Name
Type
Connectivity
User Interface
Operating System
Description
AbsoluteTelnet Character SSH 1 & 2, Telnet , TAPI dialup, direct COM port Windows Commercial software terminal client for Windows
Alacritty Character Local
X11 , Wayland Unix-based, Windows
Lightweight, GPU accelerated terminal emulator
AlphaCom Character Serial port , SSH , Telnet Windows
CBterm/C64 Character Serial port Commodore 64
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 Free and open-source terminal emulator for Symbian 9.1 - 9.4, developed by Accenture .[ 1] [ 2] [ 3]
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 95 Character Local, serial port , SSH , rlogin , Telnet , raw TCP socket , TAPI and direct dialup, named pipe , Pathworks32 LAT , CTERM[ 4]
Windows , IBM OS/2 Formerly a commercial product[ 5] Columbia University , now open-source[ 6]
kitty Character Local
X11 , Wayland , Quartz Unix-based
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
PComm
Character Serial port , Telnet ?Windows Free terminal emulator for Windows from Moxa, Inc.
PuTTY Character Serial port , SSH , rlogin , Telnet , raw TCP socket Linux , macOS , ReactOS , Symbian S60 ,[ 7] Windows 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 , SSH , Telnet , 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 SSH , Telnet Linux , macOS , Windows Commercial terminal emulator for Linux, macOS and Windows
SyncTERM Character Serial port , SSH , rlogin , Telnet , raw TCP socket 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 , SSH 1 & 2, Telnet , xmodem Windows Open-source , free, software terminal emulator for Windows
Terminal Character Local
macOS The default terminal application on macOS
Terminate
Character Serial port MS-DOS Terminal emulator for MS-DOS (discontinued since 1992)[ 8] [ 9]
Terminator Character X11 , Wayland Unix-based
Written in Java with many novel or experimental features
Termux Character Local
Android An open source terminal emulater that provides a Linux userland to Android
Tilda
Character Local
X11 , Wayland Unix-based
GTK drop-down terminal
Tilix Character Local
X11 , Wayland Unix-based
GTK3 tiling terminal emulator
TN3270 Plus Block and character tn3270 , tn5250 , Telnet Windows Terminal emulator for Windows
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
x3270
Block tn3270 Linux , macOS , Windows Multi-platform 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 [ citation needed ] Unix-based
The standard terminal for X11; default terminal when X11.app starts on macOS
ZOC Character Serial port , SSH , rlogin , Telnet , ISDN , TAPI macOS , Windows , IBM OS/2 Commercial terminal emulator for Windows, macOS and OS/2
ZTerm Character Serial port Classic Mac OS , macOS Shareware serial terminal emulator for macOS