Terminal Emulators for Mac

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    eDEX-UI

    eDEX-UI

    Customizable science fiction terminal emulator

    eDEX-UI is a fullscreen, cross-platform terminal emulator and system monitor designed with a customizable science fiction computer interface. Inspired by the TRON Legacy movie effects, eDEX-UI presents a futuristic look and feel while still being able to function as a full-featured terminal emulator. eDEX-UI offers advanced monitoring support for real-time systems and networks. It also offers full touchscreen support; a directory viewer; and for a completely unique sci-fi experience, advanced customization options via themes, on-screen keyboard layouts, CSS injections, and even optional sound effects. If you’re a science fiction fan or are just looking for something different in a terminal emulator, eDEX-UI will surely satisfy and give you a cool and unique experience.
    Downloads: 1,223 This Week
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    cool-retro-term

    cool-retro-term

    A good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display

    cool-retro-term is a terminal emulator which mimics the look and feel of the old cathode tube screens. It has been designed to be eye-candy, customizable, and reasonably lightweight. It uses the QML port of qtermwidget (Konsole). This terminal emulator works under Linux and macOS and requires Qt 5.2 or higher. Settings such as colors, fonts, and effects can be accessed via context menu. Just grab the latest AppImage from the release page and make it executable and run it. Make sure to install the dependencies first. Once you installed all dependencies (Qt is installed and in your path) you need to compile and run the application. Also, before the building process, remember to install Xcode and agree to the licence agreement.
    Downloads: 18 This Week
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    Alacritty

    Alacritty

    A cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator

    Alacritty is the fastest open source terminal emulator there is. How is it the fastest? With such a strong focus on simplicity and performance, Alacritty’s included features are very carefully considered, ensuring that it remains blazingly fast. It’s got a GPU for rendering that makes a whole lot of optimizations possible. In various benchmarked terminals, Alacritty has shown to be either faster, or way faster than others. Alacritty requires no additional setup, but still allows configuration of many aspects of the terminal. It supports Windows, macOS, Linux and BSD.
    Downloads: 12 This Week
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    EQEmulator Core Server

    EQEmulator Core Server

    Open Source Fan-Based EverQuest Emulator Server project

    EQEmulator is a custom completely from-scratch open source server implementation for EverQuest built mostly on C++.
    Downloads: 11 This Week
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    iTerm2

    iTerm2

    iTerm2 is a terminal emulator for Mac OS X that does amazing things

    iTerm2 is a modern, feature-rich terminal emulator for macOS. It extends and improves on the built-in Terminal app by offering advanced features like split panes, profiles, search, autocomplete, instant replay of terminal history, and much more. The repository contains the full source code (primarily in Objective-C / Swift) along with UI components, extensions, and support tools. It is released under the GPL-2.0 license. The project is quite mature (with many commits and contributors) and supports scripting and automation via an API (including a Python library in the api/library/python/iterm2 path). To build it, you can compile the Xcode project included, and there is documentation and instructions linked from the project’s README (note: issue tracking is handled via GitLab, as the repository refers issues there). The code is organized into modular parts (resources, UI, helpers, submodules), and the project is actively maintained with many releases and tags.
    Downloads: 9 This Week
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    Kitty

    Kitty

    Fast, Featureful, GPU based terminal emulator

    Kitty is a fast GPU based terminal editor that allows you to offload rendering to the GPU for lower system load. Kitty works on Linux and macOS and uses OpenGL for rendering which makes it portable to other platforms similar to Unix.
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    xterm.js

    xterm.js

    A terminal for the web

    xterm.js is a TypeScript-based front-end terminal emulation component that lets web applications embed fully-featured terminal interfaces. It powers in-browser terminals in tools like VS Code and browser IDEs. Xterm.js works with most terminal apps such as bash, vim, and tmux, including support for curses-based apps and mouse events. Xterm.js is really fast, it even includes a GPU-accelerated renderer. Xterm.js is not a terminal application that you can download and use on your computer. Xterm.js is not bash. Xterm.js can be connected to processes like bash and let you interact with them (provide input, receive output).
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    Qodem Terminal Emulator
    Qodem is a a terminal emulator that resembles the BBS-era Qmodem. Includes phonebook, scrollback, capture, X/Y/Zmodem, Kermit, ANSI (+ music) / Avatar / VT102 / Linux emulation, Unicode, and keyboard macros. Connects over serial, ssh, telnet, rlogin.
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    Downloads: 30 This Week
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    iTerm.app

    Project on hold. Try http://www.iterm2.com/ instead.

