Ghostty

Fast GPU-accelerated terminal emulator

About Ghostty

Ghostty provides a fast, feature-rich terminal emulator written in Zig by Mitchell Hashimoto, using native UI and GPU rendering. Day to day, it aims to be standards-compliant and platform-native on Mac and Linux without configuration for most users. It fits teams that value dependable, well-documented tooling they can adopt incrementally and keep using as projects and traffic grow over time.

Ghostty key facts

Category: Developer Tools
Pricing: Free — listed in this directory as a free tool, with no paid plan required to use it.
Focus areas: terminal, gpu, native
Official site: ghostty.org

About the Developer Tools category

Editors, platforms, and services developers rely on to build and ship software. The Developer Tools category on Tools Hub currently lists 738 tools. Alongside Ghostty, it includes WezTerm, Alacritty, Zellij, Starship.

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