Free iTerm2 Alternatives for Mac

There are many alternatives to iTerm2 for Mac if you are looking for a replacement. The best free Mac alternative is Ghostty, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to iTerm2 and many of them are free and available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free Mac alternatives to iTerm2 are Tabby, Hyper, Kitty terminal and Alacritty.

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iTerm2 alternatives are mainly Terminal Emulators, but if you're looking for Shells or SSH Clients you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Windows, Linux, Mac + Free, Mac and iPad. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to iTerm2.
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  1. Ghostty icon
     88 likes

    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.

    75 Ghostty alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Nix Package Manager
    • Homebrew
    • Linux Mobile
     
  2. Tabby icon
     129 likes

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

    134 Tabby alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Tabby vs iTerm2 Comments
    Guest
    Positive
    2

    Really exactly the iTerm2 but for Windows!

    • Tabby is Free and Open SourceiTerm2 is also Free and Open Source
    • Tabby is Privacy focusediTerm2 is not according to our users
  3. Hyper icon
     85 likes

    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.

    114 Hyper alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Electron / Atom Shell
     
  4. Kitty terminal icon
     66 likes

    Kitty ( 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...

    100 Kitty terminal alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  5. Alacritty icon
     72 likes

    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.

    102 Alacritty alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Linux Mobile
     
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    Alacritty vs iTerm2 Comments
    RemovedUser
    Positive
    0

    I'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 SourceiTerm2 is also Free and Open Source
  6. Warp Terminal icon
     31 likes

    Warp is a blazingly fast, Rust-based terminal that makes you and your team more productive at coding and DevOps.

    73 Warp Terminal alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Homebrew
     
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    Warp Terminal vs iTerm2 Comments
    hitori
    Positive
    0

    It's modern, fast, easy to config and pretty.

    • Warp Terminal is Freemium and Open SourceiTerm2 is Free and Open Source
  7. Terminal icon
     86 likes

    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.

    123 Terminal alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  8. WezTerm icon
     23 likes

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

    126 WezTerm alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. Termora icon
     11 likes

    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.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Homebrew
     
  10. uniTerm icon
     4 likes

    Lightweight all-in-one terminal with over 20 protocols including SSH, RDP, SFTP, and databases, featuring an autonomous AI agent for multi-round shell commands, advanced file transfer, real-time server monitoring, split panes, cloud sync, and multilingual support.

    20 uniTerm alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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