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.
Name | Type | Connectivity | User Interface | Operating System | Description |
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AbsoluteTelnet | Character | Telnet, SSH 1 and 2, TAPI Dialup and direct COM port | Windows | ||
Alacritty | Character | Local | X11, Wayland | Unix-based, Windows | lightweight, GPU accelerated X11 terminal emulator |
AlphaCom | Character | Telnet, SSH, and RS-232/modem | Windows | ||
CBterm/C64 | Character | Serial port | Commodore 64 | ||
ConEmu | Character | Local | Windows | local terminal window that can host console application developed either for WinAPI (cmd, powershell, far) or Unix PTY (cygwin, msys, wsl bash) | |
Crosstalk | Character | Serial port | MS-DOS | ||
Cygwin terminal | Character | Local | Windows | ||
Eicon Aviva | Character, block | tn3270, tn5250, Telnet, SSH, SNA | Windows | 3270 emulator, 5250 emulator | |
GNOME Terminal | Character | Local | X11, Wayland | Unix-based | default terminal for GNOME with native Wayland support |
guake | Character | Local | X11, Wayland | Unix-based | drop-down terminal for GNOME |
HyperACCESS | Character | Serial port | Windows | ||
HyperTerminal | Character | Serial port | Windows XP or earlier | ||
IBM Personal Communications | Block | tn3270, tn5250 | Windows | 3270 emulator, 5250 emulator | |
iTerm2 | Character | Local | macOS | open-source terminal specifically for macOS | |
Kermit | Character | Serial port | MS-DOS | ||
Kermit 95 | Character | Serial port | Windows, IBM OS/2 | ||
kitty | Character | Local | X11, Wayland, Quartz | Unix-based, macOS | GPU accelerated, with tabs, tiling, image viewing, interactive unicode character input |
konsole | Character | Local | X11, Wayland | Unix-based | default terminal for KDE. GPU accelerated, with tabs, tiling, image viewing, interactive unicode character input |
Linux console | Character | Local | CLI | Linux | implements a subset of the VT102 and ECMA-48/ISO 6429/ANSI X3.64 escape sequences. |
MacTerminal | Character | Serial port | Classic Mac OS | ||
MacWise | Character | Serial port | Classic Mac OS, macOS | ||
mintty | Character | Local | Windows | ||
NComm | Character | Serial port | Amiga | ||
ProComm | Character | Serial port | MS-DOS | ||
Procomm Plus | Character | Serial port | Windows | ||
PuTTY | Character | Serial port, Telnet, rlogin, SSH, and raw socket connection | Windows, macOS, ReactOS, Linux | ||
Qmodem Pro | Character | Serial port | Windows | ||
Red Ryder | Character | Serial port | Classic Mac OS | ||
RUMBA | Character, block | Serial port, Telnet, SSH, tn3270, tn5250, SNA | Windows | Did older versions support coax/twinax? | |
rxvt | Character | Local | X11, Wayland | Unix-based |
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SecureCRT | Character | Telnet, SSH | macOS, Windows | ||
SyncTERM | Character | raw TCP socket, rlogin, SSH, Serial port, Telnet | CLI (curses), SDL, X11 | Linux, macOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Windows | |
Telix | Character | Serial port | MS-DOS | ||
Tera Term | Character | Serial port, Telnet, and SSH 1 & 2 | Windows | ||
Terminal | Character | Local | macOS | default macOS terminal | |
Terminate | Character | Serial port | MS-DOS | ||
Terminator | Character | X11, Wayland | Unix-based | written in Java with many novel or experimental features | |
Termux | Character | Local | Android | ||
Tilda | Character | Local | X11, Wayland | Unix-based | a drop-down terminal |
Tilix | Character | Local | X11, Wayland | Unix-based | GTK3 tiling terminal emulator |
tn5250 | Block | tn5250 | ? | 5250 emulator | |
TN3270 Plus | Block | tn3270 | Windows | ||
Tn5250j | Block | tn5250 | ? | ||
TtyEmulator | Character | Serial line, Telnet, rlogin, SSH, and raw TCP | Windows | ||
Warp | Character | Local | macOS | terminal with modern IDE, AI assistance, and collaborative command sharing | |
Windows Console | Character | Local | Windows | Windows command line terminal | |
Windows Terminal | Character | Local | Windows | ||
x3270 | Block | tn3270 | Multi-platform | open-source | |
xfce4-terminal | Character | Local | X11, Wayland | Unix-based | default terminal for Xfce with drop-down support |
xterm | Character | Local | X11, Wayland | Unix-based | standard terminal for X11; default terminal when X11.app starts on macOS |
Yakuake | Character | Local | X11, Wayland | Unix-based | (Yet Another Kuake) a drop-down terminal for KDE |
ZOC | Character | Serial port, Telnet, SSH 1 and 2, ISDN, TAPI, Rlogin | Windows, IBM OS/2, macOS | ||
ZTerm | Character | Serial line | macOS, Classic Mac OS | serial line terminal |
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List of terminal emulators.
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