Windows Terminal Alternatives

Windows Terminal is described as 'New, modern, feature-rich, productive terminal application for command-line users. It includes many of the features most frequently requested by the Windows command-line community including support for tabs, rich text, globalization, configurability' and is a popular terminal emulator in the os & utilities category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Windows Terminal for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Android apps. The best Windows Terminal alternative is Ghostty, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Windows Terminal are Tabby, Termux, Cmder and ConEmu.

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Windows Terminal alternatives are mainly Terminal Emulators, but if you're looking for SSH Clients or Shells you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Windows. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Windows Terminal.
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  1. Solar-PuTTY icon
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    Solar presents the omniscient PuTTY SSH and Telnet client with extended interface enriched by a simple graphical SFTP explorer, all coming packed in a single exe file, which can be used without admin rights.

    20 Solar-PuTTY alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. terminalpp icon
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    terminalpp (terminal++) is a minimalist but powerful terminal emulator which provides the same features and user experience on both Windows and Linux.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. LXTerminal icon
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    LXTerminal is the standard terminal emulator of LXDE. The terminal is a desktop-independent VTE-based terminal emulator for LXDE without any unnecessary dependency.

    65 LXTerminal alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  4. Another Term icon
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    SSH / Telnet / UART dongles (USB and Bluetooth) / own PTY client for Android.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  5. PAC Manager icon
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    PAC is a Perl/GTK Gnome replacement for SecureCRT/Putty/etc... It provides a GUI to configure SSH/Telnet connections: users, passwords, EXPECT regular expressions, macros, etc.

    54 PAC Manager alternatives

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  6. MacTerm icon
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    MacTerm (was MacTelnet) on OS X is now a complete replacement for Terminal, allowing access to both local and remote applications.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  7. Deepin Terminal is a terminal manager developed by deepin team that can freely split window according to users requirements with horizontal and vertical screen split supported. It allows users to do terminal settings of fonts and colors changing, background pictures...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE
    • Deepin
     
  8. Harness the native Linux command-line potential of Android with this Terminal. BTEP is an advanced Terminal Emulator and SSH client for your phone or tablet. Unleash the command line potential of the Android console with this terminal. Best if rooted, but root not required. Run n.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  9. Poderosa icon
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    Poderosa is a tabbed terminal emulator for Windows.

    Against common terminal emulators such as Putty or TeraTerm, Poderosa has following features.

    Tabbed style GUI It is convenient to open multiple connections at the same time. Moreover, you can split the window into panes a.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. Putty for Mac icon
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    Putty is one of the Best Terminal Emulators available today. It Supports different types of Network Protocols such as SSH, FTP, SCP, Telnet etc. In Windows it is used as SSH Client to connect to Your Linux server or for some other purpose.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  11. superconsole icon
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    SuperConsole is a software collection based on ConEmu, MSYS2, Mintty, Zsh, Git for Windows, grml-zsh-config, Antigen and agkozak-zsh-theme projects, customized and configured for everyday use.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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