Otty

Otty is a native, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator built by appmakes.io, currently available for macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel), with Windows, Linux, and iOS listed as coming soon. It positions itself between a traditional terminal and a full agent development environment, aiming to keep a focused, keyboard-first UI while adding workflows tailored for code agents. The homepage states it is free for macOS with no account required.

What It Is

Otty is a desktop terminal emulator that targets developers who run AI coding agents — such as Codex, Claude Code, and OpenCode — directly inside their terminal. Rather than replacing an IDE, it layers agent-aware affordances on top of a modern terminal experience: session history, parallel agent task monitoring, prompt queuing, and a fork-and-branch workflow for chat sessions. The learn section describes it as sitting "between a traditional terminal and a full agent dev environment."

Modern Terminal Rendering

Otty is built on a GPU-accelerated renderer and supports a range of modern display features:

• Programming ligatures and full Unicode cluster support
• 24-bit true color, bold, italics, and rich underline styles
• Inline image rendering in the scrollback buffer
• Fully tunable color schemes with dark and light theme grids
• Clickable file names, URLs, and paths
• Natural word-jump and word-selection text editing
• Fluid, GPU-accelerated smooth scrolling

Agent-First Workflow Features

The homepage highlights several affordances specifically for code-agent sessions running inside the terminal:

• Parallels and task monitoring — run agents side by side and track each task's progress
• Session history — see every conversation at a glance
• Fork & Branch — take any chat session in a new direction without losing context
• Composer and Prompt Queue — draft prompts and queue them to run in sequence
• Send to Chat — pipe any terminal output directly into the agent
• OSC 26 Terminal Agent Protocol — Otty's proposed OSC sequence for letting code agents report identity, status, task progress, and session actions back to the terminal

Session and Layout Management

Otty supports tabs, panes, and free-form splits that can be dragged, snapped, and resized. Session recovery restores every pane to its previous state after closing and reopening. Additional layout tools include:

• Vertical or horizontal tab sidebar with live status badges and unread dots
• Watch process and notifications for long-running jobs
• Command palette with fuzzy-find for any action (⌘⇧P)
• Inline ghost-text autocomplete as you type
• Open Quickly for instant session jumping (⌘⇧O)
• Snippets, commands, and layout recipes (⌘S)

Current Status and Platform Availability

As of the homepage, Otty is available as a free macOS download for both Apple Silicon and Intel, with no account required. Windows, Linux, and iOS are listed as "coming soon" with a waitlist. The site footer references a changelog at docs.otty.sh/changelog and a pricing page at docs.otty.sh/pricing. Otty is built by appmakes.io and the contact email is otty@appmakes.io.