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, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Cool Retro Term and many of them are available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Windows alternatives to Cool Retro Term are Windows Terminal, Alacritty, Warp Terminal and Tess.

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  1. Tabby icon
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    Tabby is an infinitely customizable cross-platform terminal app for local shells, serial, SSH and Telnet connections.

    108 Tabby alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Tabby vs Cool Retro Term Comments
    Hragos
    Negative
    0

    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.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Tabby is Free and Open SourceCool Retro Term is also Free and Open Source
    • Tabby is Customizable and LightweightCool Retro Term is not according to our users
  2. 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...

    105 Windows Terminal alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. Alacritty icon
     70 likes

    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.

    87 Alacritty alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  4. Tess icon
     16 likes

    Tess is a terminal emulator. It lets you have a full access to your computer, use command line based programs and many more.

    63 Tess alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. Hyper icon
     83 likes

    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.

    98 Hyper alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Electron / Atom Shell
     
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    Hyper vs Cool Retro Term Comments
    David
    Positive
    1

    Hyper is one of the few terminals that can somewhat mimic CRT's style, using custom CSS tweaks. CRT is easier to customize though.

    • Hyper is Free and Open SourceCool Retro Term is also Free and Open Source
    • Hyper is CustomizableCool Retro Term is not according to our users
  6. WezTerm icon
     21 likes

    A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust

    104 WezTerm alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. Termora icon
     8 likes

    Termora is developed using Kotlin/JVM and partially implements the XTerm protocol (with ongoing improvements). Its ultimate vision is to achieve full platform support (including Android, iOS, and iPadOS) through Kotlin Multiplatform.

    58 Termora alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Homebrew
     
  8. ForceTerm icon
     5 likes

    Fully featured terminal based on JediTerm.

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    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Java
     
  9. Extraterm icon
     8 likes

    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Cygwin
    • AppImage
    • Typescript
     
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