tmux Alternatives

One of the most popular alternatives to tmux is Herdr, which is free and open source. Other popular alternatives are GNU Screen, WezTerm, Zellij and RMUX. There's no shortage of Terminal Emulators like tmux, with more than 25 alternatives for Linux, Mac, Windows, the web and iPhone.

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    abduco provides session management i.e. it allows programs to be run independently from their controlling terminal. That is programs can be detached - run in the background - and then later reattached. Together with dvtm it provides a simpler and cleaner alternative to tmux or...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (ISC)

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Haiku
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    Perhaps the smallest useful terminal multiplexer in the world.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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    itmux is a packaging of Tmux, Mintty, OpenSSH client and Cygwin to offer a standalone ssh-enabled terminal multiplexer for Windows systems.

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    • Windows
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    shpool is a service that enables session persistence by allowing the creation of named shell sessions owned by shpool so that the session is not lost if the connection drops. shpool can be thought of as a lighter weight alternative to tmux or GNU screen.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Rust
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    Open-source infrastructure for running persistent AI coding agents across local and remote machines.

    2 Hive alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BA flagBosnia & Herzegovina
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    Node-based terminal manager for AI coding agents — tmux-backed terminals and parallel agent sessions as draggable nodes on an infinite pan/zoom canvas. macOS, Linux, and a browser Server Edition.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • iPhone
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    A dtach-like program / crate in Rust.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Rust
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    minimal terminal emulator for wayland.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
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    Horadric turns every coding agent session into a small tile on the desktop, grouped by project. A tile turns amber when the agent needs you.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
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  10. Local Go/tmux TUI to spawn, switch, and supervise multiple AI coding agents in parallel with live status, quick prompts, and in-terminal diff review.

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    • Mac
    • Linux
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    Desktop cockpit that runs Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI in project-organized terminals, with phone remote control, on-device voice dictation and Telegram bots.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
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    A GNU screen style terminal multiplexer built on libghostty (libghostty-vt), written in Zig.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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