The terminal built only for macOS
No cross-platform compromises. Damson uses ProMotion 120 Hz, the Korean IME, trackpad gestures, and native menus directly — a well-made Mac app that happens to be a terminal.
Free & open source · Notarized by Apple · Automatic updates built in120 Hz per-pixel scrolling, Korean input without the vanishing first jamo, and full-width symbols that never overlap — rendered entirely on the GPU.
Why it feels different
🪶 Scrolling feels like Safari
ProMotion 120 Hz, per-pixel scrolling, momentum and rubber-banding — the same physics as scrolling a web page.
한 Korean input just works
Type as fast as you like — the first jamo never disappears and compositions never tangle. CJK width handled down to circled numbers.
⚡ The GPU draws everything
A Metal renderer handles truecolor, styled text, double-width CJK, color emoji, ligatures, and font fallback without dropping frames.
🧩 Tabs, panes, layouts
Split panes with springy animations, drag panes between windows, and one-keystroke preset layouts like 20 / 60 / 20.
🛠 Scriptable from the CLI
damson-cli drives tabs, panes, input, and layout over a local socket — automate your terminal, or let an AI agent do it.
🤖 Built for AI agents
Run Claude Code and friends across panes with rock-solid rendering under fast output — or orchestrate fleets of them with Orchard.
Why Damson exists
There are plenty of good terminals, but most are cross-platform apps. Built on the lowest common denominator of Linux, Windows, and macOS, they always feel slightly off on a Mac: trackpad momentum stutters, the first letter vanishes when you start typing Korean, and menus don’t behave like the rest of your apps.
Damson starts from the opposite end: it will never support any platform other than macOS. The goal isn’t “surprisingly smooth for a terminal.” It’s a terminal you’d point to as a well-made Mac app.