KillerShell puts a file browser, a terminal and a text editor in one window, on one tab strip and one set of keys, so you stop alt-tabbing.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
United States
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Cool Retro Term Alternatives
Cool Retro Term is described as 'Terminal emulator which mimics the look and feel of the old cathode tube screens, designed for eye-candy with lots of graphic options' and is a terminal emulator in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Cool Retro Term for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Cool Retro Term alternative is Ghostty, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Cool Retro Term are Tabby, Termux, Windows Terminal and iTerm2.
Alternatives list
101 MacTerm alternativesMacTerm (was MacTelnet) on OS X is now a complete replacement for Terminal, allowing access to both local and remote applications.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
50 tilda alternativesTilda 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.
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
98 Tilix alternativesTilix is a tiling terminal emulator which uses the VTE GTK+ 3 widget with the following features:
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
Canada
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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...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
+2
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
Australia
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Platforms
- npm
- Node.JS
- Mac
- Linux
- Windows
- BSD
- Global
Y
Ghostel is a terminal emulator for Emacs powered by libghostty-vt, the VT engine behind the Ghostty terminal.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
- Mac
- FreeBSD
- BSD
Germany
EU
Muxy is a lightweight, memory-efficient terminal app for macOS, built with SwiftUI and libghostty. It offers a project-based workflow to organize terminals by project with persistent workspace state, vertical tabs with drag-and-drop reordering, pinning, and renaming, as well as...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Germany
- EU
102 TEXTREME alternativesTEXTREME is a lively, animated text editor with the feel of a retro videogame complete with sounds and game-like visual effects. The screen shakes as you type while particle effects decorate new characters.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
88 upterm alternativesA terminal emulator for the 21st century. (formerly) Black Screen is a terminal emulator and interactive shell with auto-completion.
Platforms
- Mac
- Linux
- Electron / Atom Shell
Ukraine
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A super lightweight, beautiful, and simple terminal. It's designed to be setup with sane defaults and little to no configuration. It's just a terminal, nothing more, nothing less.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- United States
