Contour is a modern terminal emulator, for everyday use. It is aiming for power users with a modern feature mindset.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Flathub
- Flatpak
Germany
EU
Guake terminal Alternatives
One of the most popular alternatives to Guake terminal is Ghostty, which is free and open source. Other popular alternatives are Tabby, Windows Terminal, ConEmu and Cmder. There's no shortage of Terminal Emulators like Guake terminal, with more than 50 alternatives for Linux, Mac, Windows, Android and iPhone.
Alternatives list
Tilda is a Linux terminal taking after the likeness of many classic terminals from first person shooter games, Quake, Doom and Half-Life to name a few, where the terminal has no border and is hidden from the desktop till a key or keys is hit.
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
73 Cool Retro Term alternativesTerminal emulator which mimics the look and feel of the old cathode tube screens, designed for eye-candy with lots of graphic options.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Linux
Italy- EU
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- GNOME
- Linux Mobile
United States
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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
China
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A system-wide terminal accessible via a hot-key. TotalTerminal is a plugin for Terminal.app. It provides persistent Visor Window which slides down when you press a hot-key. Remember Quake Console?
Platforms
- Mac
New Zealand
The all in one terminal client for Android including SSH, Local Shell, Mosh and Telnet support.
Platforms
- Android
- Android Tablet
- mosh
- OpenSSH
United Kingdom
Automatically tiles and organizes all terminal sessions in one native macOS window, scaling layouts from fullscreen to grid, grouping sessions by project with color-coding, enabling instant filtering, supporting any CLI tool, and requiring zero configuration.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
Australia
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
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
France- EU
+3
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- FreeBSD
Russia
Ghostel is a terminal emulator for Emacs powered by libghostty-vt, the VT engine behind the Ghostty terminal.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
- Mac
- FreeBSD
- BSD
- Germany
- EU
