tmux vs Zellij
How has interest in each changed?
Collected from public datasets outside Stackness, not from stacks on this site. A series both tools have shares one chart and one scale, because its unit is the same for both. Data sources
Mentions, monthly
tmux: Hacker News mentions: 2 mentions (2009) to 161 mentions (2026)
Zellij: Hacker News mentions: 1 mention (2021) to 24 mentions (2026)
Imported from Hacker News mentions
Installs, monthly
tmux: Homebrew analytics installs: 44,830 installs (2026)
Zellij: Homebrew analytics installs: 3,098 installs (2026)
Imported from Homebrew analytics
Installs, yearly
tmux: Homebrew analytics installs: 558,608 installs (2026)
Zellij: Homebrew analytics installs: 57,162 installs (2026)
Imported from Homebrew analytics
Questions asked, monthly
tmux: Stack Exchange data explorer questions asked: 1 question (2009) to 1 question (2025)
Zellij: Stack Exchange data explorer questions asked: 2 questions (2025)
Imported from Stack Exchange data explorer
Series only one of them has
tmux: Wikipedia pageviews: 6,010 views (2015) to 3,761 views (2026). Imported from Wikipedia pageviews.
Who uses both?
No member lists both tmux and Zellij yet.
No member has recorded moving from one to the other yet.
What do people pair them with?
Tools that members list in the same stack as each of them.
Which moves use tmux?
- One tmux session per project with fixed window layout by Mika Johansson