iTerm Alternatives

    iTerm is described as 'full featured terminal emulation program written for OS X using Cocoa. We are aiming at providing users with best command line experience under OS X' and is an app in the OS & Utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to iTerm for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD and iPad. The best alternative is ConEmu, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like iTerm are PowerShell (Free, Open Source), Hyper (Free, Open Source), MobaXterm (Freemium) and Terminator (Free, Open Source).

    This page was last updated Jun 4, 2021
    1. Windows console emulator with tabs, which presents multiple consoles and simple GUI applications as one customizable GUI window with various features. Initially, the program was created as a companion to Far Manager .
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      Most users think ConEmu is a great alternative to iTerm.
    2. PowerShell (including Windows PowerShell and PowerShell Core) is a task automation and configuration management framework from Microsoft, consisting of a command-line shell and associated scripting language built on the .NET Framework.
      Some users think PowerShell is a great alternative to iTerm, some don't.
    4. Hyper™ is a beautiful and extensible, cross-platform terminal built on open web standards. It provides an elegant command-line experience that is consistent across all supported platforms which includes macOS, Windows and various Linux distributions like Fedora and Debian.
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      Almost everyone thinks Hyper is a great alternative to iTerm.
      Its in Js/html/Css -> easy to make plugins
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    5. 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.
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    6. 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.
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    8. iTerm2 is a replacement for Terminal and the successor to iTerm. It works on Macs with macOS 10.10 or newer. iTerm2 brings the terminal into the modern age with features you never knew you always wanted.
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      Almost everyone thinks iTerm2 is a great alternative to iTerm.
    9. KiTTY is an opensource terminal emulator, forked from PuTTY , that adds many extra features to the original software.
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    10. Alacritty is a blazing fast, GPU accelerated terminal emulator. It’s written in Rust and uses OpenGL for rendering to be the fastest terminal emulator available. Alacritty is available on GitHub in source form.
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    11. 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.[
    12. Windows Terminal is a new, modern, feature-rich, productive terminal application for command-line users.
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