kitty - the fast, feature-rich, cross-platform, GPU based terminal

If you live in the terminal, kitty is made for you!

See the kitty website.

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To ask other questions about kitty usage, use either the discussions on GitHub or the Reddit community

Packaging status in various repositories:

Name	Name	Last commit message	Last commit date
Latest commit kovidgoyal Fix #9355 Jan 6, 2026 df17142 · Jan 6, 2026 History 16,983 Commits
.github	.github	Nicer 403 error andling when downloading grype	Jan 2, 2026
3rdparty	3rdparty	...	Jul 14, 2024
bypy	bypy	Bump version of libpng for CVE	Dec 7, 2025
docs	docs	Fix #9355	Jan 6, 2026
gen	gen	Move parsing of colors fully into C	Dec 31, 2025
glad	glad	More robust detection of support for GL_FRAMEBUFFER_SRGB	Aug 11, 2025
glfw	glfw	Remove unneeded axis event timestamp	Jan 5, 2026
kittens	kittens	themes kitten: Also underline trigger keys on confirmation page. Appa…	Jan 2, 2026
kitty	kitty	Fix #9355	Jan 6, 2026
kitty_tests	kitty_tests	Move parsing of colors fully into C	Dec 31, 2025
logo	logo	Oxipng/svgo images to save some 150KB~	Mar 26, 2024
shell-integration	shell-integration	choose files: Add default mappings to choose a file and insert it int…	Nov 23, 2025
terminfo	terminfo	While here, might as well add blink capability to terminfo as well	Jan 3, 2026
tools	tools	Fix edit-in-kitty +lnum path	Jan 1, 2026
.editorconfig	.editorconfig	Fix indentation in codeql yml file	Apr 14, 2025
.gitattributes	.gitattributes	Move parsing of colors fully into C	Dec 31, 2025
.gitignore	.gitignore	Nicer way to include grapheme test data in Go tests	Mar 27, 2025
Brewfile	Brewfile	See if dropping pkgconf fixes CI build	Nov 23, 2024
CHANGELOG.rst	CHANGELOG.rst	Use new URL scheme and define the kitty website centrally as much as …	Jul 27, 2021
CONTRIBUTING.md	CONTRIBUTING.md	Fix misspellings	Jun 14, 2023
INSTALL.md	INSTALL.md	Format the INSTALL.md links	Sep 24, 2021
LICENSE	LICENSE	Update link	Sep 28, 2021
Makefile	Makefile	Update docs for new develop builds	Jul 29, 2023
README.asciidoc	README.asciidoc	Update some docs	Oct 7, 2025
SECURITY.md	SECURITY.md	...	Sep 15, 2025
__main__.py	__main__.py	Make shebangs consistent	Nov 11, 2023
benchmark.py	benchmark.py	Make mypy 1.16 happy	May 30, 2025
build-terminfo	build-terminfo	Make the terminfo database available in the compiled module	Mar 21, 2024
count-lines-of-code	count-lines-of-code	Update the list of nerd font names when updating other unicode data a…	May 21, 2025
dev.sh	dev.sh	Update docs for new develop builds	Jul 29, 2023
embeds.go	embeds.go	Code to serialize/unserialize loaded images	Oct 7, 2025
go.mod	go.mod	Bump github.com/shirou/gopsutil/v4 in the all-go-deps group	Jan 5, 2026
go.sum	go.sum	Bump github.com/shirou/gopsutil/v4 in the all-go-deps group	Jan 5, 2026
key_encoding.json	key_encoding.json	Add JSON definition of key encoding	Feb 7, 2018
publish.py	publish.py	Use a full qualified name for SBOM generation	Sep 18, 2025
pyproject.toml	pyproject.toml	Specify python dependencies in pyproject.toml	Sep 16, 2025
rsync-and-build.sh	rsync-and-build.sh	Slightly improve rsync script	May 9, 2025
session.vim	session.vim	Switch to LSP for mypy	Mar 28, 2024
setup.py	setup.py	Set building flag globally	Dec 4, 2025
shell.nix	shell.nix	fix: add missing pkgs and manually add font for nix shell	May 10, 2025
staticcheck.conf	staticcheck.conf	configure staticcheck	Nov 14, 2022
test.py	test.py	Dont change the env for go tests	Nov 14, 2022
update-on-ox	update-on-ox	Allow turning off stripping in update-on-ox	Aug 18, 2024

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