Hyper
vercel/hyperReviewed by AI
What it does
Hyper is a terminal app: the window where you type text commands, like Command Prompt or PowerShell, but restyled with web technology so you can change its look with themes and add features with plugins. It is for people who use the command line, mostly programmers. Installers exist for Windows, macOS and Linux, and it can also be installed with Chocolatey, Homebrew, Snap or the AUR. The newest builds on GitHub are test versions (4.0.0 canary) from July 2023, and there has been no release since.
How easy it is to install
A · download and open · Windows
- Windows A
- macOS A
- Linux A
A on Windows: the releases include ready .exe installers (x64 and arm64, about 73 MB) that you download and open. Mac gets .dmg files and Linux gets .deb, .rpm, .snap and AppImage builds, so each system has a ready download — but all of them are the July 2023 canary builds.
Numbers on GitHub
- Stars
- 44,762on Oct 31, 2026
- Downloads
- 57,124,13631,104 this week
- Growth
- +9stars in 5 days
Stars over time
Facts
- Runs on
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- You need to install
- Nothing extra
- To build from source
- Node.js
- Disk space
- 146 MB–439 MB · from the installer
- Accounts or keys
- None
- Cost
- Free · Free under the MIT license.
- License
- MIT (Permissive)
- Last update
- Aug 21, 2026
Risk signals (6)
- Attentionstale releases
Last release on 2023-07-13 (1205 days ago)
automatic check
- AttentionDependencies with known vulnerabilities
Pinned dependencies with known vulnerabilities (OSV): lodash: GHSA-f23m-r3pf-42rh, GHSA-r5fr-rjxr-66jc, GHSA-xxjr-mmjv-4gpg; uuid: GHSA-w5hq-g745-h8pq
automatic check
- Attentionoutdated browser engine inside the app
package.json builds the app with "electron": "22.3.25", a 2022 version of Electron. Electron only maintains its three most recent major versions, so the Chrome engine inside the shipped 2023 build no longer gets fixes.
AI review
- Infoonly prerelease builds recently
The latest three releases are 'v4.0.0-canary.5' (2023-07-13), 'v4.0.0-canary.4' and 'v4.0.0-canary.3' — test builds, not a stable version.
AI review
- Infothird party plugins
Top-level 'PLUGINS.md' and README links to a 'Sample Extension' and 'Awesome Hyper'; plugins and themes are code written by other people that runs inside the terminal.
AI review
- Infoinstall from elsewhere may be even older
README: "The version available on Homebrew Cask, Chocolatey, Snapcraft or the AUR may not be the latest", and the project's own latest build is already from 2023.
AI review
Evidence is shown in its original language.
What Radar could not check
- Whether the 2023 canary build runs well on current Windows 11.
- Whether the known vulnerable lodash and uuid versions are reachable in the shipped app.
- Memory use compared with lighter terminals, since it is built on Electron.
- Whether the project is still maintained: there are commits up to 2026-08-21 but no new release since 2023.