# ghostty-org/ghostty

> Cross-platform terminal emulator with native UI and GPU acceleration, plus the libghostty library for embedding a terminal into third-party applications.

- Magnitude: 3.3 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 63,138 total · +21 stars measured 2026-11-01, 11:01–14:30 UTC, ≈ 38 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Developer tools · Language: Zig · License: MIT · Created: 2022-03-29 · Last push: 2026-11-01
- GitHub: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty · Homepage: https://ghostty.org · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/ghostty-org/ghostty

## 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

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-11-01 (UTC), 11:01–14:30: 63117 → 63138 stars (+21). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +38 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.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 3,812
- Issues and pull requests: 8,178
- Watchers: 210
- Average over the last week: 81 per day
- Usual pace: 40 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 6
- Latest release: tip (2022-11-17)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-03 … 2026-11-01: 17, 29, 37, 48, 37, 55, 37, 44, 44, 54, 43, 48, 48, 41, 34, 37, 50, 45, 41, 43, 37, 20, 33, 36, 134, 137, 98, 68, 57, 21

## Hacker News

- Ghostty 1.4 — 1354 points, 440 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50261998

## Spotted in now

- GitHub Trending this week: #16, +556 stars

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Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-11-01 14:39 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.