# Ghostty

👻 Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.

Repository: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/ghostty
Homepage: https://ghostty.org
Language: Zig
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-08-27T00:13:15+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 67/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1618, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 60305, forks 3353 (observed 2026-08-28T04:12:18.812318+00:00)

## What it is
Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration, written in Zig. It also ships libghostty, a zero-dependency C/Zig library for embedding terminal functionality into other applications.

## Use cases
- fast gpu-accelerated terminal emulator
- native terminal with tabs and split panes
- cross-platform terminal for macos and linux
- embed a terminal emulator in my app
- terminal emulator with rich windowing features

## When to choose
- you want a fast terminal with a native platform UI
- you need tabs, splits, and multi-window support out of the box
- you want to embed a standards-compliant terminal via libghostty

## When to avoid
- you need a terminal that runs in a browser or over ssh in a plain environment
- you require highly customized theming ecosystems tied to other emulators
- you need Windows support as a first-class stable target

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: stable
- function: gui, developer-tools, terminal-ui, gpu-computing
- domain: developer-tools, cross-platform
- platform: windows, cross-platform, cpp, rust
- tags: terminal-emulator, gpu-accelerated, zig, libghostty, native-ui, embeddable-terminal, command-line, macos, linux

## Member repositories
- ghostty-org/ghostty (main) score 67
- ghostty-org/ghostling (examples) score 58

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:18.812318+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T16:17:46.970703+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty (fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:18.812318+00:00, sha b64384e89ede)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.