The Best 36 xterm 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

  • ST - Simple Terminal

    st is a simple terminal implementation for x. what is wrong with xterm ? xterm is bloated and unmaintainable.

    Free Open Source Linux BSD

  • LilyTerm

    LilyTerm: light, but functional terminal emulator LilyTerm is a terminal emulator based off of libvte that aims to be fast and lightweight, Licensed under GPLv3. ...

    Free Linux

  • RXVT

    RXVT –our extended virtual terminal– is a terminal emulator for X11. It is a popular replacement for the standard ‘xterm’.

    Free Open Source Windows 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

  • ROXTerm

    ROXTerm: a full-featured VTE terminal emulator.

    Free Open Source Linux BSD

  • svte

    svte is a terminal that is flexible and has a small codebase. Its aim is to be lightweight and fast, while providing nice integration with a modern Linux environment....

    Free Open Source Linux

  • evilvte

    VTE based, highly customizable terminal emulator. Features: tabs, tabbar autohide, right click to switch encoding, supports almost all VTE features, build-time...

    Free Open Source Linux

  • 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

  • mrxvt

    Based on rxvt. Tabbed interface. Very lightweight. Few dependencies. Only drawback is poor unicode support (theres an SVN branch with working but slightly buggy support)

    Free Open Source Linux

  • 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

  • FbTerm

    FbTerm is a fast terminal emulator for linux with frame buffer device or VESA video card. Features include: mostly as fast as terminal of linux kernel while...

    Free Open Source Linux

  • 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

  • TTwin 4

    TTWin - Windows® terminal emulation is Turbosoft's premier terminal emulation solution for Windows platforms. You can download a free TTWin trial version online.

    Commercial Windows