Termux AlternativesTop Terminal Emulators and other similar apps like Termux

One of the most popular alternatives to Termux is PuTTY, which is free and open source. Other popular alternatives are Ghostty, Tabby, Windows Terminal and MobaXterm. You're spoiled for choice with Terminal Emulators like Termux: we list more than 100 alternatives for Linux, Mac, Windows, Android and iPhone.

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  1. PuTTY icon
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    Free and open-source terminal emulator for connecting to remote systems via SSH, Telnet, and SCP. Portable with no installation required, providing lightweight functionality. Ideal for secure connections with features like command line support and customizable settings. Works offline effortlessly.

    153 PuTTY alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • PortableApps.com
    • ReactOS
    • Flathub
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  2. Ghostty icon
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    Cross-platform terminal emulator balancing speed, platform-native UI, and modern features. Designed for an enhanced interactive CLI environment, offering full standards compliance for seamless integration with shells and CLI tools.

    86 Ghostty alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Linux Mobile
    • Nix Package Manager
    • Homebrew
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  3. Tabby icon
     135 likes

    Tabby is an infinitely customizable cross-platform terminal app for local shells, serial, SSH and Telnet connections.

    150 Tabby alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  4. Windows Terminal icon
     101 likes

    Windows Terminal is a new, modern, feature-rich, productive terminal application for command-line users. It includes many of the features most frequently requested by the Windows command-line community including support for tabs, rich text, globalization, configurability...

    145 Windows Terminal alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Windows
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  5. MobaXterm icon
     234 likes

    MobaXterm is an enhanced terminal app that brings the advanced features of a Unix-like command-line to Windows. It takes the power of Cygwin and wraps it in a sleek, visual interface that's super easy to use, lightweight and portable.

    172 MobaXterm alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  6. Konsole icon
     87 likes

    Konsole is a terminal to run a command shell. It provides a command line interface for directly controlling your computer.

    94 Konsole alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • KDE
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  7. Kitty terminal icon
     74 likes

    Kitty ( not to be confused with KiTTY ) is a powerful, cross-platform GPU-based terminal emulator. It offloads rendering to the GPU and uses OpenGL for fast, cross-platform performance with built-in tiling layouts as well as graphic, unicode...

    107 Kitty terminal alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Linux
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  8. mRemoteNG icon
     231 likes

    Manage remote connections efficiently with this open-source tool, featuring a tabbed interface supporting RDP, VNC, SSH, Telnet, HTTP, and more protocols, without any ads.

    113 mRemoteNG alternatives

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    • Windows
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  9. iTerm2 icon
     178 likes

    Terminal emulator for macOS enabling split panes, session restoration, advanced customization, search, SSH, automation features, tmux integration, Unicode, mouse support, notifications, inline images, broadcast input, and profile management.

    115 iTerm2 alternatives

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    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • US flagUnited States
    By Itself
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  10. Alacritty icon
     75 likes

    Alacritty is a blazing fast, GPU accelerated terminal emulator. It’s written in Rust and uses OpenGL for rendering to be the fastest terminal emulator available. Alacritty is available on GitHub in source form.

    113 Alacritty alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Linux Mobile
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  11. GNOME Terminal icon
     165 likes

    GNOME Terminal is a terminal emulator for the GNOME desktop environment written by Havoc Pennington and others. Terminal emulators allow users to execute commands using a real UNIX shell while remaining on their graphical desktop.

    92 GNOME Terminal alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • GNOME
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