Otty

Otty is a native terminal app that, in the official positioning, sits between a traditional terminal and a full agentic development environment (ADE). It keeps a clean, keyboard-first interface without the cluttered panels and buttons of an IDE, while offering workflows commonly used in everyday development.

Key features

• Modern terminal rendering: GPU-accelerated with smooth scrolling. Supports programming ligatures, full Unicode and grapheme clusters, 24-bit true color, and styles such as bold, italic, and underline. Inline images can also be displayed directly in the scrollback buffer.
• Themes: Dark and light themes are available, and the color schemes can be customized.
• Interactive links: Click files, URLs, and paths to jump straight to them.
• Natural text editing: Jump and select by word, just like in an editor.
• Tabs, panes, and splits: Tabs can be arranged vertically or horizontally, with live status badges and unread indicator dots. Split layouts are flexible: drag, snap, and resize them freely.
• Process monitoring and notifications: Track long-running tasks and get notified the moment they finish.
• Session restore: Close your laptop and reopen it, and every pane returns to its previous state.
• Keyboard workflows: Includes a command palette (fuzzy search for any action), inline autocomplete (gray suggestion text as you type), Open Quickly (jump between sessions fast), and custom snippets, commands, and layouts (recipes).
• Features for code agents: Run multiple agents in parallel and track task progress, view session history, fork and branch from any conversation (Fork & Branch), queue prompts to run in order with the Composer and prompt queue, and send any output to an agent conversation (Send to Chat).

Target users and use cases

Suited to developers who care about how typing feels in the terminal and about interface quality, as well as users who often run AI code agents in the terminal and want to manage multiple sessions and tasks at once.

Platforms and availability

• The website offers installers for macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel), as well as beta installers for Windows x64 and x86.
• Windows ARM, Linux, and iOS versions have not been released yet; the website offers a waitlist sign-up.
• The website states that the macOS and Windows versions are free to use and require no account registration.
• The website also has a pricing page and a license agreement; please refer to the official documentation for the specific terms.

Worth noting

• Otty is developed by appmakes.io, and the website provides documentation, a changelog, and articles.
• The website does not state whether it is open source; the software is provided under its license agreement.