Blackbird

A fast, native macOS terminal.

Download for macOS
Requires macOS 14 or later · Apple Silicon and Intel · v0.2.13

Native

Blackbird is a native macOS app, built to feel like something Apple could have shipped.

Fast

Metal renders the terminal at 120 Hz on ProMotion, redrawing only the rows that changed.

Accurate

VT parsing runs on Rust's alacritty_terminal, the same core that powers Alacritty and Zed.

Minimal

There are tabs but no splits, and no profiles, plugins, AI, or config files.

Throughput is measured against Terminal.app, iTerm2, Ghostty, and Alacritty. See benchmarks →