GNOME Console Alternatives

Apps similar to GNOME Console include Ghostty, which is free and open source. Other options are Tabby, Termux, PowerShell and Windows Terminal. Terminal Emulators like GNOME Console are a crowded field, with more than 50 alternatives for Linux, Mac, Windows, Android and iPhone.

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  1. Terminal icon
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    Terminal (also referred to as Terminal.app) is a terminal emulator included in Apple's Mac OS X operating system. It originated in Mac OS X's predecessors, NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP, and allows the user to interact with the computer through a command line interface.

    129 Terminal alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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  2. ForceTerm icon
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    Fully featured terminal based on JediTerm.

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    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Java
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  3. Kuu icon
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    Fast, polished native macOS terminal. Real login shells on a Metal surface (SwiftUI + libghostty), with native windows and tabs, per-tab zoom, find in scrollback, and a color theme catalog. Secure by default: signed and notarized builds, auto-updates via Sparkle, no account, no...

    53 Kuu alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
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  4. Ptyxis icon
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    Ptyxis is a terminal for GNOME that focuses on ease-of-use in a world of containers.

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
    • Flatpak
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  5. foot icon
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    Fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator. Supports daemon mode, Sixel, and scrollback search.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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  6. Guake terminal icon
     132 likes

    Guake is a top-down terminal for Gnome (in the style of Yakuake for KDE, Tilda or the terminal used in Quake). Guake is already package by a number of distribution (among them are Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu or ArchLinux).

    58 Guake terminal alternatives

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    • Linux
    • BSD
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  7. 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

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  8. Otty icon
     2 likes

    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.

    57 Otty alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
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  9. 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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