Yakuake Alternatives

Apps similar to Yakuake include Ghostty, which is free and open source. Other options are Termux, Windows Terminal, MobaXterm and ConEmu. You're spoiled for choice with Terminal Emulators like Yakuake: we list more than 50 alternatives for Linux, Mac, Windows, Android and the web.

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  1. Muxy icon
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    Muxy 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...

    54 Muxy alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
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  2. ddterm icon
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    Drop down terminal extension for the Gnome desktop environment.

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    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
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  3. yeahconsole icon
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    YeahConsole turns an xterm into a gamelike console. This means it will slide down from top of your screen if you hit a shortcut key. (You will need xterm version 168 or higher to make this happen).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
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  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

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    • Android
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  5.  Like

    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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  6. Rumus icon
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    An AI-native terminal for developers. Manage servers, automate commands, and run agentic tasks — all in one beautifully designed, cross-platform workspace.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  7. Termio icon
     1 like

    Modern terminal and SSH manager with AI, workspaces, and full privacy.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
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  8. devglow icon
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    devglow is a macOS menu bar app that replaces terminal tabs, pm2, and port killer utilities for local development. It lets you register any shell command — whether it's Next.js, Vite, Hugo, Rails, Flask, Cargo, Go, or Docker — and manage everything from a single interface.

    53 devglow alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
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  9. Rio Terminal icon
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    Hardware-accelerated terminal emulator using WebGPU for smooth high frame rates, customizable GPU usage, asynchronous Rust foundation, efficient redux-based rendering, WebAssembly extensibility for tab systems, and both desktop and browser support.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • FreeBSD
    • Flatpak
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  10. BossTerm icon
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    Pure Kotlin terminal emulator. Works with SSH and PTY.

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Homebrew
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  11. FireCMD icon
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    FireCMD command shell has features like recursive aliases, command substitution using files, HTML and CSS support, which makes it a next generation command shell. It also remembers command history and last working directory for next session.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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