console - This is a modified version of Console 2 for a better experience under Windows Vista/7/8 and a better visual rendering.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Windows
iTerm2 Alternatives
The top-rated alternative to iTerm2 is Ghostty, which is free and open source. People also recommend ConEmu, Tabby, Hyper and Termux. You're spoiled for choice with Terminal Emulators like iTerm2: we list more than 100 alternatives for Linux, Mac, Windows, iPad and Android.
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50 tilda alternativesTilda is a Linux terminal taking after the likeness of many classic terminals from first person shooter games, Quake, Doom and Half-Life to name a few, where the terminal has no border and is hidden from the desktop till a key or keys is hit.
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
Core Shell is a full-featured terminal with built-in OpenSSH support, focused on managing and login to hosts efficiently.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
China
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69 LXTerminal alternativesLXTerminal is the standard terminal emulator of LXDE. The terminal is a desktop-independent VTE-based terminal emulator for LXDE without any unnecessary dependency.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
Germany
EU
Prompt is the terminal that goes where you do, whether you're on the road or at your desk. With Panic Sync, your servers are available on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac. With Mosh and Eternal Terminal support, you can stay connected even on the most unstable networks.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- iPhone
- iPad
United States
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Automatically tiles and organizes all terminal sessions in one native macOS window, scaling layouts from fullscreen to grid, grouping sessions by project with color-coding, enabling instant filtering, supporting any CLI tool, and requiring zero configuration.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
Australia
114 Blink Shell alternativesBlink Shell is the professional, desktop-grade terminal emulator for iOS. It's a full-featured and highly configurable open-source terminal that can be compiled from the source at GitHub or purchased as a pre-compiled app from the App Store to support the developers.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Platforms
- iPhone
- iPad
- United States
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A system-wide terminal accessible via a hot-key. TotalTerminal is a plugin for Terminal.app. It provides persistent Visor Window which slides down when you press a hot-key. Remember Quake Console?
Platforms
- Mac
New Zealand
101 MacTerm alternativesMacTerm (was MacTelnet) on OS X is now a complete replacement for Terminal, allowing access to both local and remote applications.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
MATE Terminal is a terminal emulator for the MATE desktop environment. Terminal emulators allow users to execute commands using a real UNIX shell while remaining on their graphical...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
- FreeBSD
- OpenIndiana
- GhostBSD
Ghostel is a terminal emulator for Emacs powered by libghostty-vt, the VT engine behind the Ghostty terminal.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
- Mac
- FreeBSD
- BSD
- Germany
- EU
Muxy is a lightweight, memory-efficient terminal app for macOS, built with SwiftUI and libghostty. It offers a project-based workflow to organize terminals by project with persistent workspace state, vertical tabs with drag-and-drop reordering, pinning, and renaming, as well as...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Germany
- EU
