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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  1. 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.

    51 SmartPack Kernel Manager alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid
     
  2. Rio Terminal icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • FreeBSD
    • Flatpak
     
  3. 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
     
  4. Muxy icon
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    Muxy is a lightweight, memory-efficient terminal app for macOS, built with SwiftUI and libghostty. It offers a project-based workflow to organize terminals by project with persistent workspace state, vertical tabs with drag-and-drop reordering, pinning, and renaming, as well as...

    51 Muxy alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    minimal terminal emulator for wayland.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
     
  6. devglow icon
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    devglow is a macOS menu bar app that replaces terminal tabs, pm2, and port killer utilities for local development. It lets you register any shell command — whether it's Next.js, Vite, Hugo, Rails, Flask, Cargo, Go, or Docker — and manage everything from a single interface.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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