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Kooky for Mac

Minimal terminal optimized for AI coding, with workspace sidebar, split panes, and one-click agent launch.

By iAmCorey. Free and open source, MIT licence.

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Kooky at a glance

Version
0.51.11
Released
23 September 2026
Download size
9.6 MB
Works on
Apple silicon and Intel
Licence
MIT
Category
Developer Tools
Developer
iAmCorey
GitHub stars
655

About Kooky

A minimal modern terminal for AI coding experience — Sidebar workspaces; horizontal / vertical split panes; one-click agent launch; per-agent activity readout; live workspace state with one-click Node and branch switching.

Screenshots

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How to install Kooky on a Mac

  1. Get OpenDMG. It is a free app store for open source Mac apps. Download OpenDMG.
  2. Search for Kooky and press Get. OpenDMG downloads version 0.51.11 from iAmCorey's own GitHub release.
  3. 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 Kooky 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: Kooky-v0.51.11.dmg (9.6 MB).

What is new in Kooky 0.51.11

- Fixed: switching Node versions or Git branches, or unsetting proxy variables from the status bar preserves unfinished shell input and the cursor position, even when you keep typing during the switch. Actions run in the current zsh, bash, or fish session without mixing commands with your input or executing unfinished text. Proxy unsetting clears both lowercase and uppercase variables, supports fish, and leaves other terminals' settings alone.
- Fixed: zsh prompts refresh after a status-bar switch, so cached version and branch information stays current. macOS Bash 3.2 preserves your input but refreshes its cached prompt on the next normal command submission.
- Changed: bundled themes now live in individual Ghostty-style files, making new themes easier to add while preserving all existing colors and theme selections. Palette entries keep their explicit color indices regardless of line order. Thanks @kaijianding for the refactor. (#77)
- Fixed: closing an agent tab or quitting kooky keeps terminal I/O available while the foreground processes finish their shutdown hooks and cleanup, avoiding unnecessary waits caused by stopping I/O first. Cleanup waits for the whole foreground process group, with a bounded grace period and forced termination for unresponsive processes. Thanks @kaijianding for the diagnosis and initial fix. (#76)

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