Hyper
A terminal built on web technologies, extended with JavaScript plugins and themed with CSS.
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5 more ways to get Hyper
Other download sites
Run by third parties, not by Vercel. Prefer the official page above when it works.
Package managers
- winget
winget install Vercel.Hyper - Chocolatey
choco install hyper - Scoop
scoop bucket add extras; scoop install hyper - Homebrew
brew install --cask hyper
About Hyper
Hyper is an Electron terminal. Its appeal is that the whole interface is HTML and CSS, so themes are stylesheets and plugins are npm packages, which makes customisation approachable to anyone who has written front-end code.
The cost of that approach is the usual Electron cost: it is slower to start and heavier on memory than a native terminal, and rendering large amounts of output is not its strength. The last tagged release is from January 2023, though the repository has seen commits since, so development has clearly slowed.
Strengths
- Themes are CSS and plugins are npm packages, so customisation is familiar territory
- The same appearance and configuration across Windows, macOS and Linux
- A large catalogue of community plugins and themes
- Packaged for Homebrew, Chocolatey, winget, the AUR and Nix
Limitations
- Electron, so startup time and memory use are well above a native terminal
- Rendering performance on heavy output is noticeably worse than native terminals
- The last tagged release was in January 2023
- Package manager versions often lag the releases page
Details
- Pricing
- Free · Free and open source under the MIT licence.
- License
- MIT
- Developer
- Vercel
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Account
- Not required
- Works offline
- Yes
- Best suited for
- A terminal you can restyle and extend with web technologies you already know
- Categories
- Terminals and SSH clients
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Selected from the TechWalrus downloads catalog (SSH / Terminal); facts checked against the developer's own pages, 3 sources on file.