Top 8 Best Free Terminal Emulater for Mac
1. iTerm2
Term2 is a free and open source terminal emulator that offers users a robust search tool coupled with auto-complete commands, multiple panes in independent sessions, multiple profile support, several customization options, etc.
2. PuTTY
Putty is a free and open-source terminal emulator that allows you to access other machines through a host system.
Putty a client program for the SSH, Telnet, and Rlogin network models, serial console, and network file transfer tool that enables you to execute a remote session on a machine over a connected network.
2. Alacritty
Alacritty is a cross-platform terminal emulator with a strong emphasis on simplicity and performance. It uses the system’s GPU to accelerate its performance, works well out of the box and is both free and open source.
3. Hyper
SHyper is a beautiful, completely customisable terminal emulator written from the ground up in JavaScript with the aim of providing users with a beautiful and extensible command line interface.
4. Terminator
Terminator is an open source terminal app built with a focus on arranging terminals in grids. Its behaviour is mostly based on the GNOME Terminal with extra features
For regular CLI users and sysadmins e.g. simultaneous typing in arbitrary groups of terminals, tons of keyboard shortcuts, etc. and it is free to use.
5. Kitty
Kitty is a speedy, feature-rich, GPU-based cross-platform terminal emulator. It has native support for tiling multiple windows side by side, startup sessions, multiple copy/paste buffers.
Function extension via Kittens (i.e. its plugins), focus tracking, OpenType ligatures, bracketed paste, etc.
6. Mac
TermMacTerm is a powerful free and open source terminal app built as a replacement for the MacOS terminal. It supports 24-bit color, notifications, a floating command line
iTerm2 image sequences and color schemes, and standard graphics protocols, among other features.
7. Byobu
Byobu is a free and open source text-based terminal multiplexer and window manager with enhanced profiles, configuration utilities, convenient keyboard shortcuts, system status notifications, etc.
8. ZocZoc
Zoc is a professional terminal emulator for Mac and Windows platforms with an impressive list of features including tabbed sessions with thumbnails, over 200 commands of scripting language.
Communication via several protocols not excluding SSH, Rlogin, and Wse, an address book with folders and color-coded hosts, client automation with macro scripting, etc.
