Termux Alternatives

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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Most Termux alternatives are Terminal Emulators, but you can also narrow the list to SSH Clients or Shells. Other popular filters are Android, Windows, iPhone and iPad.
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  1. Android-Terminal-Emulator - A VT-100 terminal emulator for the Android OS.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Android
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  2. 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.

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Windows
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  3. Extraterm icon
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    Extraterm is more than just a traditional terminal emulator. It provides a toolbox for working with your terminal and command line applications, allowing you to capture and reuse previous command output across your terminal sessions, preview images and rich media directly, and...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Cygwin
    • AppImage
    • Typescript
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  4. Ghostel icon
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    Ghostel is a terminal emulator for Emacs powered by libghostty-vt, the VT engine behind the Ghostty terminal.

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
    • FreeBSD
    • BSD
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  5. MacTerm icon
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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

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
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  6. SmarTTY icon
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    SmarTTY is a neat multi-tabbed SSH client with built-in SSH support. It makes it extremely easy to connect to your SSH servers and exchange files. It allows storing your private keys securely in Windows key containers and can set up the remote host for remote key authentication...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  7. 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...

    54 Muxy alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
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  8. Another Term icon
     2 likes

    SSH / Telnet / UART dongles (USB and Bluetooth) / own PTY client for Android.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Android
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  9. Opaque icon
     1 like

    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

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    • Android
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  10. Muxly icon
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    Muxly is an SSH terminal for iPhone and iPad built around tmux control mode. It presents tmux windows as native tabs, and panes through a pane picker on iPhone and following their tmux layout on iPad. tmux stays the source of truth.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • iPhone
    • iPad
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  11. Tilix icon
     32 likes

    Tilix is a tiling terminal emulator which uses the VTE GTK+ 3 widget with the following features:

    101 Tilix alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
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