Cool Retro Term Alternatives for Windows

Cool Retro Term is not available for Windows but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Windows with similar functionality. The best Windows alternative is Tabby Terminal, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Cool Retro Term and 12 are available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Windows alternatives to Cool Retro Term are Windows Terminal, Hyper, Alacritty and WezTerm.

Cool Retro Term alternatives are mainly Terminal Emulators but may also be Shells or SSH Clients. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Cool Retro Term.

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Cool Retro Term

Free • Open Source
Terminal Emulator

Cool Retro Term (CRT) is a terminal emulator which mimics the look and feel of the old cathode tube screens. It has been...

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Tabby Terminal
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Free • Open Source
Terminal Emulator
SSH Client
Mac
Windows
Linux
84 Tabby Terminal alternatives
Tabby is an infinitely customizable cross-platform terminal app for local shells, serial, SSH and Telnet connections.
- - Tabby Terminal is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Cool Retro Term.
- - Tabby Terminal is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Cool Retro Term.
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Tabby Terminal Features
1. Command line interfaceTabby Terminal either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
2. PortableTabby Terminal can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
3. LightweightTabby Terminal consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
4. Support for scriptingTabby Terminal supports scripts and macros to automate or customize tasks.
SSH
Support for SFTP
Multiple Servers
Electron based
Customizable
Serial-port
Comments about Tabby Terminal as a Alternative to Cool Retro Term
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Hragos
Tabby Terminal is not good alternative for Cool Retro Term, because Tabby Terminal is just open-source terminal emulator, while Cool Retro Term is terminal emulator which mimics old CRT screens.
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Windows Terminal
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Free • Open Source
Terminal Emulator
Windows
88 Windows Terminal alternatives
Windows Terminal is a new, modern, feature-rich, productive terminal application for command-line users. It includes many of the features most frequently requested by the Windows command-line community including support for tabs, rich text, globalization, configurability...
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Windows Terminal Features
1. Command line interfaceWindows Terminal either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
2. Support for scriptingWindows Terminal supports scripts and macros to automate or customize tasks.
3. Support for ThemesYou can use themes and templates to change the look and feel of Windows Terminal.
Tabbed interface
Multiple shells
WSL integreation
Background transparency
Configured in JSON
Customizable
Support for Keyboard Shortcuts
Emoji Text support
Multiple window layouts
Multi-tabs
Hyper
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Free • Open Source
Terminal Emulator
Shell
Mac
Windows
Linux
Electron / Atom Shell
81 Hyper alternatives
Hyper™ is a beautiful and extensible, cross-platform terminal built on open web standards. It provides an elegant command-line experience that is consistent across all supported platforms which includes macOS, Windows and various Linux distributions like Fedora and Debian.
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Hyper Features
1. Extensible by Plugins/ExtensionsHyper can be extended with add-ons, plugins and extensions.
2. Command line interfaceHyper either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
3. Support for ThemesYou can use themes and templates to change the look and feel of Hyper.
Split-screen view
Clean design
Electron based
Tiling Panes
Uses Packages
Divisible
Skinnable
Customizable
Multiple Font Colors
Plugin API
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David
Hyper is one of the few terminals that can somewhat mimic CRT's style, using custom CSS tweaks. CRT is easier to customize though.
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Alacritty
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Free • Open Source
Terminal Emulator
Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
70 Alacritty alternatives
Alacritty is a 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.
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Alacritty Features
1. LightweightAlacritty consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
2. PortableAlacritty can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
3. Command line interfaceAlacritty either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
GPU Support
Optimal performance
No input delay
WezTerm
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Free • Open Source
Terminal Emulator
Mac
Windows
Linux
82 WezTerm alternatives
A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust
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WezTerm Features
1. Support for ThemesYou can use themes and templates to change the look and feel of WezTerm.
2. Support for scriptingWezTerm supports scripts and macros to automate or customize tasks.
GPU Acceleration
Hyperlinks
WSL integreation
Split tabs
Configurable
Lua scripting
Multi panel
Fluent Terminal
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Free • Open Source
Terminal Emulator
Windows
77 Fluent Terminal alternatives
Terminal emulator based on UWP and web technologies.
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Fluent Terminal Features
1. Command line interfaceFluent Terminal either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
2. LightweightFluent Terminal consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
Tabbed interface
Customizable
Support for Keyboard Shortcuts
Multiple shells
TEXTREME
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Free • Open Source
Text Editor
Mac
Windows
Linux
99 TEXTREME alternatives
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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TEXTREME Features
Text editing
Extraterm
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Free • Open Source
Terminal Emulator
Mac
Windows
Linux
Cygwin
36 Extraterm alternatives
Extraterm is more than just a traditional terminal emulator. It provides a toolbox for working with your terminal and command line applications, allowing you to capture and reuse previous command output across your terminal sessions, preview images and rich media directly, and...
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Extraterm Features
Tabbed interface
Split tabs
Electerm
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Free • Open Source
Terminal Emulator
File Manager
Mac
Windows
Linux
Electron / Atom Shell
57 Electerm alternatives
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.
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Electerm Features
Built-in SSH client
Tabbed interface
SSH
Support for SFTP
Support for FTP
Dual Pane Support
terminalpp
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Free • Open Source
Terminal Emulator
Mac
Windows
Linux
23 terminalpp alternatives
terminalpp (terminal++) is a minimalist but powerful terminal emulator which provides the same features and user experience on both Windows and Linux.
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terminalpp Features
1. Lightweightterminalpp consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
RXVT
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Free • Open Source
Terminal Emulator
Windows
Linux
90 RXVT alternatives
RXVT –our extended virtual terminal– is a terminal emulator for X11. It is a popular replacement for the standard ‘xterm’.
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Discontinued
Last updated in 2013.
Qonsole
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Free • Open Source
Terminal Emulator
Windows
19 Qonsole alternatives
"A Quake-like Console Emulator." Proudly under the MIT License.
Qonsole has no features, suggest some!