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Terminal-emulators projects on GitHub

Terminal emulator applications

As of , the most-starred Terminal-emulators projects on GitHub are tabby (75K stars), alacritty (66K stars) and termux-app (62.8K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 23 Terminal-emulators repositories with 696.7K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was termux-app, with +87 stars in a day.

23Projects
696.7KStars in total
+261Stars in a day
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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+87

termux-app

termux/termux-app · ★ 62.8K

Termux is a terminal emulator app for Android that gives you a Linux-like environment on your phone, extendable with installable packages.

+41

ghostty

ghostty-org/ghostty · ★ 62.3K

Ghostty is a terminal emulator built around ending the usual trade-off: the README says other emulators force you to choose between speed, features, or native UIs, and Ghostty provides all three.

+22

tmux

tmux/tmux · ★ 49.9K

tmux is a terminal multiplexer that lets you create, access, and control multiple terminals from a single screen, and detach/reattach sessions later.

+21

kitty

kovidgoyal/kitty · ★ 35.3K

kitty is a fast, feature-rich terminal emulator that renders its output on the GPU and works across platforms - it gives you a command line in a window on your desktop.

The all-time top

23 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · Eugeny/tabby

    tabby

    Tabby is a highly configurable terminal emulator, SSH and serial client for Windows, macOS and Linux, formerly known as Terminus.

    75K
  2. #2 · alacritty/alacritty

    alacritty

    Alacritty is a modern, cross-platform terminal emulator that renders via OpenGL and comes with sensible defaults while still allowing extensive configuration.

    66K
  3. #3 · termux/termux-app

    termux-app

    Termux is a terminal emulator app for Android that gives you a Linux-like environment on your phone, extendable with installable packages.

    62.8K
  1. 4

    ghostty

    62.3Kghostty-org/ghostty · Zig

    Ghostty is a terminal emulator built around ending the usual trade-off: the README says other emulators force you to choose between speed, features, or native UIs, and Ghostty provides all three.

  2. 5

    tmux

    49.9Ktmux/tmux · C

    tmux is a terminal multiplexer that lets you create, access, and control multiple terminals from a single screen, and detach/reattach sessions later.

  3. 6

    edex-ui

    45KGitSquared/edex-ui · JavaScript

    eDEX-UI is a fullscreen, cross-platform terminal emulator and system monitor styled like a sci-fi computer interface, heavily inspired by TRON: Legacy's Board Room scene. It combines a real terminal with live CPU/RAM/network monitoring and touchscreen support.

  4. 7

    hyper

    44.7Kvercel/hyper · TypeScript

    Hyper is a terminal emulator built with web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript) on top of Electron, aiming to be a beautiful and extensible command-line interface.

  5. 8

    kitty

    35.3Kkovidgoyal/kitty · Python

    kitty is a fast, feature-rich terminal emulator that renders its output on the GPU and works across platforms - it gives you a command line in a window on your desktop.

  6. 9

    wezterm

    29.3Kwezterm/wezterm · Rust

    WezTerm is a GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer, written in Rust by @wez.

  7. 10

    iTerm2-Color-Schemes

    27.3Kmbadolato/iTerm2-Color-Schemes · Shell

    A community collection of over 750 color schemes for the iTerm2 terminal, with every scheme also ported to dozens of other terminals and editors.

  8. 11

    cool-retro-term

    26.5KSwordfish90/cool-retro-term · QML

    A terminal emulator that mimics the look and feel of old cathode tube screens — a retro-styled terminal designed to be eye-candy, customizable, and reasonably lightweight.

  9. 12

    dracula-theme

    23.6Kdracula/dracula-theme

    Dracula is one of the most popular dark color themes, built around a single consistent palette that has been ported to Visual Studio Code, iTerm, Vim, Sublime Text, JetBrains IDEs, Terminal.app, Windows Terminal, Hyper, Alfred, Slack, Xcode, Emacs, Zsh and over 400 other apps.

  10. 13

    chalk

    23.3Kchalk/chalk · JavaScript

    Chalk is a JavaScript library for styling terminal output: it wraps your strings in ANSI escape codes so console text can be colored, bold, underlined and more. Around 115,000 packages depend on it.

  11. 14

    waveterm

    22.5Kwavetermdev/waveterm · Go

    Wave is an open-source, AI-integrated terminal for macOS, Linux, and Windows. It bundles a context-aware AI assistant, durable SSH sessions, and a block-based workspace with editors and file previews.

  12. 15

    xterm.js

    21.3Kxtermjs/xterm.js · TypeScript

    Xterm.js is a frontend component that lets web applications embed a fully-featured terminal in the browser. It powers the integrated terminal in VS Code, Hyper and Tabby.

  13. 16

    upterm

    19Krailsware/upterm · TypeScript

    Upterm (formerly Black Screen) is a terminal emulator that is also an interactive shell — the README calls it an IDE in the world of terminals. It is a desktop app built on Electron.

  14. 17

    solarized

    16Kaltercation/solarized · Vim script

    A precision color scheme: one sixteen-color palette (eight monotones, eight accent colors) with matched dark and light modes, built for terminals, editors and other GUI applications.

  15. 18

    blessed-contrib

    15.8Kyaronn/blessed-contrib · JavaScript

    blessed-contrib is a library for building terminal dashboards and other text-UI apps using ASCII/ANSI art and JavaScript, on top of the blessed terminal UI library.

  16. 19

    ttyd

    12.5Ktsl0922/ttyd · C

    ttyd is a command-line tool that shares your terminal over the web, letting you access and interact with a terminal session through a browser.

  17. 20

    Gogh

    10.3KGogh-Co/Gogh · Shell

    Gogh is a collection of color schemes for terminal emulators across Linux and macOS (plus Cygwin/Mintty on Windows), built to make your terminal prettier and easier to read through better contrast and color separation.

  18. 21

    rio

    7.6Kraphamorim/rio · Rust

    Rio is a hardware-accelerated GPU terminal emulator written in Rust, designed to work as both a native desktop application and inside web browsers.

  19. 22

    shell-rs

    331since2006/shell-rs · Rust

    ShellRS is a native, cross-platform SSH client that combines Xshell-style host management, tabbed terminals, a WinSCP-style dual-pane SFTP browser and SSH port forwarding in one window.

  20. 23

    claude-image-view

    234jarrodwatts/claude-image-view · TypeScript

    Claude Image View is a Claude Code mod that shows thumbnails of images you paste into the prompt, instead of bare [Image #1] text tags.

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