Terminal Emulators
Terminal emulators, derived from physical terminals, are software programs that provide a text-based interface to interact with a computer's shell.
They have evolved to support advanced features like tabs, split panes, and customization, allowing users to efficiently manage multiple sessions and enhance productivity.
Below is a list of terminal emulators for different platforms.
Looking to compare terminals?
Alacritty
A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.
Black Box
An elegant and customizable terminal for GNOME.
ConEmu
Customizable Windows terminal with tabs, splits, quake-style, hotkeys and more.
Contour Terminal
Modern C++ Terminal Emulator.
Cool Retro Term
A good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display.
Foot
A fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator.
Ghostty
Fast, native, feature-rich terminal emulator pushing modern features.
Hyper
A terminal built on web technologies.
iTerm2
A terminal emulator for Mac OS X that does amazing things.
Kitty
Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal.
Konsole
A powerful and customizable terminal emulator.
Rio Terminal
A hardware-accelerated GPU terminal emulator focusing to run in desktops and browsers.
Suckless Terminal (st)
st is a simple terminal implementation for X.
Tabby
A terminal for a more modern age.
Terminal.app
An app for advanced users and developers with direct CLI communication to macOS.
Tilix
A tiling terminal emulator for Linux using GTK+3.
Warp Terminal
Your terminal, reimagined with AI.
Wave Terminal
An open-source, cross-platform terminal for seamless workflows.
Wezterm
A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer.
Windows Terminal
The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same place.
xfce4-terminal
A modern terminal emulator
xterm
A terminal emulator for the X Window System.
Cathode
Vintage terminal emulator.
