Otty, a commercial native macOS terminal, ships with agent-first framing

Category: Dev tools
Status: discussion
Sources: Otty, discussion
Summary: A Show HN surfaced Otty, a native, GPU-accelerated macOS terminal for Apple Silicon and Intel, with Windows, Linux, and iOS waitlists. Marketed features include GPU-accelerated scrolling, ligatures, 24-bit color, inline images, clickable file and URL links, session recovery, tabs and splits, and first-class support for coding agents running in the terminal. The site lists pricing and a license agreement; the project is commercial and does not state that it is open source, unlike Ghostty, WezTerm, and Alacritty. Implementation stack and version are not disclosed.
Why it matters: Terminal projects positioning around coding-agent workflows are a recurring theme, but a closed-source paid terminal is a different tradeoff from the open-source tools developers usually adopt.