Fast and Fast

The Rio has fast performance, leveraging the latest technologies including Rust and advanced rendering architectures.

24-bit true color

Regular terminals are limited to just 256 colors, the Rio supports "true color," which means it can display up to 16 million colors.

Images in Terminal

Display images within the terminal using Kitty and iTerm2 image protocols, or using Sixel.

Cross-platform

Rio is a cross-platform app that runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, and FreeBSD.

Font ligatures

Font ligatures support as a way to improve readability of common expressions or operators.

Splits

Support to split and manage terminal screens in any platform that you would want to.

RetroArch shaders

Rio support configure custom filters and CRT shaders through RetroArch shader files.

Native GPU rendering

Rio renders natively on the GPU using Metal on macOS and Vulkan on Linux and Windows.