GNOME Terminal Alternatives

GNOME Terminal is described as 'Terminal emulator for the GNOME desktop environment written by Havoc Pennington and others. Terminal emulators allow users to execute commands using a real UNIX shell while remaining on their graphical desktop' and is a very popular terminal emulator in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to GNOME Terminal for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Android apps. The best GNOME Terminal alternative is Ghostty, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like GNOME Terminal are Tabby, Termux, Windows Terminal and MobaXterm.

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  1. Alacritty icon

    Alacritty

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    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.

    102 Alacritty alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Linux Mobile
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    Alacritty vs GNOME Terminal Comments
    Barrett
    Positive
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    Alacritty has better performance and customization. However, the feature-set is limited in comparison to GNOME Terminal

    PavelR
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    Version 0.11.0 has a Windows installer. However, the config file is not installed, it needs to be copied from git. The default color scheme is poor. Generally, it's not ready for beginners yet, but it can be configured properly. It has no tabs, an important feature for me.

    • Alacritty is Free and Open SourceGNOME Terminal is also Free and Open Source
  2. ReTerminal icon

    ReTerminal

     20 likes

    ReTerminal is a sleek, Material 3-inspired terminal emulator designed as a modern alternative to the legacy Jackpal Terminal. Built on Termux's robust TerminalView.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • F-Droid
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  4. Tess icon

    Tess

     17 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  5. Hyper icon

    Hyper

     85 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.

    113 Hyper alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Electron / Atom Shell
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    Hyper vs GNOME Terminal Comments
    PavelR
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    Beautiful and powerful. I like configuration with the a file. But sadly, text selection with Shift is not working the way it does in Linux terminals, and there is no option to change it.

    • Hyper is Free and Open SourceGNOME Terminal is also Free and Open Source
    • Hyper is CustomizableGNOME Terminal is not according to our users
  7. WezTerm icon

    WezTerm

     24 likes

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

    126 WezTerm alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    WezTerm vs GNOME Terminal Comments
    PavelR
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    I tried all open-source programs in this list, and WezTerm is my choice. It has multiple tabs. It renders full-screen text interfaces correctly. It implements copy-and-paste in a Linux way and handles Shift properly. The only downside is that the configuration is a lua program, but it's well documented, and the configuration is a one-time effort.

    • WezTerm is Free and Open SourceGNOME Terminal is also Free and Open Source
  9. ConnectBot icon

    ConnectBot

     103 likes

    ConnectBot is a Secure Shell client for the Android platform. Its ultimate goal is to create a secure connection through which you can use a shell on a remote machine and transfer files back and forth to your phone.

    57 ConnectBot alternatives

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    • Android
    • F-Droid
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  11. foot icon

    foot

     11 likes

    Fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator. Supports daemon mode, Sixel, and scrollback search.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  12. Termora icon

    Termora

     11 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.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Homebrew
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  13. Terminal icon

    Terminal

     86 likes

    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.

    123 Terminal alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  14. cmux icon

    cmux

     7 likes

    Native macOS app built on Ghostty. Vertical tabs, notification rings when agents need attention, split panes, and a socket API for automation.

    64 cmux alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
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