Contour Terminal Emulator Alternatives

Contour Terminal Emulator is described as 'Contour is a modern terminal emulator, for everyday use. It is aiming for power users with a modern feature mindset' and is a terminal emulator in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Contour Terminal Emulator for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Homebrew apps. The best Contour Terminal Emulator alternative is Ghostty, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Contour Terminal Emulator are Tabby, Termux, Windows Terminal and MobaXterm.

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  1. Terminology icon
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    Terminology is a terminal emulator for e17.

    What does it do?

    It emulates a slightly extended vt100 with some extensions and bling thrown in.

    Most escapes supported by xterm, rxvt etc. work Xterm 256 color escapes work Backgrounds (bitmap, scalable/vector, animated.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
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  2. Electerm icon
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    electerm is a terminal/ssh/sftp client(linux, mac, win) based on electron/node-pty/xterm/antd and many other libs, it works like a combination of guake and xshell.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Electron
    • Homebrew
    • AppImage
    • npm
    • JavaScript
    • Fedora
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  3. tilda icon
     39 likes

    Tilda is a Linux terminal taking after the likeness of many classic terminals from first person shooter games, Quake, Doom and Half-Life to name a few, where the terminal has no border and is hidden from the desktop till a key or keys is hit.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
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  4. Blink Shell icon
     9 likes

    Blink Shell is the professional, desktop-grade terminal emulator for iOS. It's a full-featured and highly configurable open-source terminal that can be compiled from the source at GitHub or purchased as a pre-compiled app from the App Store to support the developers.

    113 Blink Shell alternatives

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    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
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  5. Otty icon
     2 likes

    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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  6. ConsoleZ icon
     27 likes

    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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  7. MacTerm icon
     7 likes

    MacTerm (was MacTelnet) on OS X is now a complete replacement for Terminal, allowing access to both local and remote applications.

    101 MacTerm alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  8. Kuu icon
     2 likes

    Fast, polished native macOS terminal. Real login shells on a Metal surface (SwiftUI + libghostty), with native windows and tabs, per-tab zoom, find in scrollback, and a color theme catalog. Secure by default: signed and notarized builds, auto-updates via Sparkle, no account, no...

    52 Kuu alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  9. Automatically tiles and organizes all terminal sessions in one native macOS window, scaling layouts from fullscreen to grid, grouping sessions by project with color-coding, enabling instant filtering, supporting any CLI tool, and requiring zero configuration.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  10. TotalTerminal icon
     22 likes

    A system-wide terminal accessible via a hot-key. TotalTerminal is a plugin for Terminal.app. It provides persistent Visor Window which slides down when you press a hot-key. Remember Quake Console?

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  11. Ghostel icon
     2 likes

    Ghostel is a terminal emulator for Emacs powered by libghostty-vt, the VT engine behind the Ghostty terminal.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
    • FreeBSD
    • BSD
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