neovide/neovide

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15189 stars · 629 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Neovide is a cross-platform graphical user interface for the Neovim text editor, written in Rust with GPU-accelerated rendering. It behaves like the standard Neovim terminal UI while adding visual niceties such as animated cursors, smooth scrolling, ligatures, and blurred floating windows.

Use cases

• run neovim with a native gui window instead of a terminal
• get smooth scrolling and animated cursor in vim
• use neovim with font ligatures and emoji support
• attach a gui to a remote neovim instance over tcp or a socket
• run a neovim gui from inside wsl
• edit text with vim keybindings in a standalone desktop app

When to choose

• you want a full-featured, polished gui for neovim on linux, macos, or windows
• you need visual improvements like animations, transparency, and ligatures while keeping neovim functionality
• you want to connect a local gui to a neovim instance running remotely or in wsl

When to avoid

• you are happy with neovim in a terminal and don't need a gui
• you need an ide with built-in language tooling rather than an editor frontend
• your environment lacks a capable gpu driver, since rendering relies on opengl

Facets

application · maturity stable

gui editor graphics text-editors developer-tools cross-platform windows rust neovim neovim-gui vim gpu-rendering skia opengl wsl-support text-editor-frontend linux macos desktop

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