List of terminal emulators

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!Name

!Type

!Connectivity

!User Interface

!Operating System

!Description

|Character

|SSH 1 & 2, Telnet, TAPI dialup, direct COM port

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|Windows

|Commercial software terminal client for Windows

|Character

|Local

|X11, Wayland

|Unix-based, Windows

|Lightweight, GPU accelerated terminal emulator

|Character

|Serial port, SSH, Telnet

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|Windows

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|Character

|Serial port

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|Commodore 64

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|Character

|Local

|

|Windows

|Local terminal window that can host console application either for WinAPI or Unix PTY

|Character

|Local, Telnet

|Avkon, Qt

|Symbian S60

|Free and open-source terminal emulator for Symbian 9.1 - 9.4, developed by Accenture.{{Cite web |date=2018-01-22 |title=fshell |url=https://sourceforge.net/projects/fshell/ |access-date=2024-08-12 |website=SourceForge |language=en}} Has a desktop app, Muxcons, to remotely control a smartphone through fshell.{{Cite web |date=2013-05-16 |title=Muxcons |url=https://sourceforge.net/projects/muxcons/ |access-date=2024-08-12 |website=SourceForge |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Introducing muxcons |url=https://www.qt.io/blog/2011/04/15/introducing-muxcons |access-date=2024-08-12 |website=www.qt.io |language=en}}

|Character

|Local

|X11, Wayland

|Unix-based

|Default terminal for GNOME with native Wayland support

|Character

|Local

|X11, Wayland

|Unix-based

|Drop-down terminal for GNOME

|Character

|Serial port

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|Windows

|

|Character

|Serial port

|

|Windows XP or earlier

|

|Block

|tn3270, tn5250

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|Windows

|3270 emulator, 5250 emulator

|Character

|Local

|

|macOS

|Open-source terminal specifically for macOS

|Character

|Local, serial port, SSH, rlogin, Telnet, raw TCP socket, TAPI and direct dialup, named pipe, Pathworks32 LAT, CTERM{{Citation |last=Goodwin |first=David |title=davidrg/ckwin |date=2024-10-28 |url=https://github.com/davidrg/ckwin/ |access-date=2024-10-29}}

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|Windows, IBM OS/2

|Formerly a commercial product{{cite web |title=C-Kermit Project |url=https://www.kermitproject.org/k95.html}} of Columbia University, now open-source{{Citation |last=Goodwin |first=David |title=davidrg/ckwin |date=2025-01-27 |url=https://github.com/davidrg/ckwin |access-date=2025-01-27}}

|Character

|Local

|X11, Wayland, Quartz

|Unix-based

|GPU accelerated, with tabs, tiling, image viewing, interactive unicode character input

|Character

|Local

|X11, Wayland

|Unix-based

|Default terminal for KDE. GPU accelerated, with tabs, tiling, image viewing

|Character

|Local

|CLI

|Linux

|Implements a subset of the VT102 and ECMA-48/ISO 6429/ANSI X3.64 escape sequences

|Character

|Serial port

|

|Classic Mac OS

|

|Character

|Serial port

|

|Classic Mac OS, macOS

|

|Character

|Local

|

|Windows

| Used for Cygwin, MSYS2, as well as the Windows port of Git

|Character

|Serial port

|

|Amiga

|

|Character

|Serial port, Telnet ?

|

|Windows

|Free terminal emulator for Windows from Moxa, Inc.

|Character

|Serial port, SSH, rlogin, Telnet, raw TCP socket

|

|Linux, macOS, ReactOS, Symbian S60,{{Cite web |date=2018-01-22 |title=PuTTY for Symbian OS |url=https://sourceforge.net/projects/s2putty/ |access-date=2024-08-12 |website=SourceForge |language=en}} Windows

|Free and open-source terminal emulator, serial console, and file transfer application

|Character

|Serial port

|

|Windows

|Terminal emulator for MS-DOS and WIndows 95 (discontinued since 1997)

|Character

|Serial port

|

|Classic Mac OS

|Terminal emulator for Macintosh (discontinued since 1989)

|Character, block

|Serial port, SSH, Telnet, tn3270, tn5250, SNA

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|Windows

|Rumba and allows users to connect to legacy systems (typically a mainframe)

|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

|Character

|SSH, Telnet

|

|Linux, macOS, Windows

|Commercial terminal emulator for Linux, macOS and Windows

|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

|Character

|Serial port

|

|MS-DOS

|Terminal emulator for MS-DOS (discontinued since 1997)

|Character

|Serial port, SSH 1 & 2, Telnet, xmodem

|

|Windows

|Open-source, free, software terminal emulator for Windows

|Character

|Local

|

|macOS

|The default terminal application on macOS

|Character

|Serial port

|

|MS-DOS

|Terminal emulator for MS-DOS (discontinued since 1992)

|Character

|

|X11, Wayland

|Unix-based

|Written in Java with many novel or experimental features

|Character

|Local

|

|Android

|An open source terminal emulater that provides a Linux userland to Android

|Character

|Local

|X11, Wayland

|Unix-based

|GTK drop-down terminal

|Character

|Local

|X11, Wayland

|Unix-based

|GTK3 tiling terminal emulator

|Block and character

|tn3270, tn5250, Telnet

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|Windows

|Terminal emulator for Windows

|Character

|Local

|

|Linux, macOS, Windows

|Terminal with modern IDE, AI assistance, and collaborative command sharing

|Character

|Local

|

|Windows

|Windows command line terminal

|Character

|Local

|

|Windows

|Default terminal on Windows

|Block

|tn3270

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|Linux, macOS, Windows

|Multi-platform open-source terminal emulator available for macOS, Linux and Windows

|Character

|Local

|X11, Wayland

|Unix-based

|Default terminal for Xfce with drop-down support

|Character

|Local

|X11, Wayland

|Unix-based

|The standard terminal for X11; default terminal when X11.app starts on macOS

|Character

|Serial port, SSH, rlogin, Telnet, ISDN, TAPI

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|macOS, Windows, IBM OS/2

|Commercial terminal emulator for Windows, macOS and OS/S

|Character

|Serial port

|

|Classic Mac OS, macOS

|Shareware serial terminal emulator for macOS