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Windows, iPad and web
The same terminal runs in three places: a Windows desktop build, an installable app on iPad, and straight in a browser. They share one codebase, so the screen and the settings are identical wherever you open it.
In the browser
Open app.liqterminal.xyz. Nothing to install. This is the quickest way to try the terminal and the version that is always most current.
Your settings, layouts and alarms live in that browser’s storage, so a different browser or a different machine starts empty. Use backup and restore to move a workspace across.
On iPad
The web app is installable. Open the site in Safari, then Share → Add to Home Screen. It launches without browser chrome and behaves like a native app.
The built-in Portrait layout is arranged for a tall screen. Pick it from the layout dropdown in the top bar rather than trying to reshape the landscape one. See the workspace page.
On Windows
The desktop build is an Electron app. It is the only place where two things work that a browser cannot do:
- Saved layouts restore the window size. A browser tab cannot resize itself, so that part is quietly skipped on the web.
- Built-in layouts set a window size too. Picking one resizes the window to the shape it was designed for — 1600×900 for landscape, 900×1600 for portrait, 1280×720 for compact. The size is shown next to each name.
- Always-on-top and native window controls.
The window will not go below 900×720.
How the screen scales
The layout is measured in grid cells, not pixels, so the arrangement you save keeps its proportions on any window width. What changes with width is the zoom, in four bands:
- 1920–3840 wide: the app holds a logical width of 2560 and scales to fit, so the same arrangement lands on a 1080p monitor and a 4K one alike.
- 1280–1920: that shrinking is eased back out, reaching 100% at 1280. Below about 1920 there is little logical width left to gain, and shrinking further only makes the text smaller.
- 1080–1280: 100%. The window simply holds less, and the top bar switches to an icons-only form.
- Under 1080: the app scales down to fit rather than growing a horizontal scrollbar — a sideways scrollbar would push the right-hand end of the top bar off screen.
Resizing the window does not move widgets. The arrangement only changes when you drag or resize a widget yourself. If you want different arrangements for different window sizes, save them as named layouts.
Updates
The web and iPad builds update themselves. If you leave a tab open across a deployment, the terminal notices that it is running an older build than the server, stops syncing and shows a reload prompt.
A stale tab is not only out of date visually — old code can misread new server responses. So the app unmounts itself rather than carrying on behind a banner. Press Reload and it fetches the current build.
The Windows installer build updates itself as well, but on its own terms. It checks for a new build in the background, downloads it, and then says so — the install happens when you press the button, not while you are not looking. A terminal you left open to watch the tape should not restart itself at the moment it matters.
The portable build does not update. It has no install location to write to, so download it again when you want a newer version.
Where the data comes from
Liquidations are collected and served by the Liquidation Terminal API, so the 24-hour history is complete whether or not your app was open. Chart candles and mark prices stream to your device directly from the exchanges.
You can see the connection state in Settings, which shows a latency light rather than a raw address.