The Best 29 Cool Retro Term Alternatives

  • Sakura

    sakura is a terminal emulator based on GTK and VTE. It's a terminal emulator with few dependencies, so you don't need a full GNOME desktop installed to have a...

    Free Open Source Linux BSD

  • Alacritty

    Alacritty is a blazing fast, GPU accelerated terminal emulator. It’s written in Rust and uses OpenGL for rendering to be the fastest terminal emulator available....

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux

  • Blink Shell

    Blink Shell is the professional, desktop-grade terminal emulator for iOS. It's a full-featured and highly configurable open-source terminal that can be compiled from...

    Commercial

  • Stjerm

    Stjerm is a roll-down, quake-like terminal emulator. It's window is shown with a key shortcut. Stjerm is very minimalistic and works well with Compiz window manager.

    Free Open Source Linux

  • yeahconsole

    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...

    Free Open Source Linux BSD

  • Extraterm

    Extraterm is more than just a traditional terminal emulator. It provides a toolbox for working with your terminal and command line applications, allowing you to capture...

    Free Open Source Windows Linux Mac Cygwin

  • Cathode

    Cathode is a fully customizable terminal app with a look inspired by classic computers.

    Commercial

  • Qonsole

    "A Quake-like Console Emulator." Proudly under the MIT License.

    Free Open Source Windows

  • MATE Terminal

    mate terminal is a terminal emulator for the mate desktop environment. terminal emulators allow users to execute commands using a...

    Free Open Source Linux BSD FreeBSD OpenIndiana GhostBSD