Ghostty

7.0easy start · #8 of 40
in Terminal Emulators

Runs on Linux, Mac.

Ghostty is ranked #8 of 40 in terminal emulators on The Geeks Club. It runs on Linux, macOS. There is a free plan.

Ghostty plans and pricing

Ghostty Free Free and open source No commercial backing · no dedicated support team ghostty.org · 1 Oct 2026

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Product: Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, native terminal emulator.
Architecture: Its shared core, libghostty, provides terminal emulation, font handling, and rendering through a cross-platform C ABI.
Rendering: Ghostty uses Metal on macOS and OpenGL on Linux for GPU-accelerated rendering.
Terminal UI: It supports multiple windows, tabs, and splits using native UI components.
Themes: Ghostty ships with hundreds of themes and can switch themes automatically with system light and dark mode.
Graphics protocol: Ghostty supports the Kitty graphics protocol for rendering images in the terminal.
Shell integrations: Automatic shell integration is provided for bash, elvish, fish, nushell, and zsh.
SSH integration: Its SSH integration can forward environment variables and install Ghostty terminfo entries on remote hosts.
macOS security: Ghostty supports macOS Secure Keyboard Entry to protect passwords from other processes.
Distribution security: Official macOS binaries are signed and notarized by the Ghostty project.
Platforms: Ghostty runs on macOS and Linux; Windows support is planned for the future.
Support: Ghostty has no support team or dedicated support resources; help is community-provided through GitHub Discussions and Discord.
Project governance: Ghostty is fiscally sponsored by Hack Club, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, and remains licensed under the MIT license.
Price from: Free

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