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Liney is a native macOS terminal workspace app for developers who work across repositories, worktrees, branches, and split panes.
It gives you one focused place to open codebases, switch worktrees, keep terminal layouts around, and move faster without juggling a pile of Terminal windows.
On Windows? liney-win is a separate Windows port — currently in beta. It is built from scratch with Win32 + Direct2D and reuses Ghostty's
libghostty-vtas the terminal core, so it isn't a 1:1 match with the macOS app yet. Try it and report issues.
- Keep multiple repositories and worktrees in one sidebar.
- Reopen the same pane layout when you come back to a repo.
- Mix local shell, SSH, and agent-backed terminal sessions — the file tree follows the focused pane and browses the remote host over SSH.
- See inline images right in the terminal — Liney translates iTerm2's OSC 1337 protocol (used by Claude Code for screenshots) into Ghostty's native graphics.
- Review and commit each agent's worktree changes from a built-in diff window, without leaving the app.
- Stay in a native macOS app built around keyboard-heavy workflows.
brew update && brew install --cask everettjf/tap/lineyDownload the latest signed .dmg from GitHub Releases:
https://github.com/everettjf/liney/releases/latest
- Open Liney.
- Add one or more local repositories to the sidebar.
- Select a repository or worktree and open a terminal tab.
- Split panes as needed and switch worktrees without rebuilding your layout from scratch.
- macOS 14.6 or later
- Universal build: Apple Silicon and Intel Macs are both supported
- Website: https://liney.dev
- Docs: https://liney.dev/docs/intro
- Releases: https://github.com/everettjf/liney/releases
- Windows port (beta): https://github.com/everettjf/liney-win
- Issues: https://github.com/everettjf/liney/issues
- Discord: https://discord.com/invite/eGzEaP6TzR
Power features:
- Lifecycle hooks — run a command when the app or a session starts/exits
- Agent notifications —
liney notifyCLI and OSC 9/777 sequences route through the dynamic island, scoped to the pane that fired them - Inline terminal images — render iTerm2 OSC 1337 inline images (e.g. Claude Code screenshots) by translating them to Ghostty's native Kitty graphics; on by default, toggle under Settings → Terminal
main— development branch, may be unstable.stable— stable release branch. Use this if you need a reliable version of the source code.
Development setup, build commands, testing, repo layout, and release docs live in DEVELOP.md.
Released under the Apache License 2.0. See LICENSE.