Alacritty Alternatives

Alacritty is described as 'Blazing fast, GPU accelerated terminal emulator. It’s written in Rust and uses OpenGL for rendering to be the fastest terminal emulator available. Alacritty is available on GitHub in source form' and is a popular terminal emulator in the os & utilities category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Alacritty for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Android apps. The best Alacritty alternative is Ghostty, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Alacritty are Tabby, Termux, Windows Terminal and MobaXterm.

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  1. Terminal icon
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    Terminal (also referred to as Terminal.app) is a terminal emulator included in Apple's Mac OS X operating system. It originated in Mac OS X's predecessors, NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP, and allows the user to interact with the computer through a command line interface.

    126 Terminal alternatives

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  2. MSYS2 icon
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    MSYS2 is an independent rewrite of MSYS, based on modern Cygwin (POSIX compatibility layer) and MinGW-w64 with the aim of better interoperability with native Windows software.

    26 MSYS2 alternatives

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    • Open Source

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  3. Ptyxis icon
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    Ptyxis is a terminal for GNOME that focuses on ease-of-use in a world of containers.

    79 Ptyxis alternatives

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  4. cmux icon
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    Native macOS app built on Ghostty. Vertical tabs, notification rings when agents need attention, split panes, and a socket API for automation.

    68 cmux alternatives

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  5. MinGW icon
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    MinGW ("Minimalistic GNU for Windows") is a port of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) and GNU Binutils. It provides a complete Open Source programming toolset which is suitable for the development of native MS-Windows (x86) applications, which do not depend on any...

    23 MinGW alternatives

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  6. vidrio icon
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    A transparent, borderless terminal that lets your desktop show through. Themes restyle its colours and type.

    54 vidrio alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
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  7. ZOC icon
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    ZOC is a powerful and well-established terminal emulator and telnet client, well known for its outstanding user interface with tabbed multi session support.

    95 ZOC alternatives

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  8. Tilix icon
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    Tilix is a tiling terminal emulator which uses the VTE GTK+ 3 widget with the following features:

    98 Tilix alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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  9. Xshell icon
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    Xshell is a powerful SSH1, SSH2, SFTP, TELNET, RLOGIN and SERIAL terminal emulator for Windows platforms. It allows users to gain access to Unix/Linux hosts easily and securely on a Windows workstation.

    71 Xshell alternatives

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  10. ForceTerm icon
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    Fully featured terminal based on JediTerm.

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    • Java
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