foot Alternatives

foot is described as 'Fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator. Supports daemon mode, Sixel, and scrollback search' and is a terminal emulator in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to foot for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Android apps. The best foot alternative is Ghostty, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like foot are Tabby, Termux, Windows Terminal and MobaXterm.

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  1. Black Box icon
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    Black Box is a native terminal emulator that offers superb theming options.

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  2. ZOC icon
     70 likes

    ZOC is a powerful and well-established terminal emulator and telnet client, well known for its outstanding user interface with tabbed multi session support.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  3. Tilix icon
     32 likes

    Tilix is a tiling terminal emulator which uses the VTE GTK+ 3 widget with the following features:

    94 Tilix alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  4. ConsoleZ icon
     27 likes

    console - This is a modified version of Console 2 for a better experience under Windows Vista/7/8 and a better visual rendering.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. Rumus icon
     2 likes

    An AI-native terminal for developers. Manage servers, automate commands, and run agentic tasks — all in one beautifully designed, cross-platform workspace.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  6. SecurSSH icon
     1 like

    SecurSSH centralizes SSH credentials, keys, and server access in a zero-knowledge encrypted vault with granular team permissions, live session sharing, and a built-in SFTP manager.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. Ghostel icon
     1 like

    Ghostel is a terminal emulator for Emacs powered by libghostty-vt, the VT engine behind the Ghostty terminal.

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
    • FreeBSD
    • BSD
     
  8. Muxy icon
     1 like

    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...

    54 Muxy alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  9. devglow icon
     1 like

    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
     
  10. upterm icon
     22 likes

    A terminal emulator for the 21st century. (formerly) Black Screen is a terminal emulator and interactive shell with auto-completion.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Electron / Atom Shell
     
  11. rxvt-unicode icon
     29 likes

    Rxvt-unicode is a highly customizable terminal emulator forked from rxvt. Commonly known as urxvt, rxvt-unicode can be daemonized to run clients within a single process in order to minimize the use of system resources.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  12. BossTerm icon
     1 like

    Pure Kotlin terminal emulator. Works with SSH and PTY.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Homebrew
     
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