A terminal for
the AI era.

• Checking, not working

  You hop between panes just to see if anything changed.

• Context that vanishes

  Switch tasks and forget which tab held which agent.

• Quiet waits

  An approval sits in a pane you haven't opened in an hour.

• 01

  Worklanes

  One lane per thread of work. Scroll through columns of panes instead of fighting tab overload.

• 02

  Hooks

  Claude, Codex, Cursor, and the rest report through hooks. Zentty normalizes that into the same sidebar states. A real event from the tool beats guessing from the window title.

• 03

  Restore

  Quit for the day, open Zentty tomorrow. Layout and agent sessions can resume where you stopped. Bookmarks save setups you want again.

How agent hooks work →

• Jump to pane

  Needs-input chips in the sidebar, notifications, and menu bar open the exact worklane and pane.

• Many agents

  Claude, Codex, Copilot, Cursor, and others share the same lifecycle and status in the sidebar.

• Scriptable

  The zentty CLI and pane env vars so hooks and scripts always target the right place.

• Keyboard-first

  Every action lives in the command palette. Rebind anything, or apply left- or right-hand presets.

• Open With

  From the focused pane, open its directory directly in Finder or any editor. Or jump straight to the branch or PR on GitHub.

• Global search

  Search across every pane and agent state in the window. One shortcut, straight to what you need.

• Clean Copy

  Flattens multi-line shell snippets so they paste and run.

• Undo Close

  Last closed pane returns with its working directory and navigation history.

• Task runners

  Package scripts, Taskfiles, just, make, mise, and VS Code tasks show up in the palette.

• Worklane colors

  Local tints in the sidebar mark contexts across rows, borders, and chrome.

• Dev servers

  Listening ports are detected automatically. Open them in your browser of choice.

Zentty is the window. Ghostty is the engine.

Shipped often. Still rough in places. We use it every day.

• How is Zentty different from Ghostty? +

  Ghostty is an excellent terminal, and Zentty builds on libghostty for the same rendering and VT fidelity. On top of that engine, Zentty adds worklanes, agent attention, a command palette, and a native Mac workflow. Ghostty gives you a great terminal; Zentty gives you a great terminal shaped for working with agents.
• How is this different from tmux? +

  tmux is a TUI multiplexer that lives inside your terminal. It expects a config file, key bindings to memorise, and a mental model to learn. Zentty is a native Mac app. No config files, no learning curve: open it and start working. Worklanes, the command palette, and agent attention are built in, not bolted on through plugins.
• What about Warp, Wave, or an agentic IDE? +

  Those move work into a larger environment: cloud agents, built-in editors, file browsers, dashboards. Zentty goes the other way on purpose. It stays a terminal. Your agents run in ordinary shells, your editor and tools stay yours, and Zentty only adds the visibility and attention signals that long-running agents need. See how it stacks up against Warp and Wave.
• Which agents does Zentty detect? +

  Out of the box: Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Copilot, Cursor, Amp, OpenCode, Droid, Kimi, Grok, Pi, and Antigravity. Launch any of them in a pane and Zentty sees it, no setup or plugin needed. Each one gets the same normalized lifecycle (running, idle, needs input, needs approval, done), so the sidebar reads the same across every agent. More adapters land regularly.
• Is my data private? +

  Yes. Zentty doesn't collect any usage data, telemetry, or analytics. The only thing that ever leaves your machine is a crash report, and only if you choose to send it after a crash. Nothing is sent silently, ever.
• Which platforms are supported? +

  Today: macOS 14 Sonoma and up, built natively with Swift and AppKit. Linux and Windows are on the roadmap: Linux next, then Windows once libghostty supports it.
• Where does the name come from? +

  Zentty is a play on Zenjoy, the digital product studio behind it. For over 15 years Zenjoy has been building software and apps that aim to be elegant, simple, and joyful to use. Zentty carries that same intent into the terminal.

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