Top 15 Yakuake Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

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 same way as Kate, KDevelop and Konqueror, relies on Konsole to offer the terminal functionality, embedding it in the application as a KPart component.

1. Cool Retro Term

Cool Retro Term 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......

2. 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.......

3. Final Term

Final Term Final Term is a new breed of terminal emulator. It goes beyond mere emulation and understands what is happening inside the shell it is hosting. This allows it to offer features no other terminal can, including: A) Semantic text menus, B) Smart command completion, C) GUI terminal controls. It brings......

4. Guake terminal

Guake terminal Guake is a top-down terminal for Gnome (in the style of Yakuake for KDE, Tilda or the terminal used in Quake). Guake is already package by a number of distribution (among them are Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu or ArchLinux).......

5. Qonsole

Qonsole "A Quake-like Console Emulator."Proudly under the MIT License.......

6. 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......

7. tilda

tilda Tilda is a Linux terminal taking after the likeness of many classic terminals from first person shooter games, Quake, Doom and Half-Life to name a few, where the terminal has no border and is hidden from the desktop till a key or keys is hit.......

8. 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]......

9. TotalTerminal

TotalTerminal A system-wide terminal accessible via a hot-key. TotalTerminal is a plugin for Terminal.app. It provides persistent Visor Window which slides down when you press a hot-key. Remember Quake Console?......

10. WinTabber

WinTabber WinTabber is a tabmanager which enables you to tab almost any window (yes, also terminals) under windows 2000/XPWinTabber is initially made to add a fully functional tab-interface to terminal programs, like a tabbed putty and tabbed cmd, but it wil work with many more programs in the near future.......

11. ROXTerm

ROXTerm ROXTerm: a full-featured VTE terminal emulator.......

12. Cathode

Cathode Cathode is a fully customizable terminal app with a look inspired by classic computers.......

13. 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.......

14. TermBar

TermBar TermBar is a terminal app that puts the command line in the Mac Menu Bar for easier access that can help alleviate clutter on the desktop.......

15. RXVT

RXVT RXVT –our extended virtual terminal– is a terminal emulator for X11. It is a popular replacement for the standard ‘xterm’.......