Kwi Alternatives

Apps similar to Kwi include Ghostty, which is free and open source. Other options are Tabby, Termux, Windows Terminal and MobaXterm. You're spoiled for choice with Terminal Emulators like Kwi: we list more than 50 alternatives for Linux, Mac, Windows, Android and iPad.

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Kwi alternatives page was last updated Nov 2, 2026

LilyTerm
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LilyTerm: light, but functional terminal emulator LilyTerm is a terminal emulator based off of libvte that aims to be fast and lightweight, Licensed under GPLv3.

Features:

Low resource-consumption -- No additional library required -- Supports "Single Instance Application.

Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Terminal Emulator
Origin
United States
Since
Since 2011
Platforms
Linux
United States
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Deepin Terminal
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Deepin Terminal is a terminal manager developed by deepin team that can freely split window according to users requirements with horizontal and vertical screen split supported. It allows users to do terminal settings of fonts and colors changing, background pictures...
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Terminal Emulator
Since
Since 2020
Platforms
Linux
KDE
Deepin
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KillerShell
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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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Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Text Editor
Origin
United States
Since
Since 2026
Platforms
Windows
United States
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