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Terminal · Ghostty project (fiscally sponsored by Hack Club; created by Mitchell Hashimoto)

Ghostty

Native-UI terminal for macOS and Linux with GPU rendering, tabs, splits and Kitty graphics support. It runs the system ssh; shell-integration options only help with TERM/terminfo on remote hosts.

Official site

~/facts

platforms
macOSLinux
price
FreeFree (seen 2026-10-20); sponsor page states it is free and open source, donation-funded
source
Open sourceLicence: MIT
github
ghostty-org/ghostty 62.4k stars, seen 2026-10-20

~/features

✓ documented · – absent or not in its feature list · ? not verified

+ strengths

  • Native windows, tabs and splits (Metal on macOS, OpenGL on Linux), with hundreds of bundled themes and light/dark auto-switching
  • Supports the Kitty graphics and keyboard protocols, ligatures and grapheme clustering
  • ssh-terminfo shell integration installs its terminfo entry on remote hosts on first connect and falls back to xterm-256color on failure

! weak points

  • No Windows build; the features page says Windows is planned
  • Not an SSH client: the ssh wrapper is a shell function, so scp, sftp, rsync, git-over-ssh and mosh bypass it
  • Scripting is AppleScript on macOS only; no general-purpose API is described; Linux has no official binaries, only distro packages

~/who it is for

best for
Mac or Linux users who want a fast native terminal with sensible defaults and little configuration.
look elsewhere if
Windows users, or anyone who wants saved SSH hosts, SFTP or tunnels built into the terminal.

~/sources

Checked 2026-10-20. Prices and features change; the vendor's page is the authority.

Not verified