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, Windows, Mac, 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 Windows Terminal.

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  1. evilvte icon
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    VTE based, highly customizable terminal emulator. Features: tabs, tabbar autohide, right click to switch encoding, supports almost all VTE features, build-time configuration

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  2. csshX icon
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    csshX is a tool to allow simultaneous control of multiple SSH sessions. It will attempt to create an SSH session to each remote host in separate Terminal.app windows. A master window will also be created. All keyboard input in the master will be sent to all the slave windows.

    33 csshX alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  3. CLIX icon
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    CLIX ('command line interface for OS X') makes it easy to harness the power of Unix. It becomes both a fish to buy and a series of lessons in how to fish and ultimately a handy way to work.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    Based on rxvt. Tabbed interface. Very lightweight. Few dependencies. Only drawback is poor unicode support (theres an SVN branch with working but slightly buggy support)

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  5. SSH Pilot icon
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    Desktop SSH manager featuring a user-friendly graphical interface, integrated terminal, tabbed sessions, port forwarding, secure credential storage, SCP upload, keypair generation, privacy controls, customizable appearance options, and .ssh/config import support.

    51 SSH Pilot alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  6. LilyTerm icon
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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:

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    YAET is a terminal emulator built on Xterm.js and Electron. It can interpret escape sequences that allow shell scripts and other programs to write HTML content directly to the terminal, or display content from the web.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • npm
    • Node.JS
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
    • BSD
     
  8. Opaque icon
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    Opaque is a GPLv3 licensed secure, super fast oVirt, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV), and Proxmox VDI client that allows you to connect graphically to all your virtual machines running in the cloud from anywhere in the world.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
     
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    With SSH Client, you can secure remote servers, protect your data, and strengthen your online presence. SSH Client can seamlessly integrate with iOS and Mac devices for efficient and secure remote management. Fortify your online presence as robust, secure, and efficient.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
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