Guake terminal AlternativesTop Terminal Emulators and other similar apps like Guake terminal

Guake terminal is described as '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)' and is a very popular terminal emulator in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Guake terminal for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Guake terminal alternative is Ghostty, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Guake terminal are Tabby, Windows Terminal, ConEmu and MobaXterm.

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  1. Ghostty icon
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    Cross-platform terminal emulator balancing speed, platform-native UI, and modern features. Designed for an enhanced interactive CLI environment, offering full standards compliance for seamless integration with shells and CLI tools.

    60 Ghostty alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Nix Package Manager
    • Homebrew
     
  2. Tabby icon
     120 likes

    Tabby is an infinitely customizable cross-platform terminal app for local shells, serial, SSH and Telnet connections.

    109 Tabby alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. Windows Terminal is a new, modern, feature-rich, productive terminal application for command-line users. It includes many of the features most frequently requested by the Windows command-line community including support for tabs, rich text, globalization, configurability...

    105 Windows Terminal alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. ConEmu icon
     386 likes

    Windows console emulator with tabs, which presents multiple consoles and simple GUI applications as one customizable GUI window with various features.

    63 ConEmu alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    ConEmu vs Guake terminal Comments
    Guest
    Positive
    2

    There's a setting for Quake-style terminal view

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • ConEmu is Free and Open SourceGuake terminal is also Free and Open Source
    • ConEmu is CustomizableGuake terminal is not according to our users
  5. MobaXterm icon
     228 likes

    MobaXterm is an enhanced terminal app that brings the advanced features of a Unix-like command-line to Windows. It takes the power of Cygwin and wraps it in a sleek, visual interface that's super easy to use, lightweight and portable.

    118 MobaXterm alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. Cmder icon
     241 likes

    Cmder is an open-source replacement for the Windows command-line. It relies on ConEmu , extending it with the power of clink and some great looking defaults including a Monokai color scheme and custom prompt...

    41 Cmder alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • clink
    • ConEmu
    • Windows Command Prompt
    • PowerShell
     
  7. iTerm2 icon
     174 likes

    Terminal emulator for macOS enabling split panes, session restoration, advanced customization, search, SSH, automation features, tmux integration, Unicode, mouse support, notifications, inline images, broadcast input, and profile management.

    88 iTerm2 alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    iTerm2 vs Guake terminal Comments
    Guest
    Positive
    0

    For MacOS, it offers drop-down functionality like Guake does for Linux/BSD.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • iTerm2 is Free and Open SourceGuake terminal is also Free and Open Source
    • iTerm2 is Customizable and LightweightGuake terminal is not according to our users
  8. Kitty terminal icon
     59 likes

    Kitty ( not to be confused with KiTTY ) is a powerful, cross-platform GPU-based terminal emulator. It offloads rendering to the GPU and uses OpenGL for fast, cross-platform performance with built-in tiling layouts as well as graphic, unicode...

    88 Kitty terminal alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  9. Yakuake icon
     94 likes

    Yakuake is a drop-down (Quake-style) terminal emulator based on KDE Konsole technology. Its design was inspired from consoles in computer games such as Quake which slide down from the top of the screen when a key is pressed, and slide back up when the key is pressed again.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • KDE
    • Flathub
     
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    Yakuake vs Guake terminal Comments
    Toadtoad
    Positive
    2

    Like Guake, Yakuake is a drop-down terminal emulator. The main difference is that this one is KDE, and Guake is GNOME.

    Bobbee Bumble
    Positive
    1

    Yakuake is KDE desktop's alternative to Guake, wish similar Quake-style dropdown ergonomy.

    • Yakuake is Free and Open SourceGuake terminal is also Free and Open Source
    • Yakuake is LightweightGuake terminal is not according to our users
  10. Terminator icon
     166 likes

    Terminator enables the user to run and manage multiple terminal emulators side-by-side in the same window. The main focus is arranging terminals in a grid. (Tabs is the most common default method, which Terminator also supports.

    90 Terminator alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • GNOME
     
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    Terminator vs Guake terminal Comments
    cryoff
    Positive
    0

    Allows for very easy use of multiple terminals simultaneously. Ultimate for those who urgently works in such environment.

    • Terminator is Free and Open SourceGuake terminal is also Free and Open Source
    • Terminator is LightweightGuake terminal is not according to our users
  11. KiTTY icon
     190 likes

    KiTTY is an opensource terminal emulator, forked from PuTTY , that adds many extra features to the original software.

    100 KiTTY alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  12. GNOME Terminal icon
     161 likes

    GNOME Terminal is a 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.

    73 GNOME Terminal alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • GNOME
     
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