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CLUSTER EMULATOR-GPU-TERMINAL · 26 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2021-03-29

GPU-accelerated terminal emulators

This cluster consists of terminal emulators and multiplexers that leverage GPU acceleration for rendering, several written in Rust or built on engines like Ghostty or GPUI, with a few offering theming, inline graphics, or tiling workspaces. Entries appear sporadically from March 2021 through July 2026, with the largest single month (February 2026) contributing four products; early activity was sparse. Corta leads on traction with 2 GitHub stars, while termy-bin and Contour Terminal Emulator have 0 stars each.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

MAR 2021: 1AUG 2021: 1OCT 2023: 1OCT 2024: 1DEC 2024: 2MAY 2025: 2DEC 2025: 1JAN 2026: 1FEB 2026: 4MAR 2026: 1APR 2026: 2MAY 2026: 2JUN 2026: 1SEP 2026: 5OCT 2026: 1
MAR 2021OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 3 hand-coded · 17 unlabelled

Operator · 1 hobby · 1 commercial · 18 open source

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 20 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01Corta4★15 days—hand-codedopen sourceNative macOS terminal emulator with GPU-accelerated rendering and full CJK input support.
  2. 02cyberterm-bin0★2 daysliveopen sourceGPU-accelerated terminal emulator that provides split panes, command blocks, searchable history, AI assistance, inline images, and Lua scripting for developers.
  3. 03tangent0★14 daysliveopen sourceGPU-rendered terminal emulator for modern Linux desktop environments.
  4. 04termy-bin0★16 daysliveopen sourceMinimal terminal emulator powered by GPUI, provided as pre-compiled binary.
  5. 05wasp0★16 dayslivecommercialCross-platform terminal emulator that provides a fast, GPU-accelerated command-line experience using native platform UI.
  6. 06Contour Terminal Emulator0★1 molivehand-codedopen sourceA cross-platform terminal emulator that provides a modal interface, GPU-accelerated rendering, and extensive customization for power users.
  7. 07par-term-bin0★15 daysliveopen sourceGPU-accelerated terminal emulator with cross-platform support, featuring inline graphics via Sixel, iTerm2, and Kitty protocols.
  8. 08caret0★12 daysliveopen sourceTerminal emulator that renders output using the GPU to provide a graphical terminal on Linux desktops.
  9. 09prettymux0★27 daysliveopen sourceTerminal multiplexer that uses GPU acceleration for faster and smoother operation.
  10. 10odytty0★15 daysliveopen sourceGPU-rendered terminal emulator with an Odyssey visual identity, written in Rust.
  11. 11omnidotdev-terminal-bin0★20 daysliveopen sourceGPU-accelerated terminal emulator that runs everywhere and ships as a pre-built binary.
  12. 12omnidotdev-terminal0★20 daysliveopen sourceGPU-accelerated terminal emulator designed to run on multiple platforms.
  13. 13Specter0★1 molivehobbyNative macOS terminal that runs real shells in pseudoterminals, offers native workspaces, and renders with GPU acceleration.
  14. 14rio-nik0★4 moliveopen sourceTerminal emulator that accelerates command-line rendering using GPU hardware and WebGPU.
  15. 15wezterm-nightly-bin0★3 moliveopen sourceCross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer application with GPU-accelerated rendering.
  16. 16crt-bin0★18 daysliveopen sourceTerminal emulator that accelerates rendering with the GPU and themes its interface with CSS.
  17. 17nova-bin0★4 moliveopen sourceA GPU-accelerated terminal emulator that improves rendering performance for faster command-line use.
  18. 18fortty0★4 moliveopen sourceGPU-accelerated terminal emulator written in Fortran.
  19. 19ghostty-git-zen30★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceFast, feature-rich terminal emulator with optimizations for Zen 3 processors.
  20. 20miro0★3 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceGPU-accelerated terminal emulator for fast command-line interaction.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.