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



There are many alternatives to iTerm for Mac and since it's discontinued a lot of people are looking for a replacement. The best Mac Shell alternative is Tabby, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to iTerm and eight of them are Shells available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac Shell alternatives to iTerm are PowerShell, Hyper, Terminal and xterm.
Tabby is an infinitely customizable cross-platform terminal app for local shells, serial, SSH and Telnet connections.



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.

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.






Terminal (also referred to as Terminal.app) is a terminal emulator included in Apple's Mac OS X operating system. It originated in Mac OS X's predecessors, NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP, and allows the user to interact with the computer through a command line interface.

The xterm program is a terminal emulator for the X Window System. It provides DEC VT102 and Tektronix 4014 compatible terminals for programs that can't use the window system directly.

ZOC is a powerful and well-established terminal emulator and telnet client, well known for its outstanding user interface with tabbed multi session support.




A terminal emulator for the 21st century. (formerly) Black Screen is a terminal emulator and interactive shell with auto-completion.




MacTerm (was MacTelnet) on OS X is now a complete replacement for Terminal, allowing access to both local and remote applications.


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