Ghostty

Fast native terminal emulator with GPU acceleration

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macOS

Universal

Intel

Linux

Intel / AMD

Multi-threaded rendering — Dedicated read, write, and render threads per terminal with OpenGL and Metal renderers.

Kitty protocol support — Implements graphics protocol, image protocol, clipboard sequences, and synchronized rendering.

Native platform UI — SwiftUI application on macOS with menu bars and settings GUI, GTK on Linux.

libghostty library — Embeddable C and Zig library for building terminal emulators or integrating terminal functionality.

Windowing features — Multi-window support, tabbing, splits, and tab renaming across macOS and Linux.

Ghostty combines high performance with feature richness by using platform-native UIs and GPU acceleration rather than forcing a lowest-common-denominator experience. It includes an embeddable libghostty library for integrating terminal functionality into other applications. Available as both a standalone GUI app and usable on macOS, Linux, and Windows.

Source on GitHub

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