Tabby Alternatives

Tabby is described as 'Infinitely customizable cross-platform terminal app for local shells, serial, SSH and Telnet connections' and is a very popular terminal emulator in the os & utilities category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Tabby for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Android apps. The best Tabby alternative is PuTTY, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Tabby are Ghostty, Termux, Windows Terminal and PowerShell.

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  2. Alacritty icon

    Alacritty

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    Alacritty 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.

    107 Alacritty alternatives

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    • BSD
    • Linux Mobile
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  4. ReTerminal icon

    ReTerminal

     21 likes

    ReTerminal is a sleek, Material 3-inspired terminal emulator designed as a modern alternative to the legacy Jackpal Terminal. Built on Termux's robust TerminalView.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • F-Droid
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  5. Tess icon

    Tess

     17 likes

    Tess is a terminal emulator. It lets you have a full access to your computer, use command line based programs and many more.

    80 Tess alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Windows
    • Linux
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    • European Union flagEU
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  6. Terminator icon

    Terminator

     164 likes

    Terminator enables the user to run and manage multiple terminal emulators side-by-side in the same window. The main focus is arranging terminals in a grid. (Tabs is the most common default method, which Terminator also supports.

    117 Terminator alternatives

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    • Linux
    • BSD
    • GNOME
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    Terminator is running Vim, Bash, and Python side by side.
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  8. KiTTY icon

    KiTTY

     190 likes

    KiTTY is an opensource terminal emulator, forked from PuTTY , that adds many extra features to the original software.

    126 KiTTY alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
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    • European Union flagEU
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  10. Hyper icon

    Hyper

     85 likes

    Hyper™ 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.

    119 Hyper alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Electron / Atom Shell
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    Splitting terminals
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  11. GNOME Terminal icon

    GNOME Terminal

     164 likes

    GNOME Terminal is a terminal emulator for the GNOME desktop environment written by Havoc Pennington and others. Terminal emulators allow users to execute commands using a real UNIX shell while remaining on their graphical desktop.

    89 GNOME Terminal alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • BSD
    • GNOME
    • US flagUnited States
    GNOME Terminal screenshot 1
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  12. uniTerm icon

    uniTerm

     5 likes

    Lightweight all-in-one terminal with over 20 protocols including SSH, RDP, SFTP, and databases, featuring an autonomous AI agent for multi-round shell commands, advanced file transfer, real-time server monitoring, split panes, cloud sync, and multilingual support.

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    Start Tab — Connection cards for quick access
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  13. WezTerm icon

    WezTerm

     24 likes

    A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust

    131 WezTerm alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • US flagUnited States
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  14. WindTerm icon

    WindTerm

     22 likes

    A professional SSH/Telnet/Serial/Shell/Sftp client for DevOps.

    101 WindTerm alternatives

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    • CN flagChina
    WindTerm screenshot 1
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