A transparent, borderless terminal that lets your desktop show through. Themes restyle its colours and type.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
iTerm Alternatives
iTerm is described as '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' and is a terminal emulator in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to iTerm for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Homebrew apps. The best iTerm alternative is Ghostty, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like iTerm are Tabby, Termux, PowerShell and Windows Terminal.
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- 54 vidrio alternatives
78 Bitvise SSH Client alternativesSSH client for file transfer, terminal and tunneling.
Cost / License
- Free Personal
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Windows
United Kingdom
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Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
- Mac
- Linux
- Java
Germany
EU
93 foot alternativesFast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator. Supports daemon mode, Sixel, and scrollback search.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- Flathub
- Flatpak
48 Windows Command Prompt alternativesCommand Prompt, also known as cmd.exe or cmd (after its executable file name), is the command-line interpreter on Windows NT, Windows CE, OS/2 and eComStation operating systems. It is the counterpart of COMMAND.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Windows
United States
79 Ptyxis alternativesPtyxis is a terminal for GNOME that focuses on ease-of-use in a world of containers.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- Flathub
- GNOME
- Flatpak
- United States
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Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
- Germany
- EU
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
China
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Contour is a modern terminal emulator, for everyday use. It is aiming for power users with a modern feature mindset.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Flathub
- Flatpak
- Germany
- EU
52 Kuu alternativesFast, 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
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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
85 xterm alternativesThe 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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Linux
- BSD
- United States
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