



RXVT is described as '–our extended virtual terminal– is a terminal emulator for X11. It is a popular replacement for the standard ‘xterm’' and is a terminal emulator in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to RXVT for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD and Flathub apps. The best RXVT alternative is PuTTY, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like RXVT are Tabby, Termux, Windows Terminal and Cmder.




lterm is a vte-based terminal emulator for GNU/Linux systems. It is mainly used as ssh/telnet client but can be very easily configured to use any other protocol. Furthermore it can be a usual terminal on local host.


QuTTY 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.


It is a Windows CE port of famous PuTTY (free, BSD licensed open source SSH terminal for Windows). I started to port PuTTY as a part of my diploma thesis. After quite big success (10.000 downloads during 1st month after release), I decided to polish the code and open the source...

Terra is a GTK+3.0 based terminal emulator with useful user interface, it also supports multiple terminals with splitting screen horizontally or vertically.
TTWin - Windows® terminal emulation is Turbosoft's premier terminal emulation solution for Windows platforms. You can download a free TTWin trial version online.


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.