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iTerm2

A terminal emulator for macOS that does amazing things.

Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to iTerm2

ConEmu wezterm Homebrew Hyper Tabby.sh Kitty terminal mintty Fig Terminal Visual Studio Code tmux

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to iTerm2 are ConEmu, wezterm, and Homebrew. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.
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    ConEmu-Maximus5 is a full-featured local terminal for Windows devs, admins and users. Get better console window with tabs, splits, Quake style, copy+paste, DosBox and PuTTY integration, and much more.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #SSH #Server Management #Terminal Tools 18 social mentions

  2. GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer made with Rust.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #SSH #Server Management #Terminal Tools 42 social mentions

  3. The missing package manager for macOS
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Package Manager #Front End Package Manager #Windows Tools 877 social mentions

  4. 4
    Extensible, cross-platform terminal built on open web standards.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Terminal Tools #Emulators #Terminal 42 social mentions

  5. Tabby is a free and open source SSH, local and Telnet terminal with everything you'll ever need.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Terminal Tools #Command Line Tools #DevOps Tools 17 social mentions

  6. Super fast, GPU and OpenGL based terminal emulator with tiling support
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #SSH #Terminal Tools #Server Management 88 social mentions

  7. 7
    Mintty is a terminal emulator for Cygwin that is based on code from PuTTY 0.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #SSH #Server Management #Terminal Tools

  8. Fig adds VSCode-style autocomplete to your existing terminal. Move faster with Fig.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #SSH #Server Management #Terminal Tools 37 social mentions

  9. Build and debug modern web and cloud applications, by Microsoft
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 1012 social mentions

  10. 10
    tmux is a terminal multiplexer: it enables a number of terminals (or windows), each running a...
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #SSH #Terminal Tools #Server Management 26 social mentions

  11. electerm is a terminal/ssh/sftp client(linux, mac, win) based on electron/ssh2/node-pty/xterm/antd and many other libs
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #SSH #Server Management #Terminal Tools

  12. Window management app based on Spectacle, written in Swift.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Mac Tools #Window Manager #Developer Tools 447 social mentions

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