Command-line tool

Alacritty

winget/Alacritty.Alacritty

Checked 25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC · Listing refreshed from Homebrew, winget, npm, Scoop and cargo; npm packages checked against OSV.dev

Cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator. cross-platform terminal terminal-emulators

At a glance

Type

Command-line tool

Install on

Windows

Last checked

25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC

Install it

Windows

winget install --id Alacritty.Alacritty -e
scoop bucket add extras; scoop install extras/alacritty

Start a new Alacritty process and create a window

alacritty

Start the Alacritty daemon (without creating a window)

alacritty --daemon

Create a new window using the already running Alacritty process

alacritty msg create-window

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