Yakuake Alternatives
Yakuake is described as 'Drop-down (Quake-style) terminal emulator based on KDE Konsole technology. Its design was inspired from consoles in computer games such as Quake which slide down from the top of the screen when a key is pressed, and slide back up when the key is pressed again' and is a popular terminal emulator in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Yakuake for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD and Android apps. The best Yakuake alternative is Ghostty, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Yakuake are Termux, Windows Terminal, ConEmu and MobaXterm.
Alternatives list
RXVT –our extended virtual terminal– is a terminal emulator for X11. It is a popular replacement for the standard ‘xterm’.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
SmartPack-Kernel Manager is a heavily modified version of Kernel Adiutor developed by Willi Ye. All the credits go to the original developer, not only for his hard work on Kernel Adiutor, but also for being open to open-source community.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Android
- F-Droid
z/Scope is a multi-protocol, multi-host terminal emulator that provides access to multiple terminal-based applications in a way that is familiar to every user, using a modern tabbed interface.
z/Scope is the most popular Web-based alternative to Yakuake.
- z/Scope is Paid and Proprietary
A stupidly simple web-based terminal emulator, with common tools and Starship enabled (via Docker)!
DumbTerm is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Yakuake.
- DumbTerm is Free and Open Source
- DumbTerm is Privacy focused
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
- Wayland
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