Velocitty Alternatives

Apps similar to Velocitty include Ghostty, which is free and open source. Other options are Tabby, Termux, Windows Terminal and MobaXterm. You're spoiled for choice with Terminal Emulators like Velocitty: we list more than 50 alternatives for Linux, Mac, Windows, Android and iPad.

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Velocitty alternatives page was last updated Oct 31, 2026

Fluent Terminal
12 likes
Terminal emulator based on UWP and web technologies.
117 Fluent Terminal alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Terminal Emulator
Since
Since 2018
Platforms
Windows
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Black Box
3 likes
Black Box is a native terminal emulator that offers superb theming options.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Terminal Emulator
Since
Since 2022
Platforms
Linux
Flathub
Flatpak
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upterm
23 likes
A terminal emulator for the 21st century. (formerly) Black Screen is a terminal emulator and interactive shell with auto-completion.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Terminal Emulator
Origin
Ukraine
Since
Since 2016
Alerts
Discontinued
Platforms
Mac
Linux
Electron / Atom Shell
Ukraine
+5
Good alternative?Is upterm a good alternative to Velocitty?
Tilix
32 likes
Tilix is a tiling terminal emulator which uses the VTE GTK+ 3 widget with the following features:
104 Tilix alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Terminal Emulator
Origin
Canada
Since
Since 2016
Platforms
Linux
Canada
+2
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Extraterm
9 likes
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)
Application type
Terminal Emulator
Origin
Australia
Since
Since 2018
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
Cygwin
AppImage
Typescript
Australia
Good alternative?Is Extraterm a good alternative to Velocitty?
tilda
39 likes
Tilda is a Linux terminal taking after the likeness of many classic terminals from first person shooter games, Quake, Doom and Half-Life to name a few, where the terminal has no border and is hidden from the desktop till a key or keys is hit.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Terminal Emulator
Since
Since 2009
Alerts
Discontinued
Platforms
Linux
BSD
Good alternative?Is tilda a good alternative to Velocitty?
rxvt-unicode
29 likes
Rxvt-unicode is a highly customizable terminal emulator forked from rxvt. Commonly known as urxvt, rxvt-unicode can be daemonized to run clients within a single process in order to minimize the use of system resources.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Terminal Emulator
Since
Since 2011
Platforms
Mac
Linux
Good alternative?Is rxvt-unicode a good alternative to Velocitty?
Terminology
17 likes
Terminology is a terminal emulator for e17.

What does it do?

It emulates a slightly extended vt100 with some extensions and bling thrown in.

Most escapes supported by xterm, rxvt etc. work Xterm 256 color escapes work Backgrounds (bitmap, scalable/vector, animated.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Terminal Emulator
Since
Since 2013
Platforms
Linux
BSD
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Contour Terminal Emulator
2 likes
Contour is a modern terminal emulator, for everyday use. It is aiming for power users with a modern feature mindset.
67 Contour Terminal Emulator alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Application type
Terminal Emulator
Origin
Germany
EU
Since
Since 2022
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
Flathub
Flatpak
Germany
EU
Good alternative?Is this a good alternative to Velocitty?
Electerm
3 likes
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.
93 Electerm alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (MIT)
Application typeApplication types
Terminal Emulator
File Manager
Origin
China
Since
Since 2018
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
Electron
Homebrew
AppImage
npm
JavaScript
Fedora
China
Good alternative?Is Electerm a good alternative to Velocitty?
Termux Monet
1 like
A terminal emulator application for Android 8+ OS extendible by variety of packages, with Monet support and experimental features.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Terminal Emulator
Since
Since 2024
Alerts
Discontinued
Platforms
Android
Good alternative?Is Termux Monet a good alternative to Velocitty?
MATE Terminal
4 likes
MATE Terminal is a terminal emulator for the MATE desktop environment. Terminal emulators allow users to execute commands using a real UNIX shell while remaining on their graphical desktop
67 MATE Terminal alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Terminal Emulator
Origin
International
Since
Since 2018
Platforms
Linux
BSD
FreeBSD
OpenIndiana
GhostBSD
Good alternative?Is MATE Terminal a good alternative to Velocitty?