Built with Rust + GPUI

A blazing-fast,
GPU-accelerated
terminal emulator.

Native rendering, truecolor support, workspaces, tabs, and git integration — everything you need, nothing you don't.

Download for macOS View Source

256 colors 12+ themes ∞ tabs

~/projects/vterm

Why vterm?

Blazing Fast

TrueColor Support

Full 256-color and truecolor support natively interpreted from ANSI escapes.

Workspaces & Tabs

Multiple isolated workspaces, sidebar navigation, and multi-tabbed terminals.

Git Integration

See your current branch in the title bar. Click to switch branches instantly.

Customizable Themes

27 built-in light, dark, high-contrast, and colorful themes with live previews.

Persisted State

Your tabs, workspaces, theme selections, and terminal sessions persist across restarts.

What's new

Next release

Themes, settings, and safer updates

Added 27 built-in themes, including light, high-contrast, and VS Code-inspired palettes.
Added a settings dialog with Appearance, Terminal, and About sections.
Updates can download in the background and relaunch without losing terminal sessions.
New-version detection stays visible from the Settings badge until you act.

See the full history in CHANGELOG.md.

Install

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/boytur/vterm/master/install.sh | bash

Installs straight to /Applications · no Gatekeeper warning

Prefer a manual download?

⬇ Download vterm for macOS

vterm is free and open source, so it isn't signed with a paid Apple Developer ID and isn't notarized. A browser-downloaded DMG gets quarantined, so macOS will say "vterm is damaged" on first open. That's expected — just remove the quarantine flag once:

xattr -cr /Applications/vterm.app

Then open it normally. Alternatively, right-click the app → Open.

Build from source instead

git clone https://github.com/boytur/vterm.git
cd vterm
cargo run --release

Requires macOS. Linux/Windows support depends on GPUI.

A blazing-fast,GPU-acceleratedterminal emulator.