Scanline Term Alternatives

Apps similar to Scanline Term include Ghostty, which is free and open source. Other options are Tabby, Termux, Windows Terminal and Kitty terminal. Terminal Emulators like Scanline Term are a crowded field, with more than 50 alternatives for Linux, Mac, Windows, Android and iPhone.

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  1. foot icon
     11 likes

    Fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator. Supports daemon mode, Sixel, and scrollback search.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2020

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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  2. Guake terminal icon
     132 likes

    Guake is a top-down terminal for Gnome (in the style of Yakuake for KDE, Tilda or the terminal used in Quake). Guake is already package by a number of distribution (among them are Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu or ArchLinux).

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2009

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
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  3. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2026

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  4. xterm icon
     31 likes

    The xterm program is a terminal emulator for the X Window System. It provides DEC VT102 and Tektronix 4014 compatible terminals for programs that can't use the window system directly.

    92 xterm alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2012

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  5. 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

    Since

    • Since 2026

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  6. Xfce4-Terminal icon
     39 likes

    Xfce Terminal is a lightweight and easy to use terminal emulator application with many advanced features including drop down, tabs, unlimited scrolling, full colors, fonts, transparent backgrounds, and more.

    87 Xfce4-Terminal alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2011

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Xfce
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  7. GNOME Console icon
     7 likes

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

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2023

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • GNOME
    • Linux Mobile
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  8. Ghostel icon
     2 likes

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

    54 Ghostel alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2026

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
    • FreeBSD
    • BSD
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  9. Muxy icon
     2 likes

    Muxy is a lightweight, memory-efficient terminal app for macOS, built with SwiftUI and libghostty. It offers a project-based workflow to organize terminals by project with persistent workspace state, vertical tabs with drag-and-drop reordering, pinning, and renaming, as well as...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2026

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  10. Black Box icon
     3 likes

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

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2022

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    Good alternative?
     
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