ghostty-org/ghostty
- Total stars
- 63,130
- Today
- +13since 11:01 UTC
More actions
👻 Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.
Save to My finds to follow releases and star growth. Saved in this browser.
About the project
Cross-platform terminal emulator with native UI and GPU acceleration, plus the libghostty library for embedding a terminal into third-party applications.
Useful for
- Replace the current terminal with a fast one supporting Kitty graphics and synchronized rendering
- Embed a terminal into a custom app via libghostty-vt in C or Zig
- Organize work across multiple windows, tabs, and splits with tab renaming
README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate. Read the original README →
Star growth looks organic. Data as of November 1, 2026, 13:16 UTC.
The star-growth assessment does not verify whether the project is safe to run.
Stars per day
Bars show stars per UTC day; the line is a moving average of available history. Gaps mean missing data, not zero growth. Today's bar is incomplete. Red marks spike days.
Why it’s trending
- Star-counter measurements on 2026-11-01 (UTC), 11:01–13:08: 63117 → 63130 stars (+13). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +30 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- GitHub Trending this week: #16, +556 stars.
- Hacker News: “Ghostty 1.4” — 1,354 points, 4 days ago.
- About 16 forks a day — people are taking the code.
Measured growth: the last 7 completed days
New stars over 7 days: 563. +106% versus the preceding 7 days.
Daily measurements · UTC
- October 25, 2026
- 33
- October 26, 2026
- 36
- October 27, 2026
- 134
- October 28, 2026
- 137
- October 29, 2026
- 98
- October 30, 2026
- 68
- October 31, 2026
- 57
Largest measured day in the last 30 days: 137 · October 28, 2026. Days with data: 30.
Completed days come from GitHub star history; today and forecasts are excluded from this comparison. History checked: November 1, 2026, 13:15 UTC. Sources and measurement limits →
Three GitHub discoveries in each edition
What they do, why they are gaining interest, and what to check before using them.
Editions at 10:00, 16:00, 22:00 MSK.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 63,130
- Today
- +13 stars measured 2026-11-01, 11:01–13:08 UTC, ≈ 30 by evening
- Forks
- 3,812
- Issues and pull requests
- 8,176
- Watchers
- 210
- Language
- Zig
- License
- MIT
- Latest release
- tip · November 17, 2022
- Created
- March 29, 2022
- Last push
- November 1, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
Hacker News discussions
- Ghostty 1.41,354 points, October 27, 2026
Spotted in
- November 1, 2026GitHub Trending this week: #16, +556 stars
README badge
Paste it into your README — the badge shows the current magnitude and links to this page.
[](https://gitnova.dev/en/r/ghostty-org/ghostty)