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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iTerm2 AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Terminal Emulators for Linux
iTerm2 is not available for Linux but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux Terminal Emulator alternative is Ghostty, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to iTerm2 and many of them are Terminal Emulators available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux Terminal Emulator alternatives to iTerm2 are Tabby, Hyper, Kitty terminal and Konsole.
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116 Tabby alternativesTabby is an infinitely customizable cross-platform terminal app for local shells, serial, SSH and Telnet connections.
104 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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93 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...
78 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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93 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.
96 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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61 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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77 GNOME Terminal alternativesGNOME 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.
Tess is a terminal emulator. It lets you have a full access to your computer, use command line based programs and many more.
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50 Yakuake alternativesYakuake is a drop-down (Quake-style) terminal emulator based on KDE Konsole technology. Its design was inspired from consoles in computer games such as Quake which slide down from the top of the screen when a key is pressed, and slide back up when the key is pressed again.
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Really exactly the iTerm2 but for Windows!