Kitty terminal Alternatives

Kitty terminal is described as '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' and is a popular terminal emulator in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Kitty terminal for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and iPad apps. The best Kitty terminal alternative is Ghostty, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Kitty terminal are Tabby, Termux, Windows Terminal and Alacritty.

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  1. Terminology icon
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    Terminology is a terminal emulator for e17.

    What does it do?

    It emulates a slightly extended vt100 with some extensions and bling thrown in.

    Most escapes supported by xterm, rxvt etc. work Xterm 256 color escapes work Backgrounds (bitmap, scalable/vector, animated.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  2. Tilix icon
     32 likes

    Tilix is a tiling terminal emulator which uses the VTE GTK+ 3 widget with the following features:

    84 Tilix alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  3. 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
     
  4. Prompt icon
     10 likes

    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.

    36 Prompt alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  5. Chafa icon
     4 likes

    Chafa is a command-line utility that converts image data, including animated GIFs, into graphics formats or ANSI/Unicode character art suitable for display in a terminal. It has broad feature support, allowing it to be used on devices ranging from historical teleprinters to...

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. Electerm icon
     2 likes

    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.

    70 Electerm alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Electron
    • Homebrew
    • AppImage
    • npm
    • JavaScript
    • Fedora
     
  7. ConsoleZ icon
     27 likes

    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 types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. Terra is a GTK+3.0 based terminal emulator with useful user interface, it also supports multiple terminals with splitting screen horizontally or vertically.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  9. Termux Monet icon
     1 like

    A terminal emulator application for Android 8+ OS extendible by variety of packages, with Monet support and experimental features.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  10. evilvte icon
     3 likes

    VTE based, highly customizable terminal emulator. Features: tabs, tabbar autohide, right click to switch encoding, supports almost all VTE features, build-time configuration

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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