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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 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 either for WinAPI or Unix PTY | |
| 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 | |
| C-Kermit | Character | Serial port | Windows, IBM OS/2 | Formerly Kermit 95,[1] successor of the Columbia.edu Kermit Project | |
| 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 | ||
| PuTTY | Character | Serial port, Telnet, rlogin, SSH, and raw socket connection | Windows, macOS, ReactOS, Linux | 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, 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 | |
| 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 |
| Yakuake | Character | Local | X11, Wayland | Unix-based | (Yet Another Kuake) a drop-down terminal for KDE |
| 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 s a shareware serial terminal emulator for macOS | |
| PComm | Character | Serial port, Telnet ? | Windows | Moxa Inc free terminal emulator for Windows |