MacTerm (was MacTelnet) on OS X is now a complete replacement for Terminal, allowing access to both local and remote applications.
iTerm2 Alternatives for Mac
There are many alternatives to iTerm2 for Mac if you are looking for a replacement. The best Mac 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 available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting 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 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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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.
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- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Electron
- Homebrew
- AppImage
- npm
- JavaScript
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With convenient and powerful user interface, ShellCraft significantly improve your efficiency. ShellCraft implements the standard SSH/Telnet protocol, it can simply connect to various servers. The session management function make you managing sessions easily, connecting to...
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- Paid
- Proprietary
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Alerts
- Discontinued
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- Mac
- iPhone
- iPad
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Termdock is a terminal-centric AI dev environment that unifies multi-workspace management, multi-terminal layouts, and Git visualization in one interface.
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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.
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- Free
- Proprietary
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- Mac
Putty is one of the Best Terminal Emulators available today. It Supports different types of Network Protocols such as SSH, FTP, SCP, Telnet etc. In Windows it is used as SSH Client to connect to Your Linux server or for some other purpose.
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- Paid
- Proprietary
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- Mac
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Hardware-accelerated terminal emulator using WebGPU for smooth high frame rates, customizable GPU usage, asynchronous Rust foundation, efficient redux-based rendering, WebAssembly extensibility for tab systems, and both desktop and browser support.
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- Paid
- Proprietary
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- Mac
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