    iTerm is an enhanced terminal emulator program for MacOS X written in Objective-C. It features VT100/ANSI/XTERM emulation, full i18n support, full-screen, multi-tab and other convenient GUI features. This project is indefinitely on hold, and we recommend that you try http://www.iterm2.com/ instead.
    Downloads: 9 This Week
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    A nearly full options telnet 5250 terminal emulator. It includes a programmers API to improve 5250 panels by adding field popups, hints, ...
    Downloads: 11 This Week
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    Mrxvt is a multi-tabbed X terminal emulator based on rxvt. It is portable, lightweight and fast. It supports psuedo-transparency, background image (JPEG/PNG/XPM), tinting, NeXT/Rxvt/Xterm/SGI style scrollbar, multi-languages (CJK), XIM, freetype font...
    Downloads: 12 This Week
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    Bashish is a theme enviroment for text terminals. It can change colors, font, transparency and background image on a per-application basis. Additionally Bashish supports prompt changing on common shells such as bash, zsh and tcsh.
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    Downloads: 11 This Week
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    jexer

    jexer

    Jexer - Java Text User Interface Library

    Jexer is an open-source Text User Interface (TUI) designed to outwardly resemble the Turbo Vision library used by various Borland products.
    Downloads: 9 This Week
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    Rio

    Rio

    A hardware-accelerated GPU terminal emulator powered by WebGPU.

    Rio is a terminal application that’s built with Rust, WebGPU, Tokio runtime. It targets to have the best frame per second experience as long you want, but is also configurable to use as minimal from GPU. It also relies on Rust memory behavior, since Rust is a memory-safe language that employs The terminal renderer is based on redux state machine, lines that has not updated will not suffer a redraw. Looking for the minimal rendering process in most of the time. Rio is also designed to support WebAssembly runtime so in the future you will be able to define how a tab system will work with a WASM plugin written in your favorite language. Rio uses WGPU, which is an implementation of WebGPU for use outside of a browser and as backend for firefox’s WebGPU implementation. WebGPU allows for more efficient usage of modern GPU’s than WebGL. Applications using WPGU run natively on Vulkan, Metal, DirectX 11/12, and OpenGL ES; and browsers via WebAssembly on WebGPU and WebGL2.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    Script Echo Color

    Script Echo Color

    Terminal text colorizing and simplifies script coding.

    ScriptEchoColor simplifies Linux terminal text colorizing, formatting and several steps of script coding.
    Downloads: 6 This Week
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    Open Source port of the X Window System. XFree86 home page is at http://www.xfree86.org. Bugs may be reported here or at http://bugs.xfree86.org. Information about accessing the XFree86 CVS repository can be found at http://www.xfree86.org/cvs/.
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    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    Termux.apk

    Termux.apk

    Termux is an Android terminal emulator and Linux environment app.

    Secure. Access remote servers using the ssh client from OpenSSH. Termux combines standard packages with accurate terminal emulation in a beautiful open source solution. Feature packed. Take your pick between Bash, fish or Zsh and nano, Emacs or Vim. Grep through your SMS inbox. Access API endpoints with curl and use rsync to store backups of your contact list on a remote server. Customizable. Install what you want through the APT package management system known from Debian and Ubuntu GNU/Linux. Why not start with installing Git and syncing your dotfiles? Explorable. Have you ever sat on a bus and wondered exactly which arguments tar accepts? Packages available in Termux are the same as those on Mac and Linux - install man pages on your phone and read them in one session while experimenting with them in another. Portable - With batteries included. Can you imagine a more powerful yet elegant pocket calculator than a readline-powered Python console?
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    A gathering spot for terminal emulators written in RealBasic and specifically mud clients. As a starting point, we provide RB Terminal Emulation Suite, an extensible frame work for developing terminal emulator clients.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    The Java(tm) Telnet Applet is a fully featured telnet/SSH program that allows users to connect and login to remote hosts via the Internet or an Intranet using only their WWW Browser. It includes not only telnet-compliant connection services, but also th
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    qsh is a shell for any operating system. It is coded in java so it inherits the pros and cons of java. It is in a very nascent stage, but all the regular commands work: Directory navigation, file tasks etc.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    This serial client in JAVA allows sending, reading and writing of SMS via a serial COM port. The tool uses the PDU SMS format. IRDA drivers are included. The functionality can be implemented into applications for remote alerting or SMS authentification.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    A C# .net VT/Telnet terminal emulator. The project is still very much in development but the Terminal is quite useable and fairly tolerent. It requires a c# 2 compiler. If anyone has taken this project any further, I'd love to see the results.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    Ampare Read Books Records

    Ampare Read Books Records

    Record which book you read , how many page , status , progress and mor

    Ampare Read Books Records is a console software written in python that automatically track which book already read , how many page , status , progress , delete and more. Coming to Launchpad PPA soon . Need some help
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    Anthias is (or rather will be) an extended terminal with support for features like Command-line completion Syntax highlighting of command line Directory browsing (in the same spirit of Norton Commander, Krusader, etc).
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    Baulk is a cross-platform native application tiling management tool written in Qt4. An emphasis is made on making all major components a separate dynamic library, for modularity.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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