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- Open Source
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- Windows
Windows Terminal Alternatives
Apps similar to Windows Terminal include Ghostty, which is free and open source. Other options are Tabby, Termux, MobaXterm and Cmder. There's no shortage of Terminal Emulators like Windows Terminal, with more than 100 alternatives for Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and iPhone.
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101 ZOC alternativesZOC is a powerful and well-established terminal emulator and telnet client, well known for its outstanding user interface with tabbed multi session support.
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- Paid
- Proprietary
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- Mac
- Windows
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50 Windows Command Prompt alternativesCommand Prompt, also known as cmd.exe or cmd (after its executable file name), is the command-line interpreter on Windows NT, Windows CE, OS/2 and eComStation operating systems. It is the counterpart of COMMAND.
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- Free
- Proprietary
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- Windows
United States
55 Kuu alternativesFast, polished native macOS terminal. Real login shells on a Metal surface (SwiftUI + libghostty), with native windows and tabs, per-tab zoom, find in scrollback, and a color theme catalog. Secure by default: signed and notarized builds, auto-updates via Sparkle, no account, no...
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- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
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- Mac
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87 xterm alternativesThe xterm program is a terminal emulator for the X Window System. It provides DEC VT102 and Tektronix 4014 compatible terminals for programs that can't use the window system directly.
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- Free
- Open Source
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- Mac
- Linux
- BSD
- United States
101 Tilix alternativesTilix is a tiling terminal emulator which uses the VTE GTK+ 3 widget with the following features:
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- Free
- Open Source
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- Linux
Canada
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55 mintty alternativesMintty is a terminal emulator for Cygwin that is based on code from PuTTY 0.60 by Simon Tatham and team.
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- Free
- Open Source
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- Windows
United Kingdom
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (Apache-2.0)
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- Windows
- Mac
- Linux
- Java
- Germany
- EU
Terminal emulator which mimics the look and feel of the old cathode tube screens, designed for eye-candy with lots of graphic options.
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- Free
- Open Source
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- Mac
- Linux
Italy- EU
83 Xfce4-Terminal alternativesXfce Terminal is a lightweight and easy to use terminal emulator application with many advanced features including drop down, tabs, unlimited scrolling, full colors, fonts, transparent backgrounds, and more.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
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Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
- Xfce
- Global
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
- Germany
- EU
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.
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- Free
- Open Source
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- Linux
- BSD
