Tabby is an infinitely customizable cross-platform terminal app for local shells, serial, SSH and Telnet connections.



Black Box is described as 'Native terminal emulator that offers superb theming options' and is a terminal emulator in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Black Box for a variety of platforms, including Linux, BSD, Mac, Windows and KDE Plasma apps. The best Black Box alternative is Tabby, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Black Box are Kitty terminal, Alacritty, Konsole and Terminator.
Tabby is an infinitely customizable cross-platform terminal app for local shells, serial, SSH and Telnet connections.



Kitty ( not to be confused with KiTTY ) is a powerful, cross-platform GPU-based terminal emulator. It offloads rendering to the GPU and uses OpenGL for fast, cross-platform performance with built-in tiling layouts as well as graphic, unicode...


Alacritty is a 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.


Konsole is a terminal to run a command shell. It provides a command line interface for directly controlling your computer.




Terminator enables the user to run and manage multiple terminal emulators side-by-side in the same window. The main focus is arranging terminals in a grid. (Tabs is the most common default method, which Terminator also supports.




GNOME Terminal is a terminal emulator for the GNOME desktop environment written by Havoc Pennington and others. Terminal emulators allow users to execute commands using a real UNIX shell while remaining on their graphical desktop.

Yakuake is a drop-down (Quake-style) terminal emulator based on KDE Konsole technology. Its design was inspired from consoles in computer games such as Quake which slide down from the top of the screen when a key is pressed, and slide back up when the key is pressed again.

Hyper™ is a beautiful and extensible, cross-platform terminal built on open web standards. It provides an elegant command-line experience that is consistent across all supported platforms which includes macOS, Windows and various Linux distributions like Fedora and Debian.




A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust



Termora is developed using Kotlin/JVM and partially implements the XTerm protocol (with ongoing improvements). Its ultimate vision is to achieve full platform support (including Android, iOS, and iPadOS) through Kotlin Multiplatform.

Fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator. Supports daemon mode, Sixel, and scrollback search.
Terminal emulator which mimics the look and feel of the old cathode tube screens, designed for eye-candy with lots of graphic options.


