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8 terminals whose code is public under an OSI-approved license, rated for privacy with evidence. Picks first, then by score.

  1. Alacritty Grade B

    Cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator configured through a TOML file, with a vi mode, regex search and hints for opening URLs.

    Apache-2.0. Source code

  2. foot Grade B

    Lightweight terminal emulator for Wayland with a server mode, Sixel image support and low resource use.

    MIT. Source code

  3. Ghostty Grade B

    GPU-accelerated terminal emulator written in Zig, using native UI toolkits on each platform.

    MIT. Source code

  4. iTerm2 Grade B

    Terminal emulator for macOS with split panes, search, autocomplete, tmux integration and a Python scripting API.

    GPL-2.0. Source code

  5. Konsole Grade B

    Terminal emulator from KDE with tabs, split views, profiles, bookmarks and search.

    GPL-2.0-or-later. Source code

  6. WezTerm Grade B

    GPU-accelerated terminal emulator and multiplexer written in Rust, configured in Lua, with tabs, panes and SSH and serial connections.

    MIT. Source code

  7. Windows Terminal Grade C

    Microsoft's terminal application for Windows, with tabs, panes, profiles for PowerShell, Command Prompt and WSL, and GPU-accelerated text rendering.

    MIT. Source code

  8. kitty Grade D

    GPU-accelerated terminal emulator with tabs, split layouts, a graphics protocol for images in the terminal and extensions called kittens.

    GPL-3.0. Source code

Compare all 9 terminals, open source or not.