Cool Retro Term Alternatives

Cool Retro Term is described as 'Terminal emulator which mimics the look and feel of the old cathode tube screens, designed for eye-candy with lots of graphic options' and is a terminal emulator in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Cool Retro Term for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Cool Retro Term alternative is Ghostty, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Cool Retro Term are Tabby, Termux, Windows Terminal and iTerm2.

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    Station is a terminal emulation application that you can use to access a UNIX shell in a graphical environment. Station features different view modes such as split vertically and horizontally, a tabbed interface, and copy and paste commands.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    Stjerm is a roll-down, quake-like terminal emulator. It's window is shown with a key shortcut. Stjerm is very minimalistic and works well with Compiz window manager.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    electerm is a terminal/ssh/sftp client(linux, mac, win) based on electron/node-pty/xterm/antd and many other libs, it works like a combination of guake and xshell.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Electron / Atom Shell
     
  4. Qonsole icon
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    "A Quake-like Console Emulator." Proudly under the MIT License.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    YeahConsole turns an xterm into a gamelike console. This means it will slide down from top of your screen if you hit a shortcut key. (You will need xterm version 168 or higher to make this happen).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  6. MATE Terminal icon
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    MATE Terminal is a terminal emulator for the MATE desktop environment. Terminal emulators allow users to execute commands using a real UNIX shell while remaining on their graphical...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenIndiana
    • GhostBSD
     
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    A stupidly simple web-based terminal emulator, with common tools and Starship enabled (via Docker)!

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
    • DumbTerm is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Cool Retro Term.

    • DumbTerm is Free and Open SourceCool Retro Term is also Free and Open Source
    • DumbTerm is Privacy focusedCool Retro Term is not according to our users
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    Terra is a GTK+3.0 based terminal emulator with useful user interface, it also supports multiple terminals with splitting screen horizontally or vertically.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    SmartPack-Kernel Manager is a heavily modified version of Kernel Adiutor developed by Willi Ye. All the credits go to the original developer, not only for his hard work on Kernel Adiutor, but also for being open to open-source community.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid
     
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    minimal terminal emulator for wayland.

    51 havoc alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
     
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