| Name
|
Type
|
Connectivity
|
User Interface
|
Operating System
|
Description
|
| AbsoluteTelnet
|
Character
|
Telnet, SSH 1 and 2, TAPI Dialup and direct COM port
|
|
Windows
|
AbsoluteTelnet is a commercial software terminal client for Windows
|
| Alacritty
|
Character
|
Local
|
X11, Wayland
|
Unix-based, Windows
|
Lightweight, GPU accelerated terminal emulator
|
| AlphaCom
|
Character
|
Telnet, SSH, and RS-232/modem
|
|
Windows
|
|
| CBterm/C64
|
Character
|
Serial port
|
|
Commodore 64
|
|
| C-Kermit for Windows and OS/2
|
Character
|
SSH, Telnet, rlogin, Local, raw socket connection, Serial port, TAPI and direct Dialup, Named Pipe, Pathworks32 LAT and CTERM
|
|
Windows, IBM OS/2
|
Formerly Kermit 95, successor of the Columbia.edu Kermit Project.
|
| ConEmu
|
Character
|
Local
|
|
Windows
|
Local terminal window that can host console application either for WinAPI or Unix PTY
|
| fshell
|
Character
|
Local, Telnet
|
Avkon, Qt
|
Symbian S60
|
fshell is a free and open-source terminal emulator for Symbian 9.1-9.4, developed by Accenture. Has a desktop app, Muxcons, to remotely control smartphone throw fshell.
|
| 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
|
| 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
|
| 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
|
Used for Cygwin, MSYS2, as well as the Windows port of Git
|
| NComm
|
Character
|
Serial port
|
|
Amiga
|
|
| OpenTTY
|
Character
|
Local
|
LCDUI
|
J2ME
|
OpenTTY is a free and open-source terminal emulator for feature phones and smartphones with J2ME support.
|
| PComm
|
Character
|
Serial port, Telnet ?
|
|
Windows
|
Moxa Inc free terminal emulator for Windows
|
| PuTTY
|
Character
|
Serial port, Telnet, rlogin, SSH, and raw socket connection
|
|
Windows, macOS, ReactOS, Linux, Symbian S60
|
PuTTY is a free and open-source terminal emulator, serial console and file transfer application.
|
| Qmodem Pro
|
Character
|
Serial port
|
|
Windows
|
Terminal emulator for MS-DOS and WIndows 95 (discontinued since 1997)
|
| Red Ryder
|
Character
|
Serial port
|
|
Classic Mac OS
|
Terminal emulator for Macintosh (discontinued since 1989)
|
| RUMBA
|
Character, block
|
Serial port, Telnet, SSH, tn3270, tn5250, SNA
|
|
Windows
|
Rumba and allows users to connect to legacy systems (typically a mainframe)
|
| rxvt
|
Character
|
Local
|
X11, Wayland
|
Unix-based
|
Rxvt is a terminal emulator for the X Window System, and in the form of a Cygwin port, for Windows
|
| SecureCRT
|
Character
|
Telnet, SSH
|
|
macOS, Windows
|
SecureCRT is a commercial terminal emulator for Linux, macOS and Windows
|
| SyncTERM
|
Character
|
raw TCP socket, rlogin, SSH, Serial port, Telnet
|
CLI (curses), SDL, X11
|
Linux, macOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Windows
|
Terminal program for Windows, Linux, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Mac OS X, and FreeBSD
|
| Telix
|
Character
|
Serial port
|
|
MS-DOS
|
Terminal emulator for MS-DOS (discontinued since 1997)
|
| Tera Term
|
Character
|
Serial port, Telnet, xmodem and SSH 1 & 2
|
|
Windows
|
Tera Term is an open-source, free, software terminal emulator for Windows
|
| Terminal
|
Character
|
Local
|
|
macOS
|
This is the default terminal application on macOS
|
| Terminate
|
Character
|
Serial port
|
|
MS-DOS
|
Terminal emulator for MS-DOS (discontinued since 1992)
|
| 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 GTK drop-down terminal
|
| Tilix
|
Character
|
Local
|
X11, Wayland
|
Unix-based
|
GTK3 tiling terminal emulator
|
| TN3270 Plus
|
Block and character
|
tn3270, tn5250,Telnet
|
|
Windows
|
TN3270-Plus is a terminal emulator for Windows
|
| Warp
|
Character
|
Local
|
|
Linux, macOS
|
terminal with modern IDE, AI assistance, and collaborative command sharing
|
| WezTerm
|
Character
|
Local
|
X11, Wayland
|
Unix-based, Windows
|
terminal emulator implemented in Rust
|
| Windows Console
|
Character
|
Local
|
|
Windows
|
Windows command line terminal
|
| Windows Terminal
|
Character
|
Local
|
|
Windows
|
Default terminal on Windows
|
| x3270
|
Block
|
tn3270
|
|
Multi-platform
|
x3270 is an open-source terminal emulator available for macOS, Linux and Windows
|
| xfce4-terminal
|
Character
|
Local
|
X11, Wayland
|
Unix-based
|
Default terminal for Xfce with drop-down support
|
| xterm
|
Character
|
Local
|
X11, Wayland
|
Unix-based
|
xterm is the standard terminal for X11; default terminal when X11.app starts on macOS
|
| ZOC
|
Character
|
Serial port, Telnet, SSH, ISDN, TAPI, Rlogin
|
|
Windows, IBM OS/2, macOS
|
ZOC is a commercial terminal emulator for Windows, macOS and OS/S
|
| ZTerm
|
Character
|
Serial line
|
|
macOS, Classic Mac OS
|
ZTerm is a shareware serial terminal emulator for macOS
|