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Contour vs Ghostty

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Contour

Contour is an open-source terminal emulator designed for modern terminals with support for Unicode, inline images, and sixel graphics. It provides a fast, feature-rich alternative to traditional terminal emulators.

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Ghostty

Ghostty is a terminals tool that fast native terminal emulator built in zig with gpu rendering and platform-native ui on macos and linux. It is open source software.

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Quick Facts

Contour

Year Launched2020
Pricing ModelFree
Open SourceYes
CategoryTerminals
PlatformsmacOS, Windows, Linux
GitHub Stars2,893 ★

Ghostty

Year Launched2024
Pricing ModelFree
Open SourceYes
CategoryTerminals
PlatformsWeb
GitHub Stars45,745 ★

Pricing

Contour

Free

Free: 0/one-time

Ghostty

Free

Free: 0

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