Amfora aims to be the best looking Gemini client with the most features… all in the terminal. It does not support Gopher or other non-Web protocols.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- URL browsing with TOFU and error handling.
- Tabbed browsing.
- Support ANSI color codes on pages, even for Windows.
- Styled page content (headings, links).
- Basic forward/backward history, for each tab.
- Input (Status Code 10 & 11).
- Multiple charset support (over 55).
- Built-in search (uses geminispace.info by default).
- Bookmarks.
- Download pages and arbitrary data.
- Theming.
- Proxying.
- Schemes like Gopher or HTTP can be proxied through a Gemini server.
- Client certificate support.
- Subscriptions.
- Subscribing to RSS, Atom, and JSON Feeds are all supported.
- So is subscribing to a page, to know when it changes.
- Open non-text files in another application.
- Ability to stream content instead of downloading it first.
- Highlighting of preformatted code blocks that list a language in the alt text
- Search in pages with Ctrl-F
- Run custom commands using the current or selected URL as an argument.
- Cross-platorm support – runs under Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Website: github.com/makew0rld/amfora
Support:
Developer: makeworld
License: GNU General Public License v3.0

Amfora is written in Go. Learn Go with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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