Hyper Alternatives

One of the most popular alternatives to Hyper is Ghostty, which is free and open source. Other popular alternatives are Tabby, Termux, Windows Terminal and PowerShell. There's no shortage of Terminal Emulators like Hyper, with more than 100 alternatives for Linux, Mac, Windows, iPhone and Android.

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  1. Another Term icon
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    SSH / Telnet / UART dongles (USB and Bluetooth) / own PTY client for Android.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
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  2.  7 likes

    Looking for a tabbed version of famous PuTTY? PuTTY Connection Manager is a free PuTTY Client Add-on for Windows platforms which goal is to provide a solution for managing multiple PuTTY instances. This is one of the most important missing feature of PuTTY (referring to this and.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PuTTY
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  3. TTYEmulator is a free terminal emulator application which can act as a client for the SSH, Telnet, rlogin, raw TCP and serial computing protocols. TTYEmulator is written for Microsoft Windows.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  4. Rumus icon
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    An AI-native terminal for developers. Manage servers, automate commands, and run agentic tasks — all in one beautifully designed, cross-platform workspace.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  5. mTerm icon
     1 like

    A native macOS terminal emulator. Opinionated, GPU-accelerated, focused.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  6. Voktty icon
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    Voktty is an open-source, ultra-lightweight (~8MB) terminal-first developer workspace and AI-native environment built with Tauri 2, Rust, React 19, and xterm.js WebGL. Designed as a fast, resource-friendly alternative to heavy Electron IDEs and proprietary AI terminals, Voktty...

    44 Voktty alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Arch Linux
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  7. Terra is a GTK+3.0 based terminal emulator with useful user interface, it also supports multiple terminals with splitting screen horizontally or vertically.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  8. Termio icon
     1 like

    Modern terminal and SSH manager with AI, workspaces, and full privacy.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
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  9. devglow icon
     1 like

    devglow is a macOS menu bar app that replaces terminal tabs, pm2, and port killer utilities for local development. It lets you register any shell command — whether it's Next.js, Vite, Hugo, Rails, Flask, Cargo, Go, or Docker — and manage everything from a single interface.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  10. Create GUIs for command line commands. Then drag files in to get their paths. And click buttons to choose switches.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  11. LilyTerm icon
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    LilyTerm: light, but functional terminal emulator LilyTerm is a terminal emulator based off of libvte that aims to be fast and lightweight, Licensed under GPLv3.

    Features:

    1. Low resource-consumption -- No additional library required -- Supports "Single Instance Application.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
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