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. The letter i represents a native Apple look and feel of the program interface, and an emphasis on complete' and is a terminal emulator in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to iTerm for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD and Android apps. The best iTerm alternative is Ghostty, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like iTerm are Tabby, Termux, PowerShell and Windows Terminal.

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  1. CLIX icon

    CLIX

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    CLIX ('command line interface for OS X') makes it easy to harness the power of Unix. It becomes both a fish to buy and a series of lessons in how to fish and ultimately a handy way to work.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  2. Cathode icon

    Cathode

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    Cathode is a fully customizable terminal app with a look inspired by classic computers.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
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  4. M

    mrxvt

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    Based on rxvt. Tabbed interface. Very lightweight. Few dependencies. Only drawback is poor unicode support (theres an SVN branch with working but slightly buggy support)

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  5. Electerm icon

    Electerm

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    electerm is a terminal/ssh/sftp client(linux, mac, win) based on electron/node-pty/xterm/antd and many other libs, it works like a combination of guake and xshell.

    68 Electerm alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Electron
    • Homebrew
    • AppImage
    • npm
    • JavaScript
    • Fedora
    Electerm screenshot 1
     
  6. Another Term icon

    Another Term

     2 likes

    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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  7. xCute icon

    xCute

     3 likes

    Sending commands to a server can be as simple as sending a text message to a friend.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
    xCute screenshot 1
     
  9. csshX icon

    csshX

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    csshX is a tool to allow simultaneous control of multiple SSH sessions. It will attempt to create an SSH session to each remote host in separate Terminal.app windows. A master window will also be created. All keyboard input in the master will be sent to all the slave windows.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    12 ssh sessions under the control of one master window
     
  10. R

    RapidSSH

     1 like

    Rapid SSH is the powerful and complete IP terminal emulator for iPad and iPhone - supports SSHv1, v2, SSH Agent, Telnet, Raw, fully scriptable, Dropbox.com, multi-session and much more!

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
    Full SSH terminal window
     
  11. Beam Terminal icon

    Beam Terminal

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    Beam is a terminal organizer for macOS that helps developers manage multiple terminal sessions across different projects.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    Beam Terminal screenshot 1
     
  12. DumbTerm icon

    DumbTerm

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    A stupidly simple web-based terminal emulator, with common tools and Starship enabled (via Docker)!

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
    DumbTerm screenshot 1
     
  13. Y

    YAET

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    YAET is a terminal emulator built on Xterm.js and Electron. It can interpret escape sequences that allow shell scripts and other programs to write HTML content directly to the terminal, or display content from the web.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • npm
    • Node.JS
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
    • BSD
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  14. BLAKFRAME icon

    BLAKFRAME

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    BLAKFRAME is a sovereign systems engineering firm specializing in low-level architecture and memory-safe infrastructure. The organization develops a unified architecture for deterministic data distribution across international jurisdictions under a strict technical covenant.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
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