Tess Alternatives

Tess is described as 'Terminal emulator. It lets you have a full access to your computer, use command line based programs and many more' and is a terminal emulator in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Tess for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Tess alternative is Ghostty, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Tess are Tabby, Termux, Windows Terminal and MobaXterm.

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  1. TEXTREME icon
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    TEXTREME is a lively, animated text editor with the feel of a retro videogame complete with sounds and game-like visual effects. The screen shakes as you type while particle effects decorate new characters.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. Station is a terminal emulation application that you can use to access a UNIX shell in a graphical environment. Station features different view modes such as split vertically and horizontally, a tabbed interface, and copy and paste commands.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  3. Electerm icon
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    electerm is a terminal/ssh/sftp client(linux, mac, win) based on electron/node-pty/xterm/antd and many other libs, it works like a combination of guake and xshell.

    70 Electerm alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Electron
    • Homebrew
    • AppImage
    • npm
    • JavaScript
    • Fedora
     
  4. 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)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    minimal terminal emulator for wayland.

    51 havoc alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
     
  6. 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
     
  7. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

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

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
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