Top 15 Cool Retro Term Alternative and Similar Softwares | Nov 2024

Cool Retro Term (CRT) 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.

Included are an array of packaged profiles (themes) that you can fully customize to get the exact, retro look you'd like.

This terminal emulator works under Linux and OSX and requires Qt 5.2 or higher.

1. Yakuake

Yakuake Yakuake is a drop-down (Quake-style) terminal emulator based on KDE Konsole technology. Its design was inspired from consoles in computer games such as Quake which slide down from the top of the screen when a key is pressed, and slide back up when the key is pressed again.Yakuake, in the......

2. iTerm2

iTerm2 This is a fork of the iTerm project hosted on Sourceforge, the development of which has been languishing for a while. iTerm2 is a full featured terminal emulation program written for OS X using Cocoa. We are aiming at providing users with best command line experience under OS X. The......

3. Terra

Terra Terra is a GTK+3.0 based terminal emulator with useful user interface, it also supports multiple terminals with splitting screen horizontally or vertically.......

4. GNOME Terminal

GNOME Terminal GNOME Terminal is a terminal emulator for the GNOME desktop environment written by Havoc Pennington and others. Terminal emulators allow users to execute commands using a real UNIX shell while remaining on their graphical desktop.[......

5. Get Console

Get Console Get Console is the first ipad and iphone serial port terminal application providing serial terminal connectivity without jailbreaking. The app store description advises it works on network devices, but offers a standard VT100 emulation. Requires the Redpark C2-RJ45 ipad console cable to work (also available from the website)......

6. rxvt-unicode

rxvt-unicode Rxvt-unicode is a highly customizable terminal emulator forked from rxvt. Commonly known as urxvt, rxvt-unicode can be daemonized to run clients within a single process in order to minimize the use of system resources. Developed by Marc Lehmann, some of the more outstanding features of rxvt-unicode include international language support......

7. ConsoleZ

ConsoleZ console - This is a modified version of Console 2 for a better experience under Windows Vista/7/8 and a better visual rendering.......

8. Putty Tab Manager

Putty Tab Manager Windows tool for managing multiple PuTTY instances in a single tabbed window. Tab Manager allows PuTTY sessions PuTTY run multiple, known ssh and telnet client for windows in one window using tabs.is initially made to add a fully functional tab-interface to PuTTY, but it wil work with many more programs......

9. HyperTerm

HyperTerm A beautiful and extensible experience for command-line interface users, built on open web standards."In the beginning, our focus will be primarily around speed, stability and the development of the correct API for extension authors.In the future, we anticipate the community will come up with innovative additions to enhance what could......

10. PieTTY

PieTTY PieTTY is a free SSH client based on PuTTY and dedicated to multilingual (especially CJK) environments, accessibility, and simpler user interface. "Glass Window Mode" : Alpha-blending / HW-accelerated transparency & drop-shadow. Drag'n'drop scp [scp only in stable version]......

11. yeahconsole

yeahconsole YeahConsole turns an xterm into a gamelike console.This means it will slide down from top of your screen if you hit a shortcut key.(You will need xterm version 168 or higher to make this happen)......

12. Black Screen

Black Screen Black Screen is a terminal emulator for the 21st century. Unlike most emulators, it uses HTML and CSS for its UI (exactly as Atom does), which means we can stop misusing unicode characters and make a better looking terminal with appropriate tools.AutocompletionBlack Screen shows the autocompletion box as you type......

13. QTerminal

QTerminal QTerminal is a lightweight Qt terminal emulator based on QTermWidget.It is maintained by the LXQt project but can be used independently from this desktop environment. The only bonds are liblxqt representing a build dependency and the localization files which were outsourced to LXQt repository lxqt-l10n.......

14. mintty

mintty Mintty is a terminal emulator for Cygwin that is based on code from PuTTY 0.60 by Simon Tatham and team.It can be downloaded from the main site or it can be installed through Cygwins setup.exe program, where it can be found in the Shells category. The Cygwin installer creates a......

15. iTerm

iTerm iTerm is a full featured terminal emulation program written for OS X using Cocoa. We are aiming at providing users with best command line experience under OS X. The letter i represents a native Apple look and feel of the program interface, and an emphasis on complete international support.......