# Terminals privacy ratings

Terminal emulators.

| Name | Grade | Jurisdiction | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Alacritty](https://privacyratings.com/terminals/alacritty/) | B (80/100) | Unknown | Cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator configured through a TOML file, with a vi mode, regex search and hints for opening URLs. |
| [foot](https://privacyratings.com/terminals/foot/) | B (80/100) | Unknown | Lightweight terminal emulator for Wayland with a server mode, Sixel image support and low resource use. |
| [Ghostty](https://privacyratings.com/terminals/ghostty/) | B (80/100) | Unknown | GPU-accelerated terminal emulator written in Zig, using native UI toolkits on each platform. |
| [iTerm2](https://privacyratings.com/terminals/iterm2/) | B (80/100) | Unknown | Terminal emulator for macOS with split panes, search, autocomplete, tmux integration and a Python scripting API. |
| [Konsole](https://privacyratings.com/terminals/konsole/) | B (80/100) | Germany (Fourteen Eyes) | Terminal emulator from KDE with tabs, split views, profiles, bookmarks and search. |
| [WezTerm](https://privacyratings.com/terminals/wezterm/) | B (80/100) | Unknown | GPU-accelerated terminal emulator and multiplexer written in Rust, configured in Lua, with tabs, panes and SSH and serial connections. |
| [Windows Terminal](https://privacyratings.com/terminals/windows-terminal/) | C (65/100) | United States (Five Eyes) | Microsoft's terminal application for Windows, with tabs, panes, profiles for PowerShell, Command Prompt and WSL, and GPU-accelerated text rendering. |
| [kitty](https://privacyratings.com/terminals/kitty/) | D (50/100) | Unknown | GPU-accelerated terminal emulator with tabs, split layouts, a graphics protocol for images in the terminal and extensions called kittens. |
| [Warp](https://privacyratings.com/terminals/warp/) | F (20/100) | United States (Five Eyes) | Terminal from Warp with block-based command output, a built-in editor, AI agents and team features such as shared workflows. Some features require an account. |

## Criteria

- **Open source** (weight 3): Is all the source code needed to run the product public?
- **No trackers or telemetry** (weight 3): Are the website and apps free of third-party trackers, with any analytics anonymous and any telemetry off by default?
- **No ads or data sales** (weight 2): Is the product funded without advertising, ad targeting or selling user data?
- **Independent audit** (weight 2): Has an independent security or privacy audit been published within the last three years?

Source: https://privacyratings.com/terminals/