Kitty terminal Alternatives

Apps similar to Kitty terminal include Ghostty, which is free and open source. Other options are Tabby, Termux, Windows Terminal and ConEmu. You're spoiled for choice with Terminal Emulators like Kitty terminal: we list more than 100 alternatives for Linux, Mac, Windows, iPad and iPhone.

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  1. Black Box icon
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    Black Box is a native terminal emulator that offers superb theming options.

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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  2. Otty icon
     2 likes

    Native GPU-accelerated terminal with keyboard-first design, agent compatibility, Unicode, ligatures, inline images, true color, tabs, panes, splits, session recovery, rich color schemes, real-time notifications, fuzzy search, custom layouts, and quick navigation.

    57 Otty alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
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  3. GNOME Console icon
     6 likes

    A simple user-friendly terminal emulator for the GNOME desktop.

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    • Linux
    • GNOME
    • Linux Mobile
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  4. Fluent Terminal icon
     12 likes

    Terminal emulator based on UWP and web technologies.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  5. Terminology icon
     17 likes

    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

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
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  6. Electerm icon
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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.

    85 Electerm alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Electron
    • Homebrew
    • AppImage
    • npm
    • JavaScript
    • Fedora
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  7. Tilix icon
     32 likes

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

    99 Tilix alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
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  8. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
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  9. Chafa icon
     5 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...

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    • Windows
    • Linux
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  10. KillerShell icon
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    KillerShell puts a file browser, a terminal and a text editor in one window, on one tab strip and one set of keys, so you stop alt-tabbing.

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    • Windows
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  11. 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

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    Platforms

    • Mac
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  12. Ghostel icon
     2 likes

    Ghostel is a terminal emulator for Emacs powered by libghostty-vt, the VT engine behind the Ghostty terminal.

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
    • FreeBSD
    • BSD
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