tauri, from terax.app and its GitHub project. Its settings, AI sessions, snippets, custom themes and spaces are small JSON files in ~/Library/Application Support/app.crynta.terax, a folder Mole selects by default, so copy it first if you want them back. The README says AI provider keys go to the macOS keychain, never to disk, so they stay behind after an uninstall until you delete them in Keychain Access. This guide covers the Apple silicon download and the Homebrew cask terax.

Quit and remove the app

1. Copy ~/Library/Application Support/app.crynta.terax somewhere if you want your sessions, snippets and themes.
2. Quit Terax from its menu or press Command + Q. In the test it ran 8 processes, which Mole's Status page groups into one Terax row.
3. Open Finder, go to Applications and drag Terax to the Trash.
4. If you added AI provider keys, open Keychain Access, search for terax and delete the entries you no longer need. The test added no keys, so the exact entry names were not checked.

The app registered no login item or launch agent in the test.

Where the data lives

Press Shift + Command + G in Finder to open each path. Skip any path that is not on your Mac.

Temporary caches for app.crynta.terax and the system web view processes that carry it in their names sit in your per-user cache and temporary folders (getconf DARWIN_USER_CACHE_DIR prints the first), and Mole removes them with the app.

Check the result

pgrep -il terax
ls -ld "$HOME/Library/Application Support/app.crynta.terax" "$HOME/.cache/terax" "$HOME/Library/Caches/terax"
grep -n terax "$HOME/.zshrc" "$HOME/.bashrc" 2>/dev/null

• No output from pgrep means no Terax process is running. A printed line is a process that is still alive; quit it in Activity Monitor.
• A path printed by ls still exists. No such file or directory means the path is gone.
• No output from grep means neither shell startup file mentions Terax. A printed line is a reference you can remove by hand. The test did not check whether Terax edits these files.

If you installed it with Homebrew

brew uninstall --cask terax

The cask has no uninstall step, so this removes the app only. Its zap list names ~/Library/Application Support/app.crynta.terax, both cache folders, the logs, the preferences file and ~/Library/WebKit/app.crynta.terax, but not ~/.cache/terax. Running brew uninstall --cask --zap terax removes that whole list, your sessions and snippets included, and does not read Mole's checkboxes. Mole adds --zap only when every path on the zap list sits inside ~/Library, none of them touches a row you left unchecked, and no other installed app claims them. Every zap path is a row Mole selects by default, so for a Homebrew install Mole can use the zap when you leave them ticked; ~/.cache/terax still goes through Mole's own removal if you tick it.

What Mole lists

Mole selects the app, ~/Library/Application Support/app.crynta.terax, both cache folders, the logs, the preferences file, ~/Library/WebKit/app.crynta.terax and the temporary caches. It lists ~/.cache/terax for review without selecting it.

These defaults assume “Remove data and settings with apps” in General › Cleaning is off. With it on, Mole also ticks ~/.cache/terax.

What this test covered

On October 20, 2026, the test downloaded Terax 0.9.0 for Apple silicon from the address the Homebrew cask uses, copied it to Applications without running brew install, opened it past the Gatekeeper prompt and removed it with a source-built Mole with the review rows ticked. Mole moved 11 rows and the app to the Trash. Only ~/.cache/terax was left; Mole now lists it, and a build with that rule was checked by putting the app back from the Trash: it listed ~/.cache/terax and moved it. Status showed one Terax row with 8 processes. The app carries its own Tauri updater, which Mole's update page does not read, and no update was run. AI provider keys, sessions with content, a Homebrew-managed uninstall and Mole's notarized release build were not tested.