List of terminal emulators
This is a list of notable terminal emulators. Most used terminal emulators on Linux and Unix-like systems are GNOME Terminal on GNOME and GTK-based environments, Konsole on KDE, and xfce4-terminal on Xfce as well as xterm.
List
Name
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Type
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Connectivity
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User Interface
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Operating System
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Description
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AbsoluteTelnet
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Character
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SSH 1 & 2, Telnet, TAPI dialup, direct COM port
|
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Windows
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Commercial software terminal client for Windows
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Alacritty
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Character
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Local
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X11, Wayland
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Unix-based, Windows
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Lightweight, GPU accelerated terminal emulator
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AlphaCom
|
Character
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Serial port, SSH, Telnet
|
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Windows
|
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CBterm/C64
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Character
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Serial port
|
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Commodore 64
|
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ConEmu
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Character
|
Local
|
|
Windows
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Local terminal window that can host console application either for WinAPI or Unix PTY
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fshell
|
Character
|
Local, Telnet
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Avkon, Qt
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Symbian S60
|
Free and open-source terminal emulator for Symbian 9.1 - 9.4, developed by Accenture.[1] Has a desktop app, Muxcons, to remotely control a smartphone through fshell.[2][3]
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GNOME Terminal
|
Character
|
Local
|
X11, Wayland
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Unix-based
|
Default terminal for GNOME with native Wayland support
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guake
|
Character
|
Local
|
X11, Wayland
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Unix-based
|
Drop-down terminal for GNOME
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HyperACCESS
|
Character
|
Serial port
|
|
Windows
|
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HyperTerminal
|
Character
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Serial port
|
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Windows XP or earlier
|
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IBM Personal Communications
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Block
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tn3270, tn5250
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Windows
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3270 emulator, 5250 emulator
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iTerm2
|
Character
|
Local
|
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macOS
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Open-source terminal specifically for macOS
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Kermit 95
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Character
|
Local, serial port, SSH, rlogin, Telnet, raw TCP socket, TAPI and direct dialup, named pipe, Pathworks32 LAT, CTERM[4]
|
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Windows, IBM OS/2
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Formerly a commercial product[5] of Columbia University, now open-source[6]
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kitty
|
Character
|
Local
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X11, Wayland, Quartz
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Unix-based
|
GPU accelerated, with tabs, tiling, image viewing, interactive unicode character input
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konsole
|
Character
|
Local
|
X11, Wayland
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Unix-based
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Default terminal for KDE. GPU accelerated, with tabs, tiling, image viewing
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Linux console
|
Character
|
Local
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CLI
|
Linux
|
Implements a subset of the VT102 and ECMA-48/ISO 6429/ANSI X3.64 escape sequences
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MacTerminal
|
Character
|
Serial port
|
|
Classic Mac OS
|
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MacWise
|
Character
|
Serial port
|
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Classic Mac OS, macOS
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mintty
|
Character
|
Local
|
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Windows
|
Used for Cygwin, MSYS2, as well as the Windows port of Git
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NComm
|
Character
|
Serial port
|
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Amiga
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PComm
|
Character
|
Serial port, Telnet ?
|
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Windows
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Free terminal emulator for Windows from Moxa, Inc.
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PuTTY
|
Character
|
Serial port, SSH, rlogin, Telnet, raw TCP socket
|
|
Linux, macOS, ReactOS, Symbian S60,[7] Windows
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Free and open-source terminal emulator, serial console, and file transfer application
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Qmodem Pro
|
Character
|
Serial port
|
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Windows
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Terminal emulator for MS-DOS and WIndows 95 (discontinued since 1997)
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Red Ryder
|
Character
|
Serial port
|
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Classic Mac OS
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Terminal emulator for Macintosh (discontinued since 1989)
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RUMBA
|
Character, block
|
Serial port, SSH, Telnet, tn3270, tn5250, SNA
|
|
Windows
|
Rumba and allows users to connect to legacy systems (typically a mainframe)
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rxvt
|
Character
|
Local
|
X11, Wayland
|
Unix-based
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Rxvt is a terminal emulator for the X Window System, and in the form of a Cygwin port, for Windows
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SecureCRT
|
Character
|
SSH, Telnet
|
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Linux, macOS, Windows
|
Commercial terminal emulator for Linux, macOS and Windows
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SyncTERM
|
Character
|
Serial port, SSH, rlogin, Telnet, raw TCP socket
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CLI (curses), SDL, X11
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Linux, macOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Windows
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Terminal program for Windows, Linux, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Mac OS X, and FreeBSD
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Telix
|
Character
|
Serial port
|
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MS-DOS
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Terminal emulator for MS-DOS (discontinued since 1997)
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Tera Term
|
Character
|
Serial port, SSH 1 & 2, Telnet, xmodem
|
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Windows
|
Open-source, free, software terminal emulator for Windows
|
Terminal
|
Character
|
Local
|
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macOS
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The default terminal application on macOS
|
Terminate
|
Character
|
Serial port
|
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MS-DOS
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Terminal emulator for MS-DOS (discontinued since 1992)
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Terminator
|
Character
|
|
X11, Wayland
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Unix-based
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Written in Java with many novel or experimental features
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Termux
|
Character
|
Local
|
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Android
|
An open source terminal emulater that provides a Linux userland to Android
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Tilda
|
Character
|
Local
|
X11, Wayland
|
Unix-based
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GTK drop-down terminal
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Tilix
|
Character
|
Local
|
X11, Wayland
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Unix-based
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GTK3 tiling terminal emulator
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TN3270 Plus
|
Block and character
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tn3270, tn5250, Telnet
|
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Windows
|
Terminal emulator for Windows
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Warp
|
Character
|
Local
|
|
Linux, macOS, Windows
|
Terminal with modern IDE, AI assistance, and collaborative command sharing
|
Windows Console
|
Character
|
Local
|
|
Windows
|
Windows command line terminal
|
Windows Terminal
|
Character
|
Local
|
|
Windows
|
Default terminal on Windows
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x3270
|
Block
|
tn3270
|
|
Linux, macOS, Windows
|
Multi-platform open-source terminal emulator available for macOS, Linux and Windows
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xfce4-terminal
|
Character
|
Local
|
X11, Wayland
|
Unix-based
|
Default terminal for Xfce with drop-down support
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xterm
|
Character
|
Local
|
X11, Wayland
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Unix-based
|
The standard terminal for X11; default terminal when X11.app starts on macOS
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ZOC
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Character
|
Serial port, SSH, rlogin, Telnet, ISDN, TAPI
|
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macOS, Windows, IBM OS/2
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Commercial terminal emulator for Windows, macOS and OS/S
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ZTerm
|
Character
|
Serial port
|
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Classic Mac OS, macOS
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Shareware serial terminal emulator for macOS
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See also
References
External links
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