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 PowerShell.

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  1. 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
     
  2. 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
     
  3. 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
     
  4. 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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. 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
     
  6. 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.

    13 TTwin 4 alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. 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
     
  8. z/Scope icon
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    z/Scope is a multi-protocol, multi-host terminal emulator that provides access to multiple terminal-based applications in a way that is familiar to every user, using a modern tabbed interface.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
     
    • z/Scope is the most popular Web-based alternative to GNOME Terminal.

    • z/Scope is Paid and ProprietaryGNOME Terminal is Free and Open Source
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    minimal terminal emulator for wayland.

    51 havoc alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
     
  10. DumbTerm icon
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    A stupidly simple web-based terminal emulator, with common tools and Starship enabled (via Docker)!

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
    • DumbTerm is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to GNOME Terminal.

    • DumbTerm is Free and Open SourceGNOME Terminal is also Free and Open Source
    • DumbTerm is Privacy focusedGNOME Terminal is not according to our users
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