Ghostty

Overview

Ghostty is a high-performance, open-source, cross-platform terminal emulator built in Zig that combines native platform UI with GPU-accelerated rendering. It delivers excellent speed, modern features, advanced window management, full standards compliance, and deep customization, offering a powerful and elegant alternative to traditional terminals on macOS and Linux.

Key features

• Zig
• Terminal emulator
• GPU acceleration
• Cross-platform
• Metal
• OpenGL
• Native UI
• High performance
• Open source
• Modern terminal
• Tabbed interface
• Split panes
• Themes
• Ligatures
• Kitty graphics protocol
• Developer tools
• Command-line