Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Ghostty
A fast, feature-rich, and platform-native terminal emulator
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Ghostty launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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A serious terminal emulator with a stupid name. Contribute to pg83/shitty development by creating an account on GitHub.
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Otty▲142Otty is a native, beautiful terminal app. Designed for anyone who cares about the feel of every keystroke.
Jun 2026 · otty.sh · its alternatives →
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Hyper 1.0.0▲413Terminal built and extensible with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
2016 · hyper.is · its alternatives →
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I run a lot of Claude Code and Codex sessions in parallel. I was using Ghostty with a bunch of split panes, and relying on native macOS notifications to know when an agent needed me. But Claude Code's notification body is always just "Claude is waiting for your input" with no context, and with enough tabs open, I couldn't even read the titles anymore. I tried a few coding orchestrators but most of them were Electron/Tauri apps and the performance bugged me. I also just prefer the terminal since GUI orchestrators lock you into their workflow. So I built cmux as a native macOS app in…
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Initial source-only release of Alacritty
2017 · blog.jwilm.io · its alternatives →
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A native macOS terminal app built on Ghostty for running and supervising coding agents - yuuichieguchi/Calyx
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hyper 3▲643A cross-platform terminal powered by web technologies
2019 · hyper.is · its alternatives →
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Ghostty for the web with xterm.js API compatibility - coder/ghostty-web
Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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GHOSTYPE▲133The AI voice interface that learns your style.
Mar 2026 · ghostype.one · its alternatives →
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I built this because I was always creating machines on GH actions to test builds on different OS, and I wanted a tight CLI that could do it. I always saw Actions as this great resources and ephemeral machines you could do dev work in just were a natural way for me to work, so this grew out of that workflow. I didn't expect it to blow up, so it wasn't 100% finished when I posted it. But it should stabilize pretty quickly. Happy to know what you think and talk about it.
May 2026 · ghost.charity · its alternatives →
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If you live in the terminal, kitty is made for you! Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based. - kovidgoyal/kitty
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Not sure if I would post this for the last day of #marchintosh OR wait for tomorrow the 1st of April. Both apply equally. Anyway, here's a pet project of mine, I made it as a glued on for another pet project of mine, but it developed a life of it's own now and can soar skyward toward success, fame, and glory.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A terminal renderer written in pure PHP. Contribute to soloterm/screen development by creating an account on GitHub.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Terminal emulator written in Rust on wgpu and winit.
Jun 2026 · fastyterm.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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Opinionated terminal emulator for macOS and Linux: splits, workspaces, file tree and prompt built in. GPU-rendered, written in Rust - omnipty-terminal/omnipty
3d ago · github.com · its alternatives →
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scritty▲114Shared, searchable memory for every AI coding agent
Jul 2026 · scritty.dev · its alternatives →
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It's based on the jediterm library developed for IDEs, but it can also be put to work as a standalone terminal emulator with tabs. The library has been around for more than 10 years, but I don't think anyone made a terminal emulator app from it?
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Whereas this is mostly a terminal eye-candy project to get you street cred, it does have some serious aspects. Firstly it solves the age-old problem of low-contrast text, like when you `ls` a broken symlink and the red background colour is too near your current theme's foreground colour. Tattoy solves this by using none other than the web's WCAG 2.1 contrast algorithm for accessible text. Secondly, an explicit design goal is that Tattoy should be able to polyfill new terminal protocols, the `xwayland` of the TTY if you will. Say if we want to experiment with completely deprecating ANSI…
2025 · tattoy.sh · its alternatives →
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2016 · blink.sh · its alternatives →
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Every single day of my life since I started programming back in 2020 I open my projects through the terminal/ghostty. "cd path" + "code .". Until today I don't even know how to open vscode first then open a project from there. I usually have 3-4 vscode windows open at the same time, and I like them in separate desktops (for mac users). i gotta admit, i use 8 desktops, 3-4 for vscode, 1 for arc, 1 for docker, 1 for postman etc. So my daily routine when I turned on my mac was: (1) open ghostty; (2) cd-path+code.; (3) drag the vscode window to a desired desktop; (4) get back to the ghostty…
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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