Integrations with other tools¶

kitty provides extremely powerful interfaces such as Control kitty from scripts and Custom kittens and icat that allow it to be integrated with other tools seamlessly.

Image and document viewers¶

Powered by kitty’s Terminal graphics protocol there exist many tools for viewing images and other types of documents directly in your terminal, even over SSH.

meowpdf ¶

A terminal PDF viewer with GUI-like usage and Vim-like keybindings written in Rust

mdcat ¶

Display markdown files nicely formatted with images in the terminal

ranger ¶

A terminal file manager, with previews of file contents powered by kitty’s graphics protocol.

nnn ¶

Another terminal file manager, with previews of file contents powered by kitty’s graphics protocol.

Yazi ¶

Blazing fast terminal file manager, with built-in kitty graphics protocol support (implemented both Classic protocol and Unicode placeholders).

clifm ¶

The shell-like, command line terminal file manager, uses the kitty graphics and keyboard protocols.

hunter ¶

Another terminal file manager, with previews of file contents powered by kitty’s graphics protocol.

presenterm ¶

Show markdown based slides with images in your terminal, powered by the kitty graphics protocol.

term-image ¶

Tool to browse images in a terminal using kitty’s graphics protocol.

koneko ¶

Browse images from the pixiv artist community directly in kitty.

viu ¶

View images in the terminal, similar to kitty’s icat.

nb ¶

Command line and local web note-taking, bookmarking, archiving, and knowledge base application that uses kitty’s graphics protocol for images.

w3m ¶

A text mode WWW browser that supports kitty’s graphics protocol to display images.

awrit ¶

A full Chromium based web browser running in the terminal using kitty’s graphics protocol.

chawan ¶

A text mode WWW browser that supports kitty’s graphics protocol to display images.

mpv ¶

A video player that can play videos in the terminal.

A terminal image and video viewer, that displays static and animated images or plays videos. Fast multi-threaded loading, JPEG exif rotation, grid view and connecting to the webcam make it a versatile terminal utility.

System and data visualisation tools¶

neofetch ¶

A command line system information tool that shows images using kitty’s graphics protocol

matplotlib¶

There exist multiple backends for matplotlib to draw images directly in kitty.

KittyTerminalImages.jl ¶

Show images from Julia directly in kitty

euporie ¶

A text-based user interface for running and editing Jupyter notebooks, powered by kitty’s graphics protocol for displaying plots

gnuplot ¶

A graphing and data visualization tool that can be made to display its output in kitty with the following bash snippet:

function iplot {
    cat <<EOF | gnuplot
    set terminal pngcairo enhanced font 'Fira Sans,10'
    set autoscale
    set samples 1000
    set output '|kitten icat --stdin yes'
    set object 1 rectangle from screen 0,0 to screen 1,1 fillcolor rgb"#fdf6e3" behind
    plot $@
    set output '/dev/null'
EOF
}

Add this to bashrc and then to plot a function, simply do:

iplot 'sin(x*3)*exp(x*.2)'

tgutui ¶

A Terminal Operating Test hardware equipment

onefetch ¶

A tool to fetch information about your git repositories

patat ¶

Terminal based presentations using pandoc and kitty’s image protocol for images

wttr.in ¶

A tool to display weather information in your terminal with curl

wl-clipboard-manager ¶

View and manage the system clipboard under Wayland in your kitty terminal

NEMU ¶

TUI for QEMU used to manage virtual machines, can display the Virtual Machine in the terminal using the kitty graphics protocol.

Editor integration¶

kitty can be integrated into many different terminal based text editors to add features such a split windows, previews, REPLs etc.

Various image viewing plugins for editors¶

snacks.nvim - Enables seamless inline images in various file formats within nvim
image.nvim - Bringing images to neovim
image_preview.nvim - Image preview for neovim
hologram.nvim - view images inside nvim