Terminal Alternatives

Terminal is described as '(also referred to as Terminal.app) is a terminal emulator included in Apple's Mac OS X operating system. It originated in Mac OS X's predecessors, NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP, and allows the user to interact with the computer through a command line interface' and is a popular terminal emulator in the os & utilities category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Terminal for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Android apps. The best Terminal alternative is PuTTY, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Terminal are Ghostty, Tabby, Termux and iTerm2.

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  1. devglow icon
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    devglow is a macOS menu bar app that replaces terminal tabs, pm2, and port killer utilities for local development. It lets you register any shell command — whether it's Next.js, Vite, Hugo, Rails, Flask, Cargo, Go, or Docker — and manage everything from a single interface.

    52 devglow alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
     
  2. DumbTerm icon
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    A stupidly simple web-based terminal emulator, with common tools and Starship enabled (via Docker)!

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
  3. Termio icon
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    Modern terminal and SSH manager with AI, workspaces, and full privacy.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  4. Ratty icon
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    A GPU-rendered terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics. Inspired by TempleOS. Built with Rust & Ratatui.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Rust
     
  5. Muxy icon
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    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)

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    • Mac
     
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    minimal terminal emulator for wayland.

    51 havoc alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
     
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