Tess Alternatives

Tess is described as 'Terminal emulator. It lets you have a full access to your computer, use command line based programs and many more' and is a terminal emulator in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Tess for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Tess alternative is Ghostty, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Tess are Tabby, Termux, Windows Terminal and MobaXterm.

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    minimal terminal emulator for wayland.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
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  2. Ratty icon
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    A GPU-rendered terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics. Inspired by TempleOS. Built with Rust & Ratatui.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Rust
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  3. Yorishiro icon
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    Yorishiro is a new kind of terminal that gives your AI a body — and a sense of presence.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Homebrew
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  4. cterm icon
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    cterm is a tiny terminal emulator I built from frustrations of not being able to use st across different platforms. Much like st, it is very, very small--even smaller than st. For this reason, however, cterm does not have the "standard" terminal emulator features such...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (ISC)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
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  5. A modern MobaXterm/PuTTY alternative for Windows: tabbed SSH + VNC, a full SFTP file manager, and Ctrl+V to paste images straight into a remote terminal over SFTP.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  6. DumbTerm icon
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    A stupidly simple web-based terminal emulator, with common tools and Starship enabled (via Docker)!

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
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