Tabby is an infinitely customizable cross-platform terminal app for local shells, serial, SSH and Telnet connections.



Kitty terminal is not available for Windows but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Windows with similar functionality. The best Windows alternative is Tabby, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Kitty terminal and many of them are available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Windows alternatives to Kitty terminal are Windows Terminal, ConEmu, Alacritty and Warp Terminal.
Tabby is an infinitely customizable cross-platform terminal app for local shells, serial, SSH and Telnet connections.



Windows Terminal is a new, modern, feature-rich, productive terminal application for command-line users. It includes many of the features most frequently requested by the Windows command-line community including support for tabs, rich text, globalization, configurability...




Windows console emulator with tabs, which presents multiple consoles and simple GUI applications as one customizable GUI window with various features.




Alacritty is a blazing fast, GPU accelerated terminal emulator. It’s written in Rust and uses OpenGL for rendering to be the fastest terminal emulator available. Alacritty is available on GitHub in source form.


Warp is a blazingly fast, Rust-based terminal that makes you and your team more productive at coding and DevOps.




KiTTY is an opensource terminal emulator, forked from PuTTY , that adds many extra features to the original software.


Tess is a terminal emulator. It lets you have a full access to your computer, use command line based programs and many more.




A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust






Hyper™ is a beautiful and extensible, cross-platform terminal built on open web standards. It provides an elegant command-line experience that is consistent across all supported platforms which includes macOS, Windows and various Linux distributions like Fedora and Debian.




Wave is an open-source, AI-native terminal built for seamless developer workflows with inline rendering, a modern UI, and persistent sessions.




Termora is developed using Kotlin/JVM and partially implements the XTerm protocol (with ongoing improvements). Its ultimate vision is to achieve full platform support (including Android, iOS, and iPadOS) through Kotlin Multiplatform.

Much better performance. Sadly, it's missing a great deal of Kitty's features (including tabs), so it's not the best alternative.