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Ghostty

Cross-platform terminal emulator balancing speed, platform-native UI, and modern features. Designed for an enhanced interactive CLI environment, offering full standards compliance for seamless integration with shells and CLI tools.

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Cost / License

  • Free
  • Open Source (MIT)

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Platforms

  • Mac
  • Linux
  • Linux Mobile
  • Nix Package Manager
  • Homebrew
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Features

Properties

  1.  Customizable
  2.  Lightweight
  3.  Support for Themes
  4.  Privacy focused

Features

  1.  Cross-Platform
  2.  GPU Acceleration
  3.  Split-screen view
  4.  Tabbed interface
  5.  Support for scripting
  6.  Multi-tabs
  7.  Dark Mode
  8.  Syntax Highlighting
  9.  Portable
  10.  No Tracking
  11.  Works Offline
  12.  Ad-free
  13.  No registration required
  14.  Font Ligature Support
  15.  Xterm emulation
  16.  Multiple Color themes
  17.  Support for Keyboard Shortcuts

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Top Positive Comment
Tintin Yuan
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Doctoral Researcher

A very beautiful terminal emulator. At first I thought the config file is not as friendly as iterm2's GUI, but later I figure the portability and the sense of control of using config file, and love it

Nuncio Bitis
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Meh. It's not easy to change settings. You need to edit a text file to change anything. The default 80x25 with light purple background is not useful.

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What is Ghostty?

Ghostty is a terminal emulator that differentiates itself by being fast, feature-rich, and native. While there are many excellent terminal emulators available, they all force you to choose between speed, features, or native UIs. Ghostty provides all three.

In all categories, I am not trying to claim that Ghostty is the best (i.e. the fastest, most feature-rich, or most native). But Ghostty is competitive in all three categories and Ghostty doesn't make you choose between them.

Ghostty also intends to push the boundaries of what is possible with a terminal emulator by exposing modern, opt-in features that enable CLI tool developers to build more feature rich, interactive applications.

While aiming for this ambitious goal, our first step is to make Ghostty one of the best fully standards compliant terminal emulator, remaining compatible with all existing shells and software while supporting all of the latest terminal innovations in the ecosystem. You can use Ghostty as a drop-in replacement for your existing terminal emulator.

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  •  3,532 Forks
  •  257 Open Issues
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