# neovide/neovide

No Nonsense Neovim Client in Rust

Repository: https://github.com/neovide/neovide
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/neovide
Homepage: https://neovide.dev
Language: Rust
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: neovim, rust, skia, gpu, neovim-guis
Last push: 2026-08-12T05:40:28+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 87/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 97, release rhythm 67, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2462, "days_push": 21, "days_rel": 141, "gap_med": 50, "n_releases_24m": 8}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 15189, forks 629 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:09.344710+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: application
- maturity: stable
- function: gui, editor, graphics
- domain: text-editors, developer-tools, cross-platform
- platform: windows, rust
- tags: neovim, neovim-gui, vim, gpu-rendering, skia, opengl, wsl-support, text-editor-frontend, linux, macos, desktop

## Member repositories
- neovide/neovide (main) score 87

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:09.344710+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 2026-08-29T17:06:34.194528+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/neovide/neovide (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:09.344710+00:00, sha d3c9ba65ff3c)
  - homepage: https://neovide.dev (fetched 2026-08-29T08:04:28.785121+00:00, sha f8cdd9d34d0b)
  - site_page: https://neovide.dev/features.html (fetched 2026-08-29T08:04:28.787590+00:00, sha 893a906732a3)
  - site_page: https://neovide.dev/installation.html (fetched 2026-08-29T08:04:28.789464+00:00, sha 3accd2dc44ba)
  - registry_crates: https://crates.io/api/v1/crates/neovide (fetched 2026-08-29T08:04:28.793602+00:00, sha 140426c93959)
  - site_page: https://neovide.dev/faq.html (fetched 2026-08-29T08:04:28.791367+00:00, sha c3c0a03c454b)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.