The Best 36 xterm Alternatives

  • GNOME Terminal icon

    GNOME Terminal

    GNOME Terminal is a terminal emulator for the GNOME desktop environment written by Havoc Pennington and others. Terminal emulators allow users to execute commands using a real UNIX shell while remaining on their graphical desktop.[

    Free Open Source Linux BSD

  • Terminator icon

    Terminator

    Terminator, multiple terminals in one window. The goal of this project is to produce a useful tool for arranging terminals. It is inspired by programs such as gnome-multi-term, quadkonsole, etc.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux BSD

    Function Key Shortcuts Split windows
  • Terminal icon

    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

  • Konsole icon

    Konsole

    Konsole is a free terminal emulator which is part of KDE Software Compilation.

    Free Open Source Linux BSD

  • tilda icon

    tilda

    Tilda is a Linux terminal taking after the likeness of many classic terminals from first person shooter games, Quake, Doom and Half-Life to name a few, where the terminal has no border and is hidden from the desktop till a key or keys is...

    Free Open Source Linux BSD

  • rxvt-unicode icon

    rxvt-unicode

    Rxvt-unicode is a highly customizable terminal emulator forked from rxvt. Commonly known as urxvt, rxvt-unicode can be daemonized to run clients within a single process in order to minimize the use of system resources.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux

  • Xfce-Terminal icon

    Xfce-Terminal

    Terminal is a modern terminal emulator for the Unix/Linux desktop - primarily for the Xfce desktop environment.

    Free Open Source Linux BSD Xfce

  • iTerm icon

    iTerm

    iTerm is a full featured terminal emulation program written for OS X using Cocoa.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X

  • Cool Retro Term icon

    Cool Retro Term

    Terminal emulator which mimics the look and feel of the old cathode tube screens, designed for eye-candy with lots of graphic options.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux

  • LXTerminal icon

    LXTerminal

    LXTerminal is the standard terminal emulator of LXDE. The terminal is a desktop-independent VTE-based terminal emulator for LXDE without any unnecessary dependency. LXTerminal supports multiple tabs.

    Free Open Source Linux BSD

  • Terminology icon

    Terminology

    Terminology is a terminal emulator for e17. What does it do? It emulates a slightly extended vt100 with some extensions and bling thrown in. Most escapes supported by xterm, rxvt etc.

    Free Open Source Linux BSD

  • Tilix icon

    Tilix

    Tilix is a tiling terminal emulator which uses the VTE GTK+ 3 widget with the following features: - Layout terminals in any fashion by splitting them horizontally or...

    Free Open Source Linux

  • upterm icon

    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

  • Pantheon Terminal icon

    Pantheon Terminal

    A super lightweight, beautiful, and simple terminal. It's designed to be setup with sane defaults and little to no configuration. It's just a terminal, nothing...

    Free Open Source Linux

  • Termius icon

    Termius

    Powerful iOS, Android, Desktop (Chrome) SSH client.

    Freemium

  • MacTerm icon

    MacTerm

    MacTerm (was MacTelnet) on OS X is now a complete replacement for Terminal, allowing access to both local and remote applications.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X