Cross-platform terminal emulator balancing speed, platform-native UI, and modern features. Designed for an enhanced interactive CLI environment, offering full standards compliance for seamless integration with shells and CLI tools.
United States
iTerm2 Alternatives for Mac
There are many alternatives to iTerm2 for Mac if you are looking for a replacement. The best Mac alternative is Ghostty, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to iTerm2 and many of them are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac alternatives to iTerm2 are Tabby, Hyper, Alacritty and Kitty terminal.
filter to find the best alternatives
iTerm2 alternatives are mainly Terminal Emulators, but if you're looking for Shells or SSH Clients you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Windows, Linux, Mac and iPad. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to iTerm2.
Alternatives list
- 58 Ghostty alternatives
106 Tabby alternativesTabby is an infinitely customizable cross-platform terminal app for local shells, serial, SSH and Telnet connections.
Comments about Tabby as an Alternative to iTerm2
Almost everyone thinks Tabby is a great iTerm2 alternative.
- Tabby is Free and Open Source
96 Hyper alternativesHyper™ 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.
+3
84 Alacritty alternativesAlacritty 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.
Comments about Alacritty as an Alternative to iTerm2
RemovedUserI'm happy because it works on Linux Mint and has more customization and features than the built-in terminal application.
Almost everyone thinks Alacritty is a great iTerm2 alternative.
- Alacritty is Free and Open Source
84 Kitty terminal alternativesKitty ( 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...
26 Warp Terminal alternativesWarp is a blazingly fast, Rust-based terminal that makes you and your team more productive at coding and DevOps.
+9
Comments about Warp Terminal as an Alternative to iTerm2
hitoriIt's modern, fast, easy to config and pretty.
- Warp Terminal is Freemium and Proprietary
100 Terminal alternativesTerminal (also referred to as Terminal.app) is a terminal emulator included in Apple's Mac OS X operating system. It originated in Mac OS X's predecessors, NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP, and allows the user to interact with the computer through a command line interface.
101 WezTerm alternativesA GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust
68 Wave Terminal alternativesWave is an open-source, AI-native terminal built for seamless developer workflows with inline rendering, a modern UI, and persistent sessions.
+3
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.
Ukraine
Canada
China
Germany
EU
Really exactly the iTerm2 but for Windows!