Windows Terminal Alternatives

Windows Terminal is described as 'New, modern, feature-rich, productive terminal application for command-line users. It includes many of the features most frequently requested by the Windows command-line community including support for tabs, rich text, globalization, configurability' and is a popular terminal emulator in the os & utilities category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Windows Terminal for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Android apps. The best Windows Terminal alternative is Ghostty, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Windows Terminal are Tabby, Termux, MobaXterm and Cmder.

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  1. 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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  2. Deepin Terminal is a terminal manager developed by deepin team that can freely split window according to users requirements with horizontal and vertical screen split supported. It allows users to do terminal settings of fonts and colors changing, background pictures...

    57 Deepin Terminal alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE
    • Deepin
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  3. PAC Manager icon
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    PAC 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.

    63 PAC Manager alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  4. Harness the native Linux command-line potential of Android with this Terminal. BTEP is an advanced Terminal Emulator and SSH client for your phone or tablet. Unleash the command line potential of the Android console with this terminal. Best if rooted, but root not required. Run n.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Android
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  5. Poderosa icon
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    Poderosa is a tabbed terminal emulator for Windows.

    Against common terminal emulators such as Putty or TeraTerm, Poderosa has following features.

    Tabbed style GUI It is convenient to open multiple connections at the same time. Moreover, you can split the window into panes a.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  6. Putty for Mac icon
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    Putty is one of the Best Terminal Emulators available today. It Supports different types of Network Protocols such as SSH, FTP, SCP, Telnet etc. In Windows it is used as SSH Client to connect to Your Linux server or for some other purpose.

    84 Putty for Mac alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  7. WSL UI icon
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    WSL UI is a lightweight desktop app for managing Windows Subsystem for Linux distributions through a modern graphical interface, replacing complex command-line administration.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • GB flagUnited Kingdom
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  8. superconsole icon
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    SuperConsole is a software collection based on ConEmu, MSYS2, Mintty, Zsh, Git for Windows, grml-zsh-config, Antigen and agkozak-zsh-theme projects, customized and configured for everyday use.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  9. 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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  10. Core Shell icon
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    Core Shell is a full-featured terminal with built-in OpenSSH support, focused on managing and login to hosts efficiently.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  11. FireCMD icon
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    FireCMD command shell has features like recursive aliases, command substitution using files, HTML and CSS support, which makes it a next generation command shell. It also remembers command history and last working directory for next session.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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