Aster for Mac
Terminal workspace placing Ghostty terminals beside files, editors, and previews with recursive splits.
By rambocode. Free and open source, MIT licence.
Aster at a glance
- Version
- 0.6.17
- Released
- 5 October 2026
- Download size
- 48 MB
- Works on
- Apple silicon and Intel
- Licence
- MIT
- Category
- Developer Tools
- Developer
- rambocode
- GitHub stars
- 7
About Aster
Native macOS terminal workspace built in pure AppKit — tabs, recursive splits, file browser, editor and previews in one window. Powered by the Ghostty terminal engine.
Screenshots


How to install Aster on a Mac
- Get OpenDMG. It is a free app store for open source Mac apps. Download OpenDMG.
- Search for Aster and press Get. OpenDMG downloads version 0.6.17 from rambocode's own GitHub release.
- Open it. The download is checked against its SHA-256 fingerprint and its signature is checked on your Mac before it lands in Applications.
Updates to Aster show up in OpenDMG and install with one button. No account is needed.
Prefer to do it by hand? The developer's file is on GitHub: Aster-0.6.17.dmg (48 MB).
What is new in Aster 0.6.17
## 修复 - 修复「设置 ▸ 外观」里看不到「界面文字」分组的问题。0.6.16 加的「界面字号」和「加深界面文字」现在能在设置里找到了。
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