Konsole Alternatives

Konsole is described as 'Terminal to run a command shell. It provides a command line interface for directly controlling your computer' and is a popular terminal emulator in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Konsole for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Android apps. The best Konsole alternative is Ghostty, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Konsole are Tabby, Termux, Windows Terminal and MobaXterm.

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  1. upterm icon
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    A terminal emulator for the 21st century. (formerly) Black Screen is a terminal emulator and interactive shell with auto-completion.

    88 upterm alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Electron / Atom Shell
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  2. Kuu icon
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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...

    52 Kuu alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
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  3. 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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  4. Cathode icon
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    Cathode is a fully customizable terminal app with a look inspired by classic computers.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
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  5. MacTerm icon
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    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

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    Platforms

    • Mac
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  6. 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
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  7. Ghostel icon
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    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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  8. Muxy icon
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    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
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  9. Lightning fast SSH terminal with remote file access. No other app fuses your SSH servers and iOS devices as well as Secure ShellFish. Tap Get and see for yourself.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Apple Watch
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  10. Secure Shell is an xterm-compatible terminal emulator and stand-alone ssh client for Chrome. It uses Native-Client to connect directly to ssh servers without the need for external proxies.

    80 Chrome Secure Shell alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Chrome OS
    • Google Chrome
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  11. Blink Shell icon
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    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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    • iPhone
    • iPad
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  12.  2 likes

    Based on rxvt. Tabbed interface. Very lightweight. Few dependencies. Only drawback is poor unicode support (theres an SVN branch with working but slightly buggy support)

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
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