License
Quil is released under the MIT License. You are free to use, modify, and redistribute the software for any purpose, including commercial use, provided the copyright notice is preserved.
No warranty
The software is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. In no event shall the authors or copyright holders be liable for any claim, damages, or other liability, whether in an action of contract, tort, or otherwise, arising from, out of, or in connection with the software or the use or other dealings in the software.
Privacy
This website (quil.cc) sets no cookies, runs no analytics, and makes no third-party network requests except to Google Fonts for the Inter and JetBrains Mono webfonts used on this page. It loads static HTML, CSS, and SVG from GitHub Pages.
Quil itself, when installed, stores all state locally under
~/.quil/. The workspace snapshot, ghost buffers, plugin
configs, and logs never leave your machine. There is no telemetry, no
usage reporting, no auto-update phone-home. Quil does not open any
outbound network connections on its own — only the commands you run
inside a pane do.
Your responsibility
Quil is a general-purpose terminal multiplexer. What you run inside a Quil pane — network tools, scrapers, AI tools, databases, third-party APIs — is your responsibility, and subject to the laws of your jurisdiction, the terms of service of any network you connect to, and any agreements you have with third parties. Quil does not facilitate, assist, or endorse any particular use case.
Trademarks
Claude Code is a trademark of Anthropic PBC. tmux, Zellij, WezTerm, GNU Screen, and other project names mentioned on this site are trademarks of their respective owners. References on these comparison pages are factual only, for the purpose of describing software alternatives, and do not imply endorsement or affiliation.
Third-party software
The Windows build of Quil incorporates Microsoft's
OpenConsole
(OpenConsole.exe + conpty.dll, from the
Microsoft.Windows.Console.ConPTY
redistributable), which is licensed under the MIT License,
Copyright © Microsoft Corporation. On Windows 10 these files are
extracted at runtime under ~/.quil/conpty/ and used to host
terminal panes correctly; Windows 11 uses the built-in console host.
Quil also vendors charmbracelet/x
(MIT). Full attribution and license texts are in
THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.md.