Fluent Terminal Alternatives

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

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  1. Otty icon
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    Native GPU-accelerated terminal with keyboard-first design, agent compatibility, Unicode, ligatures, inline images, true color, tabs, panes, splits, session recovery, rich color schemes, real-time notifications, fuzzy search, custom layouts, and quick navigation.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  2. iTerm icon
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    iTerm is a full featured terminal emulation program written for OS X using Cocoa. We are aiming at providing users with best command line experience under OS X. The letter i represents a native Apple look and feel of the program interface, and an emphasis on complete...

    96 iTerm alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  3. Git Bash icon
     19 likes

    Git for Windows provides a BASH emulation used to run Git from the command line. *NIX users should feel right at home, as the BASH emulation behaves just like the "git" command in LINUX and UNIX environments.

    10 Git Bash alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  4. Console icon
     96 likes

    Console is a Windows console window enhancement. Console features include: multiple tabs, text editor-like text selection, different background types, alpha and color-key transparency, configurable font, different window styles.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
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  5. KillerShell icon
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    KillerShell puts a file browser, a terminal and a text editor in one window, on one tab strip and one set of keys, so you stop alt-tabbing.

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    • Windows
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  6. xterm icon
     30 likes

    The xterm program is a terminal emulator for the X Window System. It provides DEC VT102 and Tektronix 4014 compatible terminals for programs that can't use the window system directly.

    86 xterm alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  7. Automatically tiles and organizes all terminal sessions in one native macOS window, scaling layouts from fullscreen to grid, grouping sessions by project with color-coding, enabling instant filtering, supporting any CLI tool, and requiring zero configuration.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  8. mintty icon
     40 likes

    Mintty is a terminal emulator for Cygwin that is based on code from PuTTY 0.60 by Simon Tatham and team.

    54 mintty alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  9. Xfce4-Terminal icon
     38 likes

    Xfce Terminal is a lightweight and easy to use terminal emulator application with many advanced features including drop down, tabs, unlimited scrolling, full colors, fonts, transparent backgrounds, and more.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Xfce
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  10. GNOME Console icon
     6 likes

    A simple user-friendly terminal emulator for the GNOME desktop.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • GNOME
    • Linux Mobile
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  11. Ghostel icon
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    Ghostel is a terminal emulator for Emacs powered by libghostty-vt, the VT engine behind the Ghostty terminal.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
    • FreeBSD
    • BSD
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