10 alternatives to ghostty
ghostty-org/ghostty — 👻 Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration. (63,434 stars, MIT, ui, cli, dev-tools).
These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 223 licence-cleared components from ghostty-org/ghostty itself.
| # | Repo | Score | Licence | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | commandlinetips/ghostty | 7.5 | MIT | 3 |
| 2 | jarred-sumner/ghostty | 7.5 | MIT | 5 |
| 3 | pluiedev/ghostty | 6.3 | MIT | 3 |
| 4 | wiedymi/ghostty | 6.0 | MIT | 3 |
| 5 | deblasis/wintty | 4.0 | MIT | 119 |
| 6 | wavetermdev/waveterm | 7.1 | Apache-2.0 | 22,591 |
| 7 | contour-terminal/contour | 4.1 | Apache-2.0 | 3,072 |
| 8 | shiweis/ghostty-windows | 6.1 | MIT | 82 |
| 9 | rohitkushvaha01/reterminal | 4.6 | MIT | 664 |
| 10 | nousresearch/wterm | 5.8 | Apache-2.0 | 3 |
The alternatives in detail
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👻 Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.score 7.5/10 · MIT permissive · 3 stars · 199 components · search them
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👻 Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.score 7.5/10 · MIT permissive · 5 stars · 188 components · search them
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👻 Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.score 6.3/10 · MIT permissive · 3 stars · 208 components · search them
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👻 Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.score 6.0/10 · MIT permissive · 3 stars · 196 components · search them
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Wintty is a fast, sleek, smooth, feature-rich terminal emulator based on the awesome Ghostty that uses Windows native UI and GPU acceleration.score 4.0/10 · MIT permissive · 119 stars · 777 components · search them
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An open-source, AI-integrated, cross-platform terminal for seamless workflowsscore 7.1/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 22,591 stars · 575 components · search them
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Modern C++ Terminal Emulatorscore 4.1/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 3,072 stars · 1,991 components · search them
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👻 Native Windows port of the Ghostty terminal emulator. Win32 API, OpenGL rendering, ConPTY, no WSL required.score 6.1/10 · MIT permissive · 82 stars · 223 components · search them
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A Simple Android Terminal Emulatorscore 4.6/10 · MIT permissive · 664 stars · 221 components · search them
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A terminal emulator for the webscore 5.8/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 3 stars · 11 components · search them
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