Last Updated on February 27, 2026
Eva is a Gemini protocol browser written in Rust using the GTK+ toolkit. Eva is focused on delivering a simple yet powerful interface and clear, readable and beautiful page rendering. It has no designs on being the most fully featured Gemini browser, but instead wants to be the most polished native GTK+ Gemini client that stays out of the user’s way.
Eva’s gemtext rendering has been designed to be clean yet visually appealing, using modern css styling to visually separate elements such as block quotes and preformatted sections, using colored cards with rounded edges and box shadows. The default color scheme has been chosen to provide great readability, while giving the user a great deal of control over appearance.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Tabbed interface.
- Bookmarks.
- Keyboard shortcuts.
- User configurable.
- User controlled styling.
- User specified fonts.
- User specified colors.
- Back-forward list.
- Gemini protocol.
- Render gmi pages.
- Display text.
- Display images.
- View gemtext source.
- Send user input.
- Sensitive user input.
- Downloads.
- Save content.
- Gopher protocol.
- Render gophermaps.
- Display text.
- Display images.
- Downloads.
- Save content.
- Finger protocol.
- Data url’s.
- Display text.
- Render gemtext.
- Display images.
- Save content.
- Spartan protocol.
- Render all content supported by Gemini.
- Upload Spartan content.
Website: codeberg.org/jeang3nie/eva
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License: GNU General Public License v3.0
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| Graphical Gemini Clients | |
|---|---|
| Lagrange | Beautiful typography with full Unicode support |
| Kristall | Browser without support for css/js/wasm or graphical websites |
| Geopard | Colorful, adaptive Gemini browser |
| Agregore | Minimal web browser for the distributed web |
| Castor | Supports the Gemini, Gopher and Finger protocols |
| Eva | GTK+ client written in Rust |
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