WezTerm Alternatives

Apps similar to WezTerm include Ghostty, which is free and open source. Other options are Tabby, Termux, PowerShell and Windows Terminal. Terminal Emulators like WezTerm are a crowded field, with more than 100 alternatives for Linux, Mac, Windows, iPad and iPhone.

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  1. A modern MobaXterm/PuTTY alternative for Windows: tabbed SSH + VNC, a full SFTP file manager, and Ctrl+V to paste images straight into a remote terminal over SFTP.

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    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  2. SSH Explorer is a new generation SSH Client and Terminal Emulator that makes remote server management look like much more fun than it actually is :) Combined security and ease of use make it suitable for newbies and experts alike.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Rust
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    A free, open-source SSH client with SFTP, remote desktop, port tunneling and built-in database tools, for Windows, macOS, Linux and Android.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Android
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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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  6. vnm_terminal is a free, open-source terminal emulator for Windows and Linux, with GPU-accelerated rendering and one terminal session per window.

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

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    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
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    minimal terminal emulator for wayland.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
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  9. cterm icon
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    cterm is a tiny terminal emulator I built from frustrations of not being able to use st across different platforms. Much like st, it is very, very small--even smaller than st. For this reason, however, cterm does not have the "standard" terminal emulator features such...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (ISC)

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
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    YAET is a terminal emulator built on Xterm.js and Electron. It can interpret escape sequences that allow shell scripts and other programs to write HTML content directly to the terminal, or display content from the web.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • npm
    • Node.JS
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
    • BSD
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  11. DockTerm icon
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    DockTerm is a desktop terminal workspace for Claude Code. Every pane is a real terminal running your own claude session, with tabs, splits and grids.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Homebrew
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