Wemux Alternatives

Wemux is described as '- Multi-User Tmux Made Easy' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Wemux for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Rust, Windows and BSD apps. The best Wemux alternative is tmux, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Wemux are GNU Screen, RMUX, Zellij and byobu.

Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard
Wemux alternatives page was last updated

Alternatives list

  1. tmux icon
     129 likes

    tmux is a terminal multiplexer: it enables a number of terminals (or windows), each running a separate program, to be created, accessed, and controlled from a single screen. tmux may be detached from a screen and continue running in the background, then later reattached.

    16 tmux alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Cygwin
     
  2. GNU Screen icon
     90 likes

    Offers full-screen terminal multiplexing with independent windows, VT100 emulation, scrollback, and copy-paste. Supports ANSI standards, detaching, and persistent background process execution for shells or commands across Unix-like systems.

    12 GNU Screen alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  3. RMUX icon
     3 likes

    Universal Rust multiplexer for the agentic era: detachable, scriptable, and inspectable, with a tmux-compatible CLI, daemon-backed SDK, and native Ratatui integration.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Rust
     
  4. Zellij icon
     8 likes

    Zellij is a workspace aimed at developers, ops-oriented people and anyone who loves the terminal. Similar programs are sometimes called "Terminal Multiplexers".

    11 Zellij alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
     
  5. byobu icon
     24 likes

    Byobu is a GPLv3 open source text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer. It was originally designed to provide elegant enhancements to the otherwise functional, plain, practical GNU Screen , for the Ubuntu server distribution.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  6.  1 like

    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
     
  7.  1 like

    Twin is a windowing environment with mouse support, window manager, terminal emulator and networked clients, all inside a text display.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  8. mtm icon
     2 likes

    Perhaps the smallest useful terminal multiplexer in the world.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  9. dtach icon
     7 likes

    dtach is a tiny program that emulates the detach feature of screen, allowing you to run a program in an environment that is protected from the controlling terminal and attach to it later. dtach does not keep track of the contents of the screen, and thus works best with programs...

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  10. abduco icon
     2 likes

    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
     
  11. boo icon
     Like

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  12. diss icon
     Like

    A dtach-like program / crate in Rust.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Rust
     
12 of 12 Wemux alternatives