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. A super lightweight, beautiful, and simple terminal. It's designed to be setup with sane defaults and little to no configuration. It's just a terminal, nothing more, nothing less.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  2. Station is a terminal emulation application that you can use to access a UNIX shell in a graphical environment. Station features different view modes such as split vertically and horizontally, a tabbed interface, and copy and paste commands.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  3. evilvte icon
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    VTE based, highly customizable terminal emulator. Features: tabs, tabbar autohide, right click to switch encoding, supports almost all VTE features, build-time configuration

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  4. RXVT icon
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    RXVT –our extended virtual terminal– is a terminal emulator for X11. It is a popular replacement for the standard ‘xterm’.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. FireCMD icon
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    FireCMD command shell has features like recursive aliases, command substitution using files, HTML and CSS support, which makes it a next generation command shell. It also remembers command history and last working directory for next session.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. terminalpp icon
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    terminalpp (terminal++) is a minimalist but powerful terminal emulator which provides the same features and user experience on both Windows and Linux.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. svte icon
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    svte is a terminal that is flexible and has a small codebase. Its aim is to be lightweight and fast, while providing nice integration with a modern Linux environment. svte is yet another minimal GTK incarnation of VTE. svte is an alternative to Sakura, Lilyterm, etc.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  8. BossTerm icon
     1 like

    Pure Kotlin terminal emulator. Works with SSH and PTY.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Homebrew
     
  9. TTwin 4 icon
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    TTWin - Windows® terminal emulation is Turbosoft's premier terminal emulation solution for Windows platforms. You can download a free TTWin trial version online.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. CLIX icon
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    CLIX ('command line interface for OS X') makes it easy to harness the power of Unix. It becomes both a fish to buy and a series of lessons in how to fish and ultimately a handy way to work.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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