The Best 16 Prompt Alternatives

  • Terminal

    The built in terminal window on Mac OS. Totally not bloated, does what it should in a 'lean but mean' way.

    Free Mac OS X

  • Chrome Secure Shell

    Secure Shell is an xterm-compatible terminal emulator and stand-alone ssh client for Chrome. It uses Native-Client to connect directly to ssh servers without the need for external proxies.

    Free Mac OS X Windows Linux Chrome OS Chrome

  • upterm

    A terminal emulator for the 21st century. (formerly) Black Screen is a terminal emulator and interactive shell with auto-completion.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux Electron / Atom Shell

  • MobileTerminal

    A terminal emulator for your jailbroken iPhone. With this you can be the daring system administrator, always ready for the action. MobileTerminal is available in...

    Free iPhone

  • MidpSSH

    MidpSSH is an SSH and Telnet client for MIDP 1.0 / 2.0 (J2ME) devices such as Java(tm)-capable cellphones and other mobile devices.

    Free Open Source Java Mobile

  • xCute

    Sending commands to a server can be as simple as sending a text message to a friend. Remote SSH asynchronous execution. Results displayed back. Persistent host...

    Commercial

  • CLIX

    CLIX ('command line interface for OS X') makes it easy to harness the power of Unix. It becomes both a fish to buy and a series of lessons in how to fish and...

    Free Mac OS X

  • csshX

    csshX is a tool to allow simultaneous control of multiple SSH sessions. It will attempt to create an SSH session to each remote host in separate Terminal.app windows. A...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X

  • RapidSSH

    Rapid SSH is the powerful and complete IP terminal emulator for iPad and iPhone - supports SSHv1, v2, SSH Agent, Telnet, Raw, fully scriptable, Dropbox.com...

    Commercial iPhone iPad

  • newTerm

    newTerm is the latest of a series of terminal products for the engineer needing a full function terminal. The terminal supports the complete ANSI, VT100, TVI50, WYSE60...

    Commercial

  • Better Terminal Emulator Pro

    Harness the native Linux command-line potential of Android with this Terminal. BTEP is an advanced Terminal Emulator and SSH client for your phone or tablet. Unleash...

    Commercial Android