Cross-platform terminal emulator balancing speed, platform-native UI, and modern features. Designed for an enhanced interactive CLI environment, offering full standards compliance for seamless integration with shells and CLI tools.
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The Best iTerm2 AlternativesTop Terminal Emulators and other similar apps like iTerm2
iTerm2 is described as 'Terminal emulator for macOS supporting split panes, session restoration, advanced search, inline images, SSH connections, automation, and tmux integration' and is a very popular terminal emulator in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to iTerm2 for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and iPad apps. The best iTerm2 alternative is Ghostty, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like iTerm2 are ConEmu, Tabby, Hyper and Windows Terminal.
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59 Ghostty alternatives
63 ConEmu alternativesWindows console emulator with tabs, which presents multiple consoles and simple GUI applications as one customizable GUI window with various features.
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ConEmu vs iTerm2 Comments
TildeConEmu is Windows-only. iTerm2 is macOS-only.
- ConEmu is Free and Open Source
108 Tabby alternativesTabby is an infinitely customizable cross-platform terminal app for local shells, serial, SSH and Telnet connections.
Tabby vs iTerm2 Comments
Really exactly the iTerm2 but for Windows!
- Tabby is Free and Open Source
98 Hyper alternativesHyper™ 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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105 Windows Terminal alternativesWindows 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...
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Windows Terminal vs iTerm2 Comments
It cannot be an alternative to iTerm2 (which is macOS-compatible), because it only runs on Windows.
TildeWindows Terminal is (naturally) Windows-only. iTerm2 is macOS-only.
- Windows Terminal is Free and Open Source
103 Termux alternativesExperience a powerful Unix terminal on Android without the need for rooting. Customize with packages via Apt, run command-line tools, SSH, and program in C, Python, and more. Enjoy a full Unix environment with bash, zsh, mouse support, and external display compatibility.
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- Android Tablet
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Termux vs iTerm2 Comments
How is a mobile-only app a viable alternative to a desktop-only application?
- Termux is Free and Open Source
118 MobaXterm alternativesMobaXterm 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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MobaXterm vs iTerm2 Comments
TildeMobaXterm is Windows-only. iTerm2 is macOS-only.
- MobaXterm is Freemium and Proprietary
87 Alacritty alternativesAlacritty 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.
Alacritty vs iTerm2 Comments
RemovedUserI'm happy because it works on Linux Mint and has more customization and features than the built-in terminal application.
- Alacritty is Free and Open Source
87 Kitty terminal alternativesKitty ( not to be confused with KiTTY ) is a powerful, cross-platform GPU-based terminal emulator. It offloads rendering to the GPU and uses OpenGL for fast, cross-platform performance with built-in tiling layouts as well as graphic, unicode...
90 Terminator alternativesTerminator 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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Terminator vs iTerm2 Comments
TildeTerminator is Linux/BSD-only. iTerm2 is macOS-only.
- Terminator is Free and Open Source
72 Konsole alternativesKonsole is a terminal to run a command shell. It provides a command line interface for directly controlling your computer.
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Konsole vs iTerm2 Comments
TildeKonsole is Linux/BSD-only. iTerm2 is macOS-only.
- Konsole is Free and Open Source
52 Warp Terminal alternativesWarp is a blazingly fast, Rust-based terminal that makes you and your team more productive at coding and DevOps.
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Warp Terminal vs iTerm2 Comments
hitoriIt's modern, fast, easy to config and pretty.
- Warp Terminal is Freemium and Proprietary
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It has tabs and multiple consoles plus customizable GUI :D