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



iTerm is not available for Windows but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Windows with similar functionality. The best Windows 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 many of them are available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Windows alternatives to iTerm are PowerShell, Windows Terminal, ConEmu and MobaXterm.
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.

Windows Terminal is a new, modern, feature-rich, productive terminal application for command-line users. It includes many of the features most frequently requested by the Windows command-line community including support for tabs, rich text, globalization, configurability...




Windows console emulator with tabs, which presents multiple consoles and simple GUI applications as one customizable GUI window with various features.




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.




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.


KiTTY is an opensource terminal emulator, forked from PuTTY , that adds many extra features to the original software.


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.






Tess is a terminal emulator. It lets you have a full access to your computer, use command line based programs and many more.




A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust



Termora is developed using Kotlin/JVM and partially implements the XTerm protocol (with ongoing improvements). Its ultimate vision is to achieve full platform support (including Android, iOS, and iPadOS) through Kotlin Multiplatform.

Wave is an open-source, AI-native terminal built for seamless developer workflows with inline rendering, a modern UI, and persistent sessions.




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