Alacritty Alternatives

Apps similar to Alacritty include Ghostty, which is free and open source. Other options are Tabby, Termux, Windows Terminal and MobaXterm. You're spoiled for choice with Terminal Emulators like Alacritty: we list more than 100 alternatives for Linux, Mac, Windows, Android and iPhone.

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  1. TEXTREME icon
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    TEXTREME is a lively, animated text editor with the feel of a retro videogame complete with sounds and game-like visual effects. The screen shakes as you type while particle effects decorate new characters.

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    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  2. ROXTerm icon
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    ROXTerm: a full-featured VTE terminal emulator.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
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  3. Oxide Terminal is a native macOS and Linux terminal emulator, written entirely in Rust. GPU-rendered on GPUI, with a file-tree drawer you drive like vim and a status bar that knows where your shell is.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Homebrew
    • Linux
    • Arch Linux
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  4. Reach SSH icon
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    A free, open-source SSH client with SFTP, remote desktop, port tunneling and built-in database tools, for Windows, macOS, Linux and Android.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Android
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  5. lvdTerm icon
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    lvdterm is an open-source alternative to tools like mputty, teraterm, ... : one window, tabs and split panes, saved connections organized in folders, and an SFTP file browser docked alongside your shell — built on Qt 6 and a vendored, Windows-ported copy of...

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    • Windows
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  6. 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

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  7. 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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  8. 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)

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
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  9. 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)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Homebrew
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  10. vnm_terminal is a free, open-source terminal emulator for Windows and Linux, with GPU-accelerated rendering and one terminal session per window.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  11. Command Book is a native Swift/Swift UI app to help developers run and manage commands that traditionally have been run in the terminal.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
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    minimal terminal emulator for wayland.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
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