GNOME Terminal is not available for Mac but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on macOS with similar functionality. The best Mac alternative is Ghostty, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to GNOME Terminal and many of them are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac alternatives to GNOME Terminal are Tabby, PowerShell, iTerm2 and Kitty terminal.
Cross-platform terminal emulator balancing speed, platform-native UI, and modern features. Designed for an enhanced interactive CLI environment, offering full standards compliance for seamless integration with shells and CLI tools.
Tabby is an infinitely customizable cross-platform terminal app for local shells, serial, SSH and Telnet connections.
PowerShell (including Windows PowerShell and PowerShell Core) is a task automation and configuration management framework from Microsoft, consisting of a command-line shell and associated scripting language built on the .NET Framework.
Terminal emulator for macOS enabling split panes, session restoration, advanced customization, search, SSH, automation features, tmux integration, Unicode, mouse support, notifications, inline images, broadcast input, and profile management.
Kitty ( not to be confused with KiTTY ) is a powerful, cross-platform GPU-based terminal emulator. It offloads rendering to the GPU and uses OpenGL for fast, cross-platform performance with built-in tiling layouts as well as graphic, unicode...
Warp is a blazingly fast, Rust-based terminal that makes you and your team more productive at coding and DevOps.
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.
Alacritty has better performance and customization. However, the feature-set is limited in comparison to GNOME Terminal
Version 0.11.0 has a Windows installer. However, the config file is not installed, it needs to be copied from git. The default color scheme is poor. Generally, it's not ready for beginners yet, but it can be configured properly. It has no tabs, an important feature for me.
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.
Beautiful and powerful. I like configuration with the a file. But sadly, text selection with Shift is not working the way it does in Linux terminals, and there is no option to change it.
A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust
I tried all open-source programs in this list, and WezTerm is my choice. It has multiple tabs. It renders full-screen text interfaces correctly. It implements copy-and-paste in a Linux way and handles Shift properly. The only downside is that the configuration is a lua program, but it's well documented, and the configuration is a one-time effort.
Wave is an open-source, AI-native terminal built for seamless developer workflows with inline rendering, a modern UI, and persistent sessions.
Termora is developed using Kotlin/JVM and partially implements the XTerm protocol (with ongoing improvements). Its ultimate vision is to achieve full platform support (including Android, iOS, and iPadOS) through Kotlin Multiplatform.
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Good alternative in general, but I cannot configure text selection with Shift and mouse. It extends the existing selection instead of just selecting the text.