diff --git a/forgit.plugin.fish b/forgit.plugin.fish
index 8e8d7ad..5991f90 100755
--- a/forgit.plugin.fish
+++ b/forgit.plugin.fish
@@ -13,11 +13,6 @@ function forgit::inside_work_tree
     git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree >/dev/null; 
 end
 
-if not type -q fzf > /dev/null 2>&1
-     forgit::warn "FZF not found and is required for forgit"
-     exit 1
-end
-
 set core_pager (git config core.pager)
 
 if test -n $core_pager
diff --git a/forgit.plugin.zsh b/forgit.plugin.zsh
index 6ae7048..dfebdc5 100755
--- a/forgit.plugin.zsh
+++ b/forgit.plugin.zsh
@@ -3,8 +3,6 @@ forgit::warn() { printf "%b[Warn]%b %s\n" '\e[0;33m' '\e[0m' "$@" >&2; }
 forgit::info() { printf "%b[Info]%b %s\n" '\e[0;32m' '\e[0m' "$@" >&2; }
 forgit::inside_work_tree() { git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree >/dev/null; }
 
-hash fzf &>/dev/null || { forgit::warn "FZF not found and is required for forgit"; return 1; }
-
 # https://github.com/wfxr/emoji-cli
 hash emojify &>/dev/null && forgit_emojify='|emojify'