Ghostel Alternatives

Ghostel is described as 'Terminal emulator for Emacs powered by libghostty-vt, the VT engine behind the Ghostty terminal' and is a terminal emulator in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Ghostel for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Ghostel alternative is Ghostty, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Ghostel are Tabby, Termux, Windows Terminal and MobaXterm.

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Ghostel alternatives page was last updated Jul 15, 2026

Contour Terminal Emulator
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Contour is a modern terminal emulator, for everyday use. It is aiming for power users with a modern feature mindset.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Application type
Terminal Emulator
Origin
Germany
EU
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
Flathub
Flatpak
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SecurSSH
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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.
35 SecurSSH alternatives
Cost / License
Freemium
Proprietary
Application types
Terminal Emulator
SSH Client
Origin
France
EU
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
+3
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Electerm
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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.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (MIT)
Application types
Terminal Emulator
File Manager
Origin
China
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
Electron
Homebrew
AppImage
npm
JavaScript
Fedora
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