Tabby is an infinitely customizable cross-platform terminal app for local shells, serial, SSH and Telnet connections.
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Terminal AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Shells for Mac
There are many alternatives to Terminal for Mac if you are looking for a replacement. The best Mac Shell alternative is Tabby, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Terminal and ten of them are Shells available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac Shell alternatives to Terminal are PowerShell, Hyper, WindTerm and ZOC.
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- 106 Tabby alternatives
68 PowerShell alternativesPowerShell (including Windows PowerShell and PowerShell Core) is a task automation and configuration management framework from Microsoft, consisting of a command-line shell and associated scripting language built on the .NET Framework.
96 Hyper alternativesHyper™ 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.
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74 ZOC alternativesZOC is a powerful and well-established terminal emulator and telnet client, well known for its outstanding user interface with tabbed multi session support.
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Comments about ZOC as an Alternative to Terminal
- ZOC is Paid and Proprietary
- ZOC is Lightweight
65 xterm alternativesThe 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.
A terminal emulator for the 21st century. (formerly) Black Screen is a terminal emulator and interactive shell with auto-completion.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application types
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac
- Linux
- Electron / Atom Shell
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MacTerm (was MacTelnet) on OS X is now a complete replacement for Terminal, allowing access to both local and remote applications.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- iPhone
- iPad
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Tempest is a free, cross platform, privacy first, SSH client, Local terminal and Kubernetes terminal.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
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Fantastic terminal software with many code page emulations including DOS437, internal file transfer protocols such as zmodem, excellent ANSI emulation, perfect to access BBS systems via serial/modem, telnet or ssh! Support powerful REXX scripts and detailed logs.