kitty for Mac
GPU-accelerated terminal emulator.
Free
In English
Version 0.45.0When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission
kitty overview
kitty is a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator.
Highlights:
- Offloads rendering to the GPU for lower system load and buttery smooth scrolling. Uses threaded rendering to minimize input latency
- Supports all modern terminal features: graphics (images), unicode, true-color, OpenType ligatures, mouse protocol, focus tracking, bracketed paste and several new terminal protocol extensions
- Supports tiling multiple terminal windows side by side in different layouts without needing to use an extra program like tmux
- Can be controlled from scripts or the shell prompt, even over SSH
- Has a framework for Kittens, small terminal programs that can be used to extend kitty's functionality. For example, they are used for Unicode input, Hints and Side-by-side diff
- Supports startup sessions which allow you to specify the window/tab layout, working directories and programs to run on startup
- Cross-platform: kitty works on Linux and macOS, but because it uses only OpenGL for rendering, it should be trivial to port to other Unix-like platforms
- Allows you to open the scrollback buffer in a separate window using arbitrary programs of your choice. This is useful for browsing the history comfortably in a pager or editor
- Has multiple copy/paste buffers, like vim
What’s new in version 0.45.0
- A new kitten to select files at the speed of thought with a keyboard first interface and support for content previews of
- text files with syntax highlighting, images, videos, e-books and more (#9263)
- Add support for the paste events protocol (#9183)
- icat kitten: Add support for animated PNG and animated WebP, netPBM images, ICC color profiles and CCIP color space
- metadata to the builtin engine
- icat kitten: Add a new flag kitty +kitten icat --fit to control how images are scaled to fit the screen (#9201)
- icat kitten: The kitty +kitten icat --scale-up flag now takes effect when not using kitty +kitten icat --place as well
- Add a mappable action copy_last_command_output to copy the output of the last command to the clipboard (#9185)
- ssh kitten: Fix a bug where automatic login was not working (#9187)
- Graphics: Fix overwrite composition mode for animation frames not being honored
- Automatic color scheme switching: Fix title bar and scroll bar colors not being updated (#9167)
- macOS: Fix cycle through OS windows only swapping between the two most recent OS Windows. Also add a cycle through OS
- Windows backwards action. (#9215)
- goto_session: allow specifying a directory to select a session file from the directory (#9219)
- Have reloading config also reload the custom tab bar python modules (#9221)
- kitten @ ls: Also output the neighbors for every window (#9225)
- Have the kitty --start-as flag be respected when used with kitty --single-instance (#9228)
- When expanding environment variables in listen_on allow the env directive to take effect
- macOS: Fix closing an OS Window when another OS Window is minimized causing the minimized window to be un-minimized
- (#8913)
- Do not rewrap the text in the alternate screen buffer. Avoids flicker during live resize with no resize_debounce_time
- (#9142)
- Add a default mapping search_scrollback to open the scrollback in a pager in search mode. If any text is currently
- selected it is automatically searched for.
- Wayland: Fix spurious key repeat events when some user defined callback takes a long time to execute (#9224)
- When moving windows to a new tab/OS Window fix overlay windows not being grouped with their parent windows (#9266)
- Linux: Fix a bug causing colors to occasionally all go black when using mesa >= 25.3.0 with nouveau GPU driver (#9235)
- Fix tab_bar_min_tabs not respecting tab_bar_filter (#9278)
- macOS: Workaround for regression in Tahoe 26.2 that breaks kitty --detach (#9288)
- macOS: Workaround for yet another Tahoe regression causing macOS to start an AutoFill helper process and not shut it
- down on application exit (#9299)
kitty for Mac
Free
In English
Version 0.45.0
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Feb 18 2022
Version: 0.24.2
It looks like the current version now requires macOS 10.14. Any chance of adding back support for macOS 10.13?
Aug 2 2021
Version: 0.22.2
The developer is Kovid Goyal, developer of the remarkable Calibre application. -> https://kovidgoyal.net/ <- He's a hero of mine! (Even if he does *gag* like Ayn Rand and can't cook). If Kovid is 'codear' he's forgiven. Have a read through his website. He's a left-right brainer out to freely help the computer community and that's all right with me. I'm happy to support his work and try out 'kitty'.
Apr 29 2021
Version: 0.20.2
the user codear has a visit count of 1, so this is a typical developer self comment.
can't say if its good, but how the settings are handled seems complicated.
Jul 17 2020
Version: 0.18.1
excellent - cross platform, blazing fast terminal emulator with unique features, like unicode search, configuration terminal, gpu accelerated rendering, ligatures etc. if you frequently use terminal emulator and work on different operating systems - perfect choice.
