TotalTerminal Alternatives for Mac

There are many alternatives to TotalTerminal for Mac and since it's discontinued a lot of people are looking for a replacement. 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 10 alternatives to TotalTerminal and 14 are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac alternatives to TotalTerminal are iTerm2, Kitty terminal, Wave Terminal and cmux.

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  1. Ghostty icon
     78 likes

    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.

    67 Ghostty alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Nix Package Manager
    • Homebrew
    • Linux Mobile
     
  2. iTerm2 icon
     176 likes

    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.

    94 iTerm2 alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  3. Kitty terminal icon
     62 likes

    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...

    93 Kitty terminal alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  4. cmux icon
     6 likes

    Native macOS app built on Ghostty. Vertical tabs, notification rings when agents need attention, split panes, and a socket API for automation.

    55 cmux alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  5. WezTerm icon
     23 likes

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

    113 WezTerm alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. ForceTerm icon
     5 likes

    Fully featured terminal based on JediTerm.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Java
     
  7. Automatically tiles and organizes all terminal sessions in one native macOS window, scaling layouts from fullscreen to grid, grouping sessions by project with color-coding, enabling instant filtering, supporting any CLI tool, and requiring zero configuration.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  8. Rio Terminal icon
     1 like

    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.

    51 Rio Terminal alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • FreeBSD
    • Flatpak
     
  9.  Like

    YAET is a terminal emulator built on Xterm.js and Electron. It can interpret escape sequences that allow shell scripts and other programs to write HTML content directly to the terminal, or display content from the web.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • npm
    • Node.JS
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
    • BSD
     
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