Terminal emulator which mimics the look and feel of the old cathode tube screens, designed for eye-candy with lots of graphic options.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Linux
Italy
EU
Terminal Alternatives
Terminal is described as '(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' and is a popular terminal emulator in the os & utilities category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Terminal for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Android apps. The best Terminal alternative is PuTTY, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Terminal are Ghostty, Tabby, Termux and Windows Terminal.
Alternatives list
- 73 Cool Retro Term alternatives
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
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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113 Blink Shell alternativesBlink 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.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Platforms
- iPhone
- iPad
- United States
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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
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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MATE Terminal is a terminal emulator for the MATE desktop environment. Terminal emulators allow users to execute commands using a real UNIX shell while remaining on their graphical...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
- FreeBSD
- OpenIndiana
- GhostBSD
80 Chrome Secure Shell alternativesSecure 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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Chrome OS
- Google Chrome
- United States
63 PAC Manager alternativesPAC is a Perl/GTK Gnome replacement for SecureCRT/Putty/etc... It provides a GUI to configure SSH/Telnet connections: users, passwords, EXPECT regular expressions, macros, etc.
Platforms
- Linux
Spain- EU
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69 LXTerminal alternativesLXTerminal is the standard terminal emulator of LXDE. The terminal is a desktop-independent VTE-based terminal emulator for LXDE without any unnecessary dependency.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
- Germany
- EU
Rxvt-unicode is a highly customizable terminal emulator forked from rxvt. Commonly known as urxvt, rxvt-unicode can be daemonized to run clients within a single process in order to minimize the use of system resources.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Linux
Hardware-accelerated terminal emulator using WebGPU for smooth high frame rates, customizable GPU usage, asynchronous Rust foundation, efficient redux-based rendering, WebAssembly extensibility for tab systems, and both desktop and browser support.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Flathub
- FreeBSD
- Flatpak
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