Fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator. Supports daemon mode, Sixel, and scrollback search.
Alacritty Alternatives
Alacritty is described as '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' and is a popular terminal emulator in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Alacritty for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD and Android apps. The best Alacritty alternative is Ghostty, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Alacritty are Tabby, Termux, Windows Terminal and ConEmu.
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- 105 Terminal alternatives
Terminal (also referred to as Terminal.app) is a terminal emulator included in Apple's Mac OS X operating system. It originated in Mac OS X's predecessors, NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP, and allows the user to interact with the computer through a command line interface.

- 23 MinGW alternatives
MinGW ("Minimalistic GNU for Windows") is a port of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) and GNU Binutils. It provides a complete Open Source programming toolset which is suitable for the development of native MS-Windows (x86) applications, which do not depend on any...

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- MinGW is Free and Open Source

- 20 MSYS2 alternatives
MSYS2 is an independent rewrite of MSYS, based on modern Cygwin (POSIX compatibility layer) and MinGW-w64 with the aim of better interoperability with native Windows software.



- 78 Tilix alternatives
Tilix is a tiling terminal emulator which uses the VTE GTK+ 3 widget with the following features:


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- 76 ZOC alternatives
ZOC is a powerful and well-established terminal emulator and telnet client, well known for its outstanding user interface with tabbed multi session support.


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- 57 Xshell alternatives
Xshell is a powerful SSH1, SSH2, SFTP, TELNET, RLOGIN and SERIAL terminal emulator for Windows platforms. It allows users to gain access to Unix/Linux hosts easily and securely on a Windows workstation.

Mintty is a terminal emulator for Cygwin that is based on code from PuTTY 0.60 by Simon Tatham and team.

- 76 iTerm alternatives
iTerm is a full featured terminal emulation program written for OS X using Cocoa. We are aiming at providing users with best command line experience under OS X. The letter i represents a native Apple look and feel of the program interface, and an emphasis on complete...




































MinGW isn't a shell, it is a port of GCC to Windows that uses MinTTY as the default frontend