VTE based, highly customizable terminal emulator. Features: tabs, tabbar autohide, right click to switch encoding, supports almost all VTE features, build-time configuration
Platforms
- Linux
- Global
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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43 QuTTY alternativesQuTTY is a multi-tabbed, multi-paned SSH/Telnet client with a terminal emulator. The goal is to support advanced features similar to iterm2. Following features are supported.
Platforms
- Windows
Stjerm is a roll-down, quake-like terminal emulator. It's window is shown with a key shortcut. Stjerm is very minimalistic and works well with Compiz window manager.
Platforms
- Linux
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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Flathub
- FreeBSD
- Flatpak
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Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (LGPL-3.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Homebrew
Termdock is a terminal-centric AI dev environment that unifies multi-workspace management, multi-terminal layouts, and Git visualization in one interface.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
Taiwan
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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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
84 Putty for Mac alternativesPutty 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.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
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A super lightweight, beautiful, and simple terminal. It's designed to be setup with sane defaults and little to no configuration. It's just a terminal, nothing more, nothing less.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
United States
YeahConsole turns an xterm into a gamelike console. This means it will slide down from top of your screen if you hit a shortcut key. (You will need xterm version 168 or higher to make this happen).
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
TTYEmulator is a free terminal emulator application which can act as a client for the SSH, Telnet, rlogin, raw TCP and serial computing protocols. TTYEmulator is written for Microsoft Windows.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Windows
