Herdr AlternativesTerminal Emulators and other similar apps like Herdr

Herdr is described as 'Manage multiple developer agents in real terminals, detach and reattach sessions anywhere, track agent status instantly, and control panes via keyboard or mouse' and is a terminal emulator in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Herdr for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, Homebrew and Web-based apps. The best Herdr alternative is tmux, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Herdr are Warp Terminal, WezTerm, cmux and uniTerm.

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  1. tmux icon
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    tmux is a terminal multiplexer: it enables a number of terminals (or windows), each running a separate program, to be created, accessed, and controlled from a single screen. tmux may be detached from a screen and continue running in the background, then later reattached.

    19 tmux alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Cygwin
     
  2. WezTerm icon
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    A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust

    126 WezTerm alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. cmux icon
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    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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    • Mac
     
  4. uniTerm icon
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    Lightweight all-in-one terminal with over 20 protocols including SSH, RDP, SFTP, and databases, featuring an autonomous AI agent for multi-round shell commands, advanced file transfer, real-time server monitoring, split panes, cloud sync, and multilingual support.

    20 uniTerm alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. GNU Screen icon
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    Offers full-screen terminal multiplexing with independent windows, VT100 emulation, scrollback, and copy-paste. Supports ANSI standards, detaching, and persistent background process execution for shells or commands across Unix-like systems.

    16 GNU Screen alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  6. RMUX icon
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    Universal Rust multiplexer for the agentic era: detachable, scriptable, and inspectable, with a tmux-compatible CLI, daemon-backed SDK, and native Ratatui integration.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Rust
     
  7. 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

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    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  8. Hydra is an open-source (Apache 2.0) desktop terminal built for AI coding agents. It finds the agent sessions already on your machine - Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, Cursor and more - and shows them all on one dashboard, with a full lifecycle: rename, hide, stash, revive.

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  9. Zellij icon
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    Zellij is a workspace aimed at developers, ops-oriented people and anyone who loves the terminal. Similar programs are sometimes called "Terminal Multiplexers".

    14 Zellij alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
     
  10. byobu icon
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    Byobu is a GPLv3 open source text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer. It was originally designed to provide elegant enhancements to the otherwise functional, plain, practical GNU Screen , for the Ubuntu server distribution.

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