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brew install neovide

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overview

Package summary

No Nonsense Neovim Client in Rust

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neovide

history

Project history and usage

Neovide is a Rust graphical client for Neovim. Its pitch is deliberately conservative: keep Neovim's behavior and plugin model, but present it with a polished GPU-backed GUI, font shaping, animations, smooth scrolling, remote attachment, and cross-platform packaging.

Project history

The `neovide/neovide` repository was created on 2019-12-06, and early public discussion in January 2020 described it as a Rust Neovim GUI that aimed to be pretty without changing the terminal editing experience. That goal still matches the README: graphical improvements where possible, but functionally close to the terminal UI.

Release tags show an early 0.1.0 tag on 2020-01-24 and a long 0.x line through 0.16.x in 2026. The project grew alongside Neovim's API/UI model rather than replacing it: Neovide starts or attaches to Neovim and relies on Neovim for editing semantics.

Adoption history

The repository had 15,088 stars and 619 forks when queried on 2026-07-01, making it one of the visible Neovim GUI projects. Neovim's own website lists Neovide among popular third-party UIs, which is a strong ecosystem signal.

Homebrew's formula API listed `neovide` stable 0.16.2 on 2026-07-01, with 195 installs in 30 days, 1,783 in 90 days, and 6,618 in 365 days. Distribution is broader than Homebrew alone: the docs mention Scoop, Arch, Nix, source builds, GitHub releases, and platform-specific binaries.

How it is used

Users install Neovide as an app or executable and keep `nvim` on the PATH. It can launch a Neovim instance itself or connect to an existing one over TCP, Unix domain sockets, or Windows named pipes using `--server`.

Power users reach for it when they want real GUI font rendering, ligatures, emoji fallback, smooth animations, WSL support, or a local GUI attached to a remote/headless Neovim process. The important package distinction is that Neovide is a client; Neovim remains the editor engine.

Why package nerds care

Neovide is a good example of Neovim's architectural bet paying off. It is not a separate editor fork; it is a packaged GUI that exists because Neovim exposes UI and RPC surfaces stable enough for third-party clients.

Timeline

{'date': '2019-12-06', 'event': 'The `neovide/neovide` repository was created.'}
{'date': '2020-01-24', 'event': 'The 0.1.0 tag was created.'}
{'date': '2026-04-14', 'event': 'Release 0.16.2 was published.'}

Related projects

Neovim
Neovim third-party GUIs
Scoop extras/neovide
winget Neovide.Neovide

Sources

security posture

Risk level: blue

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

Risk classifier

blue risk · medium confidence · tool

Why

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

Signals

text:client

Install behavior

No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.

Recommended review

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local files

Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.

Configuration files

Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.

Linux: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/neovide/config.toml~/.config/neovide/config.toml
macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/neovide/config.toml
Windows: %APPDATA%\neovide\config.toml

executables

Installed executables

Command	Kind	Exposure	Note
`neovide`	executable	indexed executable	Discovered from the local executable index.

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-08-03

manager version0.16.2

manager updated2026-06-25

local dataunknown

upstreamnot available

latest detectednot detected

okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	brew:neovide
Version	0.16.2
Package manager	Homebrew
Homepage	https://neovide.dev/
Repository	https://github.com/neovide/neovide
Last updated	2026-06-25T13:37:56+02:00
Pulse	updated
Bottle	not recorded
Service	none declared

package graph

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source trail

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Combined YAML source

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combined/neovide.yml

Used sources

Geiger risk classifier
Nucleus package database
curated configuration and credential file locations
curated package history
pkgdb category and tag curation

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