Fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator. Supports daemon mode, Sixel, and scrollback search.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application type
SwedenPlatforms
- Linux
- Flathub
- Flatpak
xterm Alternatives
Apps similar to xterm include Ghostty, which is free and open source. Other options are Tabby, Termux, Windows Terminal and Kitty terminal. Terminal Emulators like xterm are a crowded field, with more than 50 alternatives for Linux, Mac, Windows, Android and iPhone.
Alternatives list
Contour is a modern terminal emulator, for everyday use. It is aiming for power users with a modern feature mindset.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Flathub
- Flatpak
Germany
EU
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
- Germany
- EU
KillerShell puts a file browser, a terminal and a text editor in one window, on one tab strip and one set of keys, so you stop alt-tabbing.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
United States
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Native GPU-accelerated terminal with keyboard-first design, agent compatibility, Unicode, ligatures, inline images, true color, tabs, panes, splits, session recovery, rich color schemes, real-time notifications, fuzzy search, custom layouts, and quick navigation.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
China
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Terminal emulator which mimics the look and feel of the old cathode tube screens, designed for eye-candy with lots of graphic options.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Linux
Italy- EU
97 iTerm alternativesiTerm is a full featured terminal emulation program written for OS X using Cocoa. We are aiming at providing users with best command line experience under OS X. The letter i represents a native Apple look and feel of the program interface, and an emphasis on complete...
Platforms
- Mac
- United States
Automatically tiles and organizes all terminal sessions in one native macOS window, scaling layouts from fullscreen to grid, grouping sessions by project with color-coding, enabling instant filtering, supporting any CLI tool, and requiring zero configuration.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
Australia
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
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
- Xfce
- Global
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- GNOME
- Linux Mobile
- United States
Ghostel is a terminal emulator for Emacs powered by libghostty-vt, the VT engine behind the Ghostty terminal.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
- Mac
- FreeBSD
- BSD
- Germany
- EU
54 Muxy alternativesMuxy is a lightweight, memory-efficient terminal app for macOS, built with SwiftUI and libghostty. It offers a project-based workflow to organize terminals by project with persistent workspace state, vertical tabs with drag-and-drop reordering, pinning, and renaming, as well as...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Germany
- EU
