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. iTerm icon
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    iTerm is a full featured terminal emulation program written for OS X using Cocoa. We are aiming at providing users with best command line experience under OS X. The letter i represents a native Apple look and feel of the program interface, and an emphasis on complete...

    93 iTerm alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
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  2. mintty icon
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    Mintty is a terminal emulator for Cygwin that is based on code from PuTTY 0.60 by Simon Tatham and team.

    54 mintty alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
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  3. GNOME Console icon
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    A simple user-friendly terminal emulator for the GNOME desktop.

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    • Linux
    • GNOME
    • Linux Mobile
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  4. upterm icon
     23 likes

    A terminal emulator for the 21st century. (formerly) Black Screen is a terminal emulator and interactive shell with auto-completion.

    88 upterm alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Electron / Atom Shell
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  5. Xfce4-Terminal icon
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    Xfce Terminal is a lightweight and easy to use terminal emulator application with many advanced features including drop down, tabs, unlimited scrolling, full colors, fonts, transparent backgrounds, and more.

    82 Xfce4-Terminal alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Xfce
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  6. Extraterm icon
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    Extraterm is more than just a traditional terminal emulator. It provides a toolbox for working with your terminal and command line applications, allowing you to capture and reuse previous command output across your terminal sessions, preview images and rich media directly, and...

    62 Extraterm alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Cygwin
    • AppImage
    • Typescript
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  7. rxvt-unicode icon
     29 likes

    Rxvt-unicode is a highly customizable terminal emulator forked from rxvt. Commonly known as urxvt, rxvt-unicode can be daemonized to run clients within a single process in order to minimize the use of system resources.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Linux
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  8. xterm icon
     30 likes

    The xterm program is a terminal emulator for the X Window System. It provides DEC VT102 and Tektronix 4014 compatible terminals for programs that can't use the window system directly.

    85 xterm alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  9. Otty icon
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    Native GPU-accelerated terminal with keyboard-first design, agent compatibility, Unicode, ligatures, inline images, true color, tabs, panes, splits, session recovery, rich color schemes, real-time notifications, fuzzy search, custom layouts, and quick navigation.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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  10. ConsoleZ icon
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    console - This is a modified version of Console 2 for a better experience under Windows Vista/7/8 and a better visual rendering.

    95 ConsoleZ alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
